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...Cedar Mountain and Antietam next year, Gettysburg in 1988, the Wilderness Campaign in 1989 and Appomattox in 1990. In the meantime, there is no danger of peace breaking out and boring everyone. If the French and Indian War catches your imagination, there are rousing battles at Old Fort Niagara, a restored 18th century stronghold on Lake Ontario. The conflict usually re-enacted is the siege of Fort Niagara, won by the British in 1759. But, one Saturday not long ago, the Siege of Oswego (1756) was refought, and the French and their Indian allies forced a British surrender. Afterward, Harry...
...Medicaid comes up. An aide says that his administration has reached an impasse. "Impasse," the Governor says, like a finicky lexicographer emending an improper usage, "means no progress. None of that." After the meeting, in his office, Cuomo will punch out telephone calls himself. He rings the mayor of Niagara Falls. He is out. He calls his son Andrew, a shrewd 28-year-old lawyer who ran Cuomo's campaign for Governor and is in many ways his father's alter ego. The Governor mentions the name of a potential political appointee. Andrew likes the candidate and the idea. Good...
Pulling an Allnighter has a certain macho mystique that transcends the methodical regularity of daily trips to the library. It's homework with flair, the difference between slipping down the waterslide into the kiddie pool and roaring off Niagara Falls in a barrel; between strolling along the Freedom Trail and sauntering through the Combat Zone carrying an envelope stamped "BANK WITHDRAWAL...
...years ago, muscles were the most important thing," says Arnold Schwarzenegger. "People knew me for one thing, body building. They wanted to see me with the muscles. But eventually I think they will forget about the 'Body.' " Well, maybe, but they have not forgotten the Grand Canyon, Niagara Falls or any other awesome force of nature. Nor are they soon likely to ignore Schwarzenegger's biceps, which are about as big around as watermelons at harvest time, his calves, which appear to have the diameter of a California redwood, or his stomach, which seems to be made of Vermont granite...
...like the best roller-coaster ride you had when you were a ten-year- old." So says Steven Trotter, 22, of his 176-ft. plunge over Niagara Falls last week. Lying inside two pickle barrels ringed with giant inflated inner tubes and layers of fiber glass, the part-time bartender from Barrington, R.I., is the seventh known person to go over the falls and survive. Trotter, who carried a two-way radio and two oxygen tanks in the event he ran into trouble at the bottom of the falls, says he took the plunge "to get recognition as a stunt...