Word: perche
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...depth of the disbelief among those Mohammed Atta left behind in Cairo signifies the extent of the personality change required to have turned their friend into a mass killer. And yet, all are also aware of the powerful cross currents generated by Egyptian society's precarious perch at the intersection between the harsh and conflicting demands of Western modernity and geopolitics, failed Arab nationalism and Islamic extremism...
...midtown office building: Brown and two of his men held an inch-thick rope in their bare hands and, straining and skidding toward the parapet, lowered two fire fighters, one at a time, down into black, billowing smoke; each man grabbed a panicky victim from a windowsill perch. The lunchtime crowd below went wild with relief...
...lose a hundred friends in an hour. The Dow?s losses had stabilized in the 600-point range by mid-morning, and the only thing to do was to shuffle back though the smoke and the dust and an impertinent sun, back to my usual market-watching perch in front of the TV in my cubicle. Just in case the bottom dropped...
...winning way is how clear she is about her own deficiencies. Rather than pretend that she can fix problems with a paragraph, she is quick to recommend that people in real trouble get professional help. While other columnists sometimes sound as if they're writing from a high perch, Hax says her takes come from accepting her own flaws and embarrassments. When she snaps at readers to wrench their heads out of their navels, it's because she knows how self-absorbed she can be. Asked what shocks her most in her letters, she lists "the things that people...
...Helms stepping down. His wife and children want him to retire; he suffers from a host of ailments, including the peripheral neuropathy that's forced him to navigate Capitol Hill in an electric scooter; he's already scaled back his activity on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, a perch he masterfully used over the years to make life miserable for both Democratic and Republican secretaries of state. And after the first six months of this year, he had only about $263,000 in his campaign war chest - a paltry sum when you consider that he spent $14.6 million...