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...Julius Caesar faced as formidable an opponent as Draper (especially after battling a horde of brutal Engineers the previous day), he never would have crossed the Rubicon...
...tried to put his worries aside and concentrate on a 10,000-meter race in Phoenix on March 3 of this year. Describing the event as a "no-excuses race," he saw it as his personal Rubicon. He could not get across; Salazar trundled over the finish line in eighth place. During a postrace TV interview, he almost broke down. His confidence seemed destroyed. He was having trouble sleeping. "I used to be able to put my head on a pillow and, bam, I'd sleep like a rock for eight hours," he said wanly. "But for the past...
...first day in Jerusalem, I could sense that Israel had crossed the psychological Rubicon; it was at least thinking about moving to the west of Quneitra, beyond the pre-1973 defense line. The grudging Israeli procedures, the interminable sessions, the innuendoes about duress, the Talmudic precision, the obvious anguish of our interlocutors created an atmosphere compounded of petty irritation and a strange kind of exaltation at witnessing a people baring its soul so nakedly. It obscured the fact that crabwise, in a manner least calculated to get it credit, the Israeli Cabinet was extending itself to overcome its nightmares...
...whatever level, from the street to the throne, that he cannot act when the larger realities of the world require him to risk lives and fortunes. For all the President's bluster and fuss over three years, he has not taken a single real step across that Rubicon of power, where there is risk, where the solution lies in moving determinedly ahead with no lines of retreat to the old comfortable campground of the status...
...ready to address the crowded chamber. After three months' tireless, tenacious work on behalf of the Panama Canal treaties, he was in a mood for Shakespearean rhetoric. "There is a tide in the affairs of men, which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune," he declared. "The Rubicon of decision on the treaties is now to be crossed...