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...Rubicon Foundation...
...completed in 1827, Niagara Falls became the first frontier town on the way West. By the time the New York Central came in 1858, it was one of the rip-roaringest burgs in the U.S. Floozies and fakes, barkers and con men made the Niagara the rube's Rubicon. "Indian chiefs"-chiefly from Ireland-plied a brisk trade in white pebbles, which they hawked as "congealed Niagara spray." The cries of "hackmen, photographers and vendors of gimcracks," wrote a horrified Henry James, "at times drown out the thunder of the cataract...
Flood: "That is where you are heading for failure. You command nothing. You have come to the Rubicon. Very, very soon in South Viet Nam you are at the end of the line. You have to make up your mind very soon, General, that you are going to command, or you are not going to command. If you are not going to command, you are a dead duck; you cannot win. If you decide you want to command and they will not let you command, get out. You are a dead duck. You cannot win. Make up your mind...
...sembles the New England weather - if you don't like it, wait a minute. After two days of conferences, Prince Souvanna conceded that a "millimeter" of dissension had arisen over the allotment of the 19 Cabinet posts, but added cheerfully that the conferees had "almost" crossed the Rubicon, and "we've found it only a tiny stream." Hours later, the tiny stream looked as wide as the Mekong. A final meeting to sign the formal agreement broke down...
...million tribesmen were killed and another million taken prisoner, Warner's account of the campaigns is curiously bloodless. All the other facts are equally familiar-the First Triumvirate, the attempt by Pompey and a senatorial faction to curb Caesar's growing authority, the crossing of the Rubicon and the outbreak of civil war, Pompey's flight and Caesar's mastery of all Italy. By couching his narrative in the first person, supposedly in the hero's own words, the author tries to capture the view from Caesar's head...