Crash, meanwhile, persuaded a host of struggling writer-directors that if they could dream up three or four hardboiled vignettes set in the same city and coax some B and C-list actors to give up a couple of weeks each, they would end up with something that might seem, from a distance, respectable.
Unlike Mr. bin Laden, who had no discernible program beyond ousting infidels, the terrorists Mr. Bush is beginning to take on are players in a host of other struggles, old and new, with broader political appeal.
And most of us will experience a whole host of struggles as we move through life.
That is the logic behind the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), a host of targets in the struggle against global deprivation, disease and illiteracy, set by the world's leaders at a United Nations jamboree in 2000.The goals claim to convert campaign slogans into bankable pledges, complete with a number and a date.
A bright opening apart, the Crusaders were woeful for the first half-hour, making a host of basic errors and struggling to contain a Wigan side that looked visibly sharper than last year, despite fielding only one change to their line-up from 2009's play-off defeat by St Helens.
It's fitting that it marks that landmark with a birthday gig featuring a host of artists who would struggle to find radio play elsewhere, from Anna Calvi's austere post-PJ Harvey gothic blues to Graham Coxon's twitchy art-pop and Gruff Rhys's whimsical folky psychedelia.
Mayoral appointees directly control the airport, police department, water system and a host of other agencies, and a struggling private sector offers few competing sources of power.
Luckily for them, a host of other Eastern teams are struggling at the moment, which means the Red Bulls haven't been cut adrift... yet.
The chancellor, Alistair Darling, is expected to use next week's budget to announce a host of measures to help the struggling manufacturing sector, including carmakers.
Royal Bank of Scotland, Britain's taxpayer-controlled bank, will face a flood of tough decisions in 2012 over whether to seize ownership or pull the plug on a host of British employers that are struggling to meet their borrowing commitments.
