Word: perched
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...this past May he clashed with India in a showdown that risked nuclear escalation; this time he curbed Pakistan's Kashmir insurgency in exchange for peace. Each time Musharraf has gambled, and so far his luck has held. "I was always a risk taker," he tells TIME from his perch in a gold-upholstered chair in the parlor of Army House, his Rawalpindi residence, surrounded by 18th century muskets and gilded sabers...
...Duterte is unapologetic about his willingness to venture beyond what legal niceties might permit. Criminals and rebels, he says menacingly from his perch at the bar, "do not have a monopoly on evil." A long, hard stare leaves little doubt that this is not idle talk. One day his methods might be unnecessary, he says. But for now, he insists on what most people from this town have also come to believe: "The only reason there is peace and order in Davao is because...
...inner sanctum, choked with chanting de- votees, is barred to nonbelievers. But it's possible to gaze down on its gold-plated lotus domes from the second-story window of the Udai Silk shop across the street. Even from the relative concealment of the silken perch, cameras are still strictly forbidden. Once a customer managed to sneak in a shot, but the telltale flash sent police running upstairs. "They grabbed the camera, and ripped out the film," says proprietor Udai. The view is free?that is if you can resist the eager sales pitch. The slightest flicker of interest...
...Palestinian terror groups. The campaign against the Jenin-based terrorists has, at the same time, presented all the dilemmas of urban warfare. House-to-house fighting is the bloodiest kind of battle, disliked by all armies. An advancing force cannot see its adversary. Every window is a sniper's perch. Alleyways and streets lead to dead ends. The adversary may be disguised in civilian dress. And disabling the trip wires of booby-trapped doors and windows is a slow process that leaves a detachment in the open street, exposed to hostile fire...
...Blow, Kennedy was obsessed with tabloid stories about himself but laughed off the ones that were wildly off base. He was sympathetic to a President--Bill Clinton--who he felt was being lambasted for his private life, and unsympathetic to Clinton's wife, who he believed was exploiting her perch as First Lady to run for office. All in all, this doesn't feel like a dishonest book (as some will charge) so much as it feels like an ever-so-carefully calculated one. --By Richard Stengel