Word: skills
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...more strongly support an initiative that would recognize the legality of tournament poker.” Nesson said he is studying what introducing such a more limited bill would involve. Nesson’s defense of tournament poker is grounded in the idea that the game is based on skill and strategy, like a golf tournament. “You win according to how you finish in the competition,” he said. “That just has no connection in a solid way with what people see as problem gambling.” Since founding the Global...
...England's Jonny Wilkinson is brave in defense, obsessive by nature but composed when it counts, and, of course, a deadeye. But the fact he was a star of the tournament while his Kiwi counterpart, Daniel Carter - who has every skill a No. 10 could wish for - disappeared without trace says much about where rugby is. The game's crying out for less kicking and more running. A radical idea: except where foul play has occurred, penalty kicks at goal should be permitted only from within the opposition 22. (And league has it right with its single-point field goal...
...only wonder about the motives behind releasing a record like this. Either the band is completely ignorant of their lack of any apparent skill, or they’re merely going through the motions to put the final nail in the coffin of their record contract. Either way, it’s irrelevant. From the sub-par album cover to childish song titles like “Dizzy” and “Firefight,” all the variables of a band on its last legs are in place. 2007 may be the year Jimmy Eat World?...
...Perhaps it’s that despite a degree from Harvard (in Visual and Environmental Studies, no less), Kim hardly had the skill sets and knowledge of design necessary to make it in the industry—a problem she sought to solve at at La Chambre Syndicale, the last of the couture schools in Paris...
...can’t really think of a game that’s played among a large group of people that doesn’t involve skill," he quipped. "People don’t get together and flip coins...