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Gestures of protest have already begun. But exactly what's allowed under the International Olympic Committee's new rules on expression is somewhat murky.

Writer and teacher REYNOLDS PRICE. A native of North Carolina, PRICE has written works known for their sense of place and off-beat characters. He's a prolific and a varied writer: he 's written short stories, poems, plays, and essays, and since the publication of his first novel, "A Long and Happy Life," in 1962, he's published more than two dozen books. In 1984 PRICE was diagnosed with spinal cancer, and became paralyzed from the waist down. Cancer, though, didn't slow his writing down. In fact, self-hypnosis prescribed for pain relief, "opened a floodgate of memories," -- and materials for more stories, novels, and memoirs. PRICE has a new memoir, "A Whole New Life: An Illness and a Healing." (Ath

DAVID GARROW is a Pulitzer Prize winning author for his biography of Martin Luther King, Jr., "Bearing the Cross." His newest book is a history of the struggle for birth control rights during the 1920s and 30s and how that paved the way for the abortion rights struggle. Along the way, GARROW examines how these rights are tied in with issues of privacy and sexuality. GARROW found that the arguments used in the birth control rights struggle were the same ones used in the struggle for abortion rights. His new book is "Liberty & Sexuality: The Right to Privacy and the Making of Roe v. Wade."(MacMillan Publishin

2: Biographer LAURENCE BERGREEN. He has just written a biography of Al Capone, "Capone: The Man and the Era," (Simon and Schuster) which challenges many of America's popular beliefs about famous gangster Al Capone. BERGREEN reveals the complexity of Capone's life, by displaying more of the personal details of his life-- his married life, his role as a loving father, generous giver. BERGREEN has also written biographies of James Agee and Irving Berlin.

2: Psychologist MARY PIPHER has worked mostly with teenage girls for over ten years. She's witnessed the "oppression" of teenage girls today, more pronounced than that of their mothers because of the "more dangerous, sexualized and media saturated culture." She argues also that something happens to girls when they reach adolescence, that they lose their "assertive, energetic and 'tomboyish' personalities" to become "more deferential, self-critical and depressed." PIPHER has found greater incidents of eating disorders, self-mutiliation, underachievement and depression among her clients. PIPHER's new book is "Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls." (P

Chilean novelist ISABEL ALLENDE (ah-YEN-day). She's one of the few females in the male-dominated world of Latin American novelists. She's the niece of Chile's ousted President Salvador Allende, who was pushed out during a 1973 coup and assassinated. ISABEL left Chile after the military coup and went to Venezuela. She moved to the U.S. five years ago after falling in love with an American, and now lives in California. Her new book, "The Infinite Plan," (HarperCollins) is the first time she's set a story in the U.S. about a white American family. ALLENDE is also the author of "The House of Spirits," "Of Love and Shadows," and other novels.

2: Sports doctor ROB HUIZENGA, team doctor to the Los Angeles Raiders for seven years. He is a past president of the National Football League Physicians' Association and has written for "Sports Illustrated" and other publications. His book about his time in the NFL is "'You're Okay, It's Just a Bruise': A Doctor's Sideline Secrets About Pro Football's Most Outrageous Team" (St. Martin's Press).

Rock critic KEN TUCKER has a review of Bob Dylan''s "Greatest Hits Volume Three" (Columbia). Dylan will also be on MTV''s "Unplugged" on December 14 and 18.

Television critic David Bianculli has a review of ABC''s mini-series, "Stephen King''s The Stand," which begins Sunday.