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...Yeah. But not just for big's sake. Neither is this deal about building another empire or another fortune for its chief architect, Sanford I. Weill, the ever hustling CEO of Travelers. It will, of course, do those things. Since last Monday's announcement, Travelers shares have jumped nearly 10%, giving Weill incremental wealth of $123 million. That gets him to $1 billion--before stock options, where CEOs make the big dough...
...love wild things!" enthuses landscape architect Paul Comstock, 47, a gangly blond with an Andy Devine voice. Comstock is one such creature; he has drummed for rock bands as well as designed rock gardens, and he punctuates his remarks with urgent gesticulations, as if he were on strings maneuvered by a mad marionetteer. It was his job and pleasure to dress the park in 4 million trees, shrubs and grasses from six continents...
Historians' comments: "Architect of the winning strategy in the cold war"; "A decent human being with homespun virtues...
...Gurion was the great architect and builder of both. Throughout the tragic years from 1936 to 1947, while millions of Jews were rounded up and murdered by the Germans, denied asylum by almost all nations and barred by the British from finding a home in Palestine, he subtly orchestrated a complex strategy: he inspired tens of thousands of young Jews from Palestine to join the British army in fighting the Nazis, but at the same time authorized an underground agency to ship Jewish refugees into the country. As the British were intercepting, deporting and locking away these survivors...
...Clinton also appears to be their way of just saying no to Monicagate, meaning no to the very idea of making intimate personal behavior, even skanky behavior, the subject of a criminal inquiry. "I wouldn't want people probing into my private life," says Ralph Panecaldo, 60, a semiretired architect in Berkeley, Calif. "And the President is a U.S. citizen, just like anybody...