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...started during the Lake Placid Olympics in '80, when I first saw a short segment on biathlon and it seemed like the coolest winter sport ever (skiing with a rifle on your back - come on!). After the '84 Sarajevo Games my friend Erik suggested that we train for the Calgary Olympics, and the idea caught on. We set about to educate ourselves, but in the pre-Internet 1980s it was tough to find any information about the sport, so we just made it up, happily skiing around the hills in southern Oregon with rifles on our backs, using the wrong...
...tune with only a few words, is more of a playful number. The epic "Daughter of the American Revolution" rounds off the album's quartet of songs. Throughout the album, Ensimismada remain listenable, without the off-the-wall sounds or unintelligible lyrics that affect too many student bands. B+ -Erik A. Beach...
...team we saw last week would never have allowed the Saints' Erik Anderson to get loose in the slot all night and easily amass six points, including his first hat trick of the season...
...Captain Erik Anderson--3 goals, 3 assists...
DIED. LARS-ERIK NELSON, 59, audacious columnist for the New York Daily News for nearly two decades, who also worked for the New York Review of Books, Reuters and Newsday; of an apparent stroke; in Washington. Nelson was an old-school journalist who never missed a deadline, but he had a fanciful streak--he taught himself to play guitar on a long flight back from Latin America with Henry Kissinger (later, he picked up the balalaika). He also spoke fluent Russian and used it to interview Soviet dignitaries during the cold war--and to nettle the English-only reporters...