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...deep within that concocted universe that Muhammad and Malvo slept in the early hours of Oct. 24, tucked into their blue Chevrolet Caprice with the sniper perch built into the trunk. They must have slept soundly, since they didn't hear federal agents and police creeping up on all sides, armed with submachine guns. Appropriately, they were seized in the same benign setting in which they had allegedly stalked their victims--a nondescript parking lot off a highway outside Washington. It is hard to imagine what castles of delusion came crashing down when the tactical team smashed in the windows...
...main restaurant at the National Hotel is traditionally Russian, with suckling pig, sturgeon, and pike perch in cream on the menu. The bonus: a lovely Kremlin view. (The diner with the shaved head and the well-cut suit, attended by aides and decorative young women, is a prominent figure in an ultranationalist political party...
...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...