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...Buffalo Bills' comeback victory over the Houston Oilers in the 1993 playoffs. For the truly remarkable, this one has to be included. Trailing 35-0 early in the third quarter, the Bills rallied to beat the Oilers in the biggest comeback in the history of the playoffs. While one particular player does not stand out, the whole series of events that transpired was simply amazing. Houston's collapse may have aided the comeback, but Buffalo' display of determination merits a spot on this list...
...bore the return address of an iron-and-metal company in Pennsylvania. In each was a fishing-tackle box. When the latch was opened, it connected an electrical circuit and set off several pounds of dynamite surrounded by shrapnel. One bomb killed Eleanor Fowler, 56, in West Valley, near Buffalo. Another was opened by her husband Robert, 38, at his job in an armored-car garage in nearby Cheektowaga; it killed him and a co-worker. A third blew up Lazore-Lanza and her friend; she was Eleanor Fowler's daughter from an earlier marriage. And on the St. Regis...
...their earlier incarnation, the Penguins turned out players who now star in the N.H.L., like Vancouver's Pavel Bure and Buffalo's Alexander Mogilny, and the club will continue to serve as an informal farm system for the North American league. To reciprocate, the Pittsburgh Penguins are assisting the army by funding clinics and a summer camp to help develop young players. Two other N.H.L. teams are reportedly looking into signing similar deals in Russia...
...Hear, ye! Hear, ye! Let freedom ring out for all our brothers and sisters to the north!" The unlikely crier, Buffalo disk jockey Darren McKee, stands near the Peace Bridge that links New York State with Ontario, bellowing excerpts from a Washington Post article through a bullhorn to Canadians on the far shore. WXYT, a Detroit AM station, provides Canadians in neighboring Windsor with an hour-long reading of the same article. The show, seditiously dubbed "Radio Free Windsor," has a loftier purpose, according to Michael Packer, WXYT's director of operations: "It's a reminder to the American side...
Then two weeks ago, the Washington Post published a detailed account of the two murders and disclosed that there had been a third victim: Homolka's sister Tammy, 14, who like the others wound up dead after Homolka and Teale reportedly drugged and sexually assaulted her. When the Buffalo News and the Detroit News and Free Press reprinted the Post story, Canadians streamed across the border to snap up thousands of copies. They took far fewer home. Canadian customs inspectors limited travelers to one copy and confiscated the rest...