Word: jujitsu
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...Serbs have found an amazing solution: they feel sorry for themselves. They marinate in self-pity. In their own minds, they have solved their formidable moral problem by declaring themselves the injured party. An artful, if disgraceful display of jujitsu; this is a tactic one encounters in wife beaters and child abusers, who ingeniously manage to convince themselves, if not the authorities, that they were driven to it by the terrible behavior of their victims. A filthy conscience often goes to hide in the refuge of self- pity...
...reduced threats Clinton must pass the threshold test: Can Americans trust him as Commander in Chief? Better, then, to lay some markers down early, especially when his critique and prescriptions are essentially centrist. There is also the possibility for an elegant piece of what Mario Cuomo calls "political jujitsu" -- stealing your opponent's thunder in an area he is perceived as owning...
...almost proprietary about the Japanese. As Columbia University historian Carol Gluck says, "The Japanese depended on depending on the Americans, and the Americans depended on being depended upon." Today the Americans have a disconcerted sense that their relationship with the Japanese has been turned upside down. History has performed jujitsu on the American idea of itself as hero and overlord...
...jujitsu the money," Wellstone said, meaning that he had to turn Boschwitz's 7 to 1 monetary edge against him. To this end, Wellstone's ads constantly played on this underdog theme; one ad depicts Wellstone racing through a thirty-second biography, explaining that he has to make the most of his time because of his lack of money...
...attacks on the news media. "The Democratic Party has found its Spiro Agnew," wrote the conservative columnist George Will last week, recalling the press bashing by the bilious Vice President. This time what failed for Hart in the spring may be his biggest political asset. "He is using journalistic jujitsu," said Mark Green, a former speechwriter and aide. "Now when the press asks Hart a prying question, it makes the audience like Hart more and the press less...