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DISKARTE – try translating this to English. What do you get? 

Intelligence? Strategy? Wit? Quick thinking? Street-smart? Resilience? Almost. But not quite.

You see, Diskarte is one of the many innately Filipino traits that’s quite difficult to define in just one word. It touches on the combination of these mentioned words, and then some. Merriam-Webster and Oxford may fail us in this respect, so instead of looking through those pages, we try to read between the lines. To make it more understandable in the English language, Diskarte can be summed up as: 

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The Purefoods Star Hotshots evened out their win-loss record with a 90-82 victory over gutsy expansion club Blackwater in PBA Philippine Cup action on Tuesday at the SMART-Araneta Coliseum.