Word: perched
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...good at executing our race plan down to a ‘t’. We just kept our composure and stuck it out to the very end.”Dartmouth did claim victories in both freshman races to take the Biglin Bowl from its usual perch in Newell Boathouse. Harvard has the chance to defend another cup win next weekend, as the lightweights travel to Annapolis with their heavyweight counterparts to take on Navy in the annual Haines Cup races. “If you’re not pushing yourself to go faster every week...
...irony is that all this fluff and fribble are arriving just as more women are getting serious about wine. That's the real news, says wine auctioneer Ursula Hermacinski, author of the forthcoming Wine Lover's Guide to Auctions. From her auctioneer's perch, Hermacinski sees more women raising bidding paddles and crashing the largely male club of wine collectors. "At each new auction, there seems to be a new female face, bidding on her own, for her own account, as opposed to holding her husband's or boyfriend's paddle," says Hermacinski. "At the last auction there...
...parliamentary reporters, however, it smacks of a government that wants to keep the press at bay. They have been stationing themselves in a gallery opposite the entrance to the Cabinet room for at least 30 years. Journalists say that being barred them from their regular third-floor perch means they no longer have a chance to approach (i.e., shout questions at) the meeting's participants and that ministers who want to avoid the press will be freer to do so. "It's a concrete example of how the Prime Minister's Office is trying to restrict and control which members...
Newspapers cannot cover a community from some lofty perch, unresponsive and above the fray. Journalism at its best brings reporters to the disparate and the dirty, the lawmakers and the lawbreakers—and then brings those stories to the readers. We are a part of our community, and we must engage that community. We hope this column is a positive step in that direction...
...wasn't always so forbidding. For thousands of years during the last Ice Age, when it was possible to walk from Tasmania to Papua New Guinea, water was everywhere, with a series of five large, interconnected lakes and 14 smaller ones offering a rich larder - mussels, golden perch and cod, as well as marsupials and water birds - for communities camped on their shores. As the lakes receded and were refilled, prevailing winds layered sand and clay on their eastern shores into giant crescent-shaped dunes, or lunettes. And by the time the lakes dried permanently about 16,000 years...