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...deal involves a complicated four-way swap of shares. Munich Re, Allianz's cross-town insurance rival in the Bavarian capital, is swapping its 40% stake in Allianz's life insurance arm, Allianz Leben, for Allianz's 17% stake in HypoVereinsbank. Dresdner is also doing a share swap with Munich Re. In the process, the center of gravity of German finance moved a step toward Munich from its traditional base in Frankfurt. "By reducing cross-holdings, Allianz and Munich Re are laying the foundation for a crucial realignment within the German financial services sector," said Allianz chairman Henning Schulte-Noelle...
Stanford linguistics Chair William Leben called Yale's propsal to eliminate their linguistics department a "big mistake...
...Everyone realizes that something has to be cut out," Leben says. "No one has the impression that we were doing extra things before that don't have to be done...
...parameters of his behavior." But not to be outdone in the philosophical merry-go-round, another general tells Converse: "Goethe said it perhaps better when he insisted that the romance of politics is best used to numb and quell the fears of the uninformed. In his definitive Aus meinem Leben he states clearly that all governing classes must be imbued above all with discipline...
...historic trade routes of Southern Europe, drinking in the influence of other cultures, Munich has always been chiefly absorbed with the manufacture and enjoyment of Bavarian Gemütlichkeit (some of which is identified by its sudsy head). It's all very apparent today, this spirit of "leben und leben lassen"-a cheery apathy and beery tolerance combined with a benign condescension toward anything German that is not also old Bavarian. The ambience of the cities to the north-those pompous Prussians-can be described in straight lines and right angles. Munich gives you embroidered corners and fanciful curlicues...