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...Islamists and Baathists are not necessarily even working together - U.S. officers cite widely divergent levels of skill and professionalism in the attacks they encounter every day. Some involve skillful planning and use of weapons such as mortars, surface-to-air missiles or remote-detonated bombs assembled with some expertise; others simply involve young men bearing rifles or RPGs firing wildly before scattering...
...heart of "one country, two systems," but was hardly invented for Hong Kong. It has been in use for decades inside China, where just about everybody has been told they are entirely free, though everyone understands that "free" means "free to concur." In China, successful bureaucrats master the skill of accepting control from above while pretending to be independent...
Former Red Sox pitcher Bill Lee also said Rose’s skill on the baseball diamond outweighed any dishonor he may have incurred by gambling...
...Toobin recalled being floored by Rose’s skill as a child...
...contest in wry perspective. And we do get caught up in their fates. Implicitly, Blitz seems to be asking but not quite answering this question: What's the point of all this? The ability to spell is a sign of neither virtue nor brains. It's just a skill some people develop and some don't, and the national spelling bee is, in its genteel way, rather like Survivor, a pseudo event engaging real emotions...