Word: dwarf
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...before we hang all the dealmakers, consider the flip side. Last week financial-services giants Travelers Group and Citicorp agreed to the largest merger in history, a stock swap worth some $76 billion. It's a titanic marriage that will dwarf everything else in banking, brokerages, insurance, ATMs, cold calls, lollipops, hamburgers and chutzpah. It makes the size of the next biggest merger, the pending $42 billion deal between MCI and WorldCom announced last October, look cheesy...
European artists created architectural wonders that shame America's cities. European politicians are setting agendas for welfare reform that will dwarf what the Clinton administration has accomplished in its six years. And Europeans have preserved the safety of their cities, where crime rates are lower than those in the U.S. by orders of magnitude. In short, the Europeans already have much of what Americans would like to have...
Brown's annual distribution of $686,406, Cornell's $480,000, the University of Pennsylvania's (Penn) $474,900 and Columbia's $460,000 all seem to dwarf the Harvard Undergraduate Council's Finance Committee's $126,500 outlay. Princeton's midyear budget of $26,000 and Yale's $44,000 seems to pale in comparison...
...conflict between the University and the Swedenborgians is a little more complex. The parishioners are concerned that the construction of the new Harvard office building will dwarf their small chapel and keep light from streaming through their stained glass windows (Harvard denies that the structure will be so intimidating). Of course, there's nothing new in the idea of the commercial and secular overpowering the sacred; a look at Manhattan shows us any number of churches dwarfed by skyscrapers, and even on Fifth Avenue, it's not clear that St. Patrick's Cathedral is any taller than Bergdorf Goodman. Well...
...Harvard will not only offend the primarily (not to say historically) domestic character of the neighborhood, but will destroy whatever green space is left in the rear of the beautiful early 19th century mansions (both under protection of Architectural Preservation) still standing on Kirkland Street. Moreover, it will completely dwarf and enshadow the charming little Swedenborgian Church, already diminished by the huge Gund Hall at its side...