Lessons from Alice Ann

I'm sure we all remember the significance of the phrase "crossing the Rubicon".

"I must say that I could see in their eyes that they felt like they had crossed a Rubicon," Chancellor Gordon Gee said in a telephone interview yesterday. By holding on to beat Mississippi on Saturday, Vanderbilt is 3-0 for the first time since 1984. And what must make Gee most proud is that the players in his program can define Rubicon. --New York Times