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...wrapped around intense ambition. Like President Clinton, Paxon started dreaming about a career in politics at a young age. The son of an elected county judge and a mother active in the state G.O.P., he grew up in the rural town of Akron, N.Y., 25 miles east of Buffalo. By the time Paxon was a teenager, he was volunteering on the campaigns of local G.O.P. candidates and subscribing to the National Review--proof that he was conservative way before it was cool. The turmoil of the late 1960s only hardened his political views; when the 130 high school seniors...
...Lonesome Dove. The core of it is a moody, valedictory view of Southwestern Indians at the time just before and just after the Civil War (which appears only as a distant commotion). Comanche raiding bands in Texas are beginning to starve because whites to the north have slaughtered the buffalo herds. The author develops a couple of minor figures we've met before, the fearsome chief Buffalo Hump and a quizzical tracker named Famous Shoes, who are among the best characters in the entire saga. A mad subplot involving a Central American sadist and a crazed New England scholar...
...glitches aboard the Mir space station [SPACE, Nov. 3] and seeing its diagrams and its massive, complex structures, I think space exploration is scary. Whatever happened to the classic, simple space vehicle? Is it possible that we are in over our heads with all this complicated technology? TORRE CATALANO Buffalo...
...Grand Slam, TBS, 7:05 p.m. Buffalo at Miami, ABC, 9 p.m. NHL Hall of Fame Induction, ESPN2...
...arrests and three convictions behind him. In Jamestown he seems to have used his urban of-the-street credibility to impress the disaffected girls he picked up in local parks. Chautauqua investigators believe in some cases Williams may have bartered drugs for sex. (Williams' grandmother Eleanor McCrae told the Buffalo News she believed he contracted HIV from a homosexual in a youth detention facility in New York City...