Word: oneupmanship
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...Mumbai Attacks Another heinous act of terrorism has been committed in India [The World, Dec. 8]. It is disgusting to observe that our political leaders, instead of rising above political lines in the fight against this common evil and cooperating in the investigations, indulge in political oneupmanship with an eye on the forthcoming elections. A great tragedy, apart from the loss of a large number of innocent lives, is the killing of the chief of the Anti-Terrorism Squad, Hemant Karkare. He was heading up the investigations into earlier bomb blasts and had started to reveal some startling information...