Word: perched
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...Guard are rallying behind Ohio Congressman John Boehner as a replacement, while younger conservatives are talking up Indiana's Mike Pence. Also considered likely to run are Arizona's John Shadegg and Jerry Lewis of California, who has a formidable power base by virtue of his perch as chairman of the Appropriations Committee. As rank-and-file Republicans fight about who will lead them, it will be with an eye over their shoulder to see where the Abramoff investigation is going. Whereas they once had an almost blind faith in the judgment and invincibility of their leaders, "for the first...
Knocked from its perch as the chief U.S. intelligence agency when Congress created the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the CIA is focusing on the critical task of planting human spies. President Bush told Goss a year ago to hire 50% more spooks "as soon as feasible." Sources say Goss's plan is to go back to basics: hide more spies posing, for example, as cultural or economic attachs in embassy-based CIA stations, and reopen stations that closed when the cold war ended. Camp Peary, the CIA's secret training center in eastern Virginia, runs...
...simple, in both elegant and rather clumsy ways,” said Miller. The advantage of this minimal differentiation is that not much of a structural hierarchy can be identified. Luckily, the CGIS is not a pyramid, even though the Center for American Political Studies gets a fourth floor perch, while—for example—the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies sits just one story above street level. Out in the garden, stout little glass pyramid nudges its way between two wooden houses. A rather awkward allusion to I.M. Pei’s glass pyramid...
...renovation will reopen the Malibu villa that houses its antiquities. John Walsh, the museum's director from 1983 to 2000, says the Getty once had "a certain intellectual and moral position which was, ironically, brought about by its financial freedom." Things have changed. The museum still occupies its lofty perch in the hills. But, says Walsh: "the Getty is losing the high ground." --Reported by Jeanne McDowell/Los Angeles
...From its strategic perch on the edge of Siem Reap's burgeoning bar scene, the imposing, Art Deco-inspired La Paix formally launches the architectural career of Bill Bensley. The landscape designer behind the much-admired gardens and terraces at the Four Seasons Chiang Mai, Bensley proves that his talents extend to bricks and mortar here, with a massive glass dome that awes on arrival, as well as 107 guestrooms that exude understated chic and come equipped with luxurious rain showers (perfect for washing off any dust accumulated during your rambles through Angkor Wat). Evenings should be spent dining...