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Although more Americans had been killed in the 1996 KhobarTowers attack, and many more in Beirut in 1983, the overall loss of life rivaled the worst attacks in memory.
Today it is still very much complete, rivaled only in size and grandeur by Russia’s St. Petersburg.
Thirtysome entries flowed in, for consideration by a jury of 14 experts whose diverse national and professional backgrounds rivaled even the crew of Star Trek --ranging from Baron Philippe Robert-Jones, art historian and permanent secretary of the Academie Royale des Sciences des Lettres et des Beaux-arts de Belgique in Brussels, to Guido Crapanzano, rector of the Instituto di Scienze della Comunicazione in Milan.
In a desperate commingling of self-abasement and self-interest rivaled only by Kathryn Harrison's memoir of French-licking her father, Joyce sold the story of her 1990 breast-augmentation surgery to Self magazine.
In ancient times Corinth rivaled Athens in its power and influence.