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...hubris may have been necessary when he was leading a band of trusted followers trying to outwit a military regime that wanted him dead. But it isn't helping him to line up support for his policies, says Lim Sung Ho, an expert on legislative politics at Seoul's Kyung Hee University. "Kim has a knack for fighting," says Lim. "But fighting is different from leading." The leadership deficit has been most apparent in dealing with North Korea. With the South Korean economy cratering, the flow of money and aid to a seemingly ungrateful North has irritated many citizens...
...that challenge, perhaps now Brown has earned the skill to outwit, outlast and out survive...
...Whatever you call it, the movie is a touching, irrepressibly funny fable of an elfin café waitress who surreptitiously arranges fortuitous developments in the lives of people she knows. After circumstances deny her influence over her own destiny early in life, Amélie decides to outwit fate by manipulating events to fulfill the hopes and desires of others. Populating that plot is an array of stock characters from classic French cinema, updated with comically magnified conditions, obsessions and idiosyncrasies. Amélie's jilted concierge tipples port in the presence of a pet dog preserved by taxidermy...
...sport where size doesn't necessarily equate to success, Karlen is using every inch of his frame to cover the court and every inch of his brain to outwit opponents. In front of an overflow crowd at Barnaby Courts this past Saturday, Karlen kept Trinity's Ragontse off balance with a mixture of power and finesse...
...city on an island far away in the South China Sea. With the hubris of Oedipus, the resilience of Odysseus, the wisdom of Solomon, the strength of Hercules, the flamboyance of Liberace and the physique of Santa Claus, this Newport native and self-proclaimed "fat, naked fag" managed to outwit, outplay and outlast in life's ultimate challenge. His name: Richard Hatch. The game: Survivor. The official companion book: terrible...