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The diversion will be at least partly self-defeating.
At a time when Las Vegas has become America's model of economic development, the Navajo vote may seem a grand self-defeating gesture.
If Hussein's goal is not so much to shoot down a U.S. plane as to keep the no-fly zones in the news, his strategy may be self-defeating: The LAT puts the story above the fold, but repetition is driving it inside elsewhere--page 12 at USAT , page 29 at the Post .
The NYT 's "Week in Review" has a funny compilation of stories about self-defeating behavior in job interviews.
The plan is magnificently self-defeating.