Word: skillful
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...rise of the U.S. in yet another global arena isn't sitting well everywhere. Continental critics such as John Vinocur of the International Herald Tribune bad-mouthed the team for not playing a "pretty" enough game, for being all hustle and no skill?the usual American stereotype. It's a silly comment, given the quality of the U.S. goals and the performance of European teams. Italy's dull, defensive posture isn't exactly Renaissance football. Portugal and France, the glam teams, self-destructed. And England hasn't exactly been poetry out there for what, three decades...
...hopes captured in the cheer that rings through the nation's World Cup stadiums: "Great Republic of Korea." A country often consigned to an afterthought in East Asia is out to prove that it, too, matters. Last week, it did so, by gliding through to the second round with skill and flair. That singular achievement, though, was not just about Korea's arrival as a football force but as a self-confident adult nation to be taken seriously...
...father, a rancher, was a friend of Fabio Ochoa, the late patriarch of the city's notorious drug cartel (the two shared a love of horses), Mayor Uribe was a noted crime buster there. As governor of northern Antioquia and as a Senator, he built a reputation for fiscal skill and honesty--but also for having a prickly authoritarian streak. Human-rights groups are worried that he will be too soft on the right-wing paramilitary armies, which gained strength and cocaine wealth in Antioquia under his rule. Uribe insists that he has no links to those armies...
Despite early support for the sit-in, students seemed to lose their enthusiasm for the living wage the longer the sit-in dragged on. Student opponents began to speak out against the Living Wage Campaign, and they did so with as much organization and rhetorical skill as the living wagers. They asked pragmatic questions that still remain unanswered. What are the long-term implications of a wage floor? If the University paid higher wages, wouldn’t higher-skilled non-immigrant workers fill these jobs anyway? Wouldn’t that just throw immigrants out of work...
...amazed every time I get on court with [Louisa], at her intuitiveness, skill and ridiculous ability of getting every drop and being able to fight to the next one,” Elias said...