Back in the fifth-century B.C., Sun Tzu advised military leaders to take high ground to ensure victory, in The Art of War. In second grade I got seven stitches playing "King of the Hill." I was willing to lay all 90 pounds of my being on the line for temporary claim of the playground's snow bank.
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