Word: perched
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...would say the best moment of all was when I caught a 7.5-lb. perch in my lake...
...state of Minnesota. As he says of his presumed opponent, Norm Coleman, "I?d be the only New York Jew in the race who is actually from Minnesota." For now, Franken writes best-selling Right-baiting books and hosts a daily three-hour show on Air America Radio, a perch from which he inveighs against the White House and Congress and promotes virtually any Democrat running for virtually anything...
...intuition tells me that logistical challenges arising from the overwhelming distance to the Quad and to Allston would cause the deans to defend their perch in the Yard. Yet if neither is good enough for our administrators, why should either be good enough for our student groups...
Kaavya Viswanathan did not fall, as some would posit, from the glorious perch of a published author. Kaavya’s roost was atop the same rickety tower of meritocracy that so many of us built on our way to our Harvard admission...
...relevance for the papacy achieved by his predecessor: for unifying and purifying the Church, for preaching to the world, and for inspiring the masses. In this day and age, a strictly cerebral Pope, or administrator Pope, would waste much of what can be accomplished from this unique public perch. At the same time, a merely made-for-media papacy would empty the office of its sacredness...