Word: gamesmanship
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...there is a degree of unwillingness to identify racism, when it occurs, for what it is. Juan José Paradinas, who writes about soccer for daily newspaper El País, says insults at soccer games - even when targeted at a player's race - are merely examples of aggressive gamesmanship, intended to distract opponents. "It's like calling someone fat or ugly, a dwarf or an idiot," he says. "People use whatever physical characteristic they can to provoke someone." Carles Viñas, author of The World of the Ultras: Spanish Football's Rad-icals, disagrees. "There...
...from 66% when the first substantive military mission was sent there in February 2002. (An earlier contingent of Canada's secretive special-forces unit, JTF2, arrived in late 2001.) Canada's subsequent participation in the ISAF force based in Kabul was regarded as a piece of shrewd North American gamesmanship: former PM Jean Chr?tien, who had angered Washington with his refusal to participate in the Iraq war, was able to claim that Canada's Afghanistan commitment made it impossible to send Canadian soldiers elsewhere in the Middle East. Since then, including this month's toll, 10 Canadian soldiers...
...short film, “The Perfect Human,” along an arbitrary set of hindrances that Von Trier had put forth, including restrictions on shooting locations, lengths of frame, even choice of medium. Leth went along with the proposition and was roundly commended by critics for his gamesmanship and the fairly watchable results in the face of the Von Trier hurdles...
...game against Richmond. The Big Green dropped the next two, and hasn’t won a game in which Morrison hasn’t appeared. Dartmouth does not have her listed as a probable starter for this Saturday on its athletics website, although the move could just be gamesmanship from the Big Green...
...last week's mission, Marines and Iraqi soldiers began to relax the checkpoints they had set up around the city. The military gamesmanship in Ramadi and Fallujah gave the U.S. useful information about the insurgents but certainly did not eliminate them. Company commanders know it will be a long struggle and that this is only one piece of it. No single battle can settle everything...