Word: perched
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...Tigers’ perch above the Crimson in the national rankings is unprecedented—a complete role reversal from last season when Harvard was ranked No. 12 entering the Princeton game. The Tigers feel that this year’s team is the deepest and strongest they’ve ever had, and they won’t give in easily to a Crimson team fighting to save its season...
Pakenham's obsession dates to his childhood in Oxford, where he kept watch for German parachutists during World War II from a perch in his favorite horse chestnut. But he didn't take trees seriously until 1961, when he inherited an estate--Tullynally Castle in Ireland--that encompasses several hundred acres of stately 200-year-old oaks and beeches. (Pakenham could have been the eighth Earl of Longford, but he doesn't use the title. His father was a famous politician; his mother is the biographer Elizabeth Longford; the writer Antonia Fraser is his sister...
Rarely have the cultural aspirations of a city been as neatly represented by one edifice as Singapore's are with Esplanade, the new arts coliseum the city-state hopes will become the local version of New York's Lincoln Center, London's Barbican or, considering its harbor-side perch, the Sydney Opera House. Never mind the debate over what these animalized structures most resemble?hedgehog or scarab? Porcupine or mollusk??the real issue is whether Singapore can remake itself as the "Renaissance City" the government hopes will flower on the banks of the Malacca Straits...
...past stunning vistas is a little tortuous, a small, Bedouin-run caf? offering cold drinks and chairs awaits at the top. For those with extra energy and a taste for heights, it is possible to scramble up the back of the fa?ade to the stone roof where you can perch with your feet hanging into the void. If you ask one of the guards how to get there, he will tell you it is not allowed. If you look disappointed enough, he will lead you up himself. Leave your camera with a friend?to take a photo of you that...
...Samurai sword, preparing to dispatch three more victims. She grits her teeth. The yakuza scowl back. As sword meets flesh and the three villains slam backwards through a wooden lattice, the mastermind behind the mayhem can't suppress a smile. "Pow!" exults an elated Quentin Tarantino, bounding from his perch beside the camera to congratulate Uma Thurman, the killer blonde, on a beautifully executed fight scene. "Very, very cool...