For its part, executives at Lindt, the decadent Swiss chocolate brand which saw its café transform from a scene of morning coffees into the battleground of one of the most terrifying episodes of Australian history, issued a statement saying it was "profoundly saddened and deeply affected about the death of innocent people".
If you don't maneuver nimbly through Greenwich traffic, you get squashed — preparation, perhaps, for the real-life hostilities of the Whole Foods parking lot, a notorious battleground of eight-cylinder automobiles piloted with near-comical rage by over-caffeinated women and overcompensated men.
They may also depict the world as the stage of divine action, as the realm of the diabolical, or as the battleground of these two warring forces.
See: Wuhan Incident Despite the CRG's 1967 orders forbidding violence, in July 1967 the city of Wuhan became a battleground for two large rival rebel groups - the Million Heroes and the Wuhan Workers General Headquarterss (WWGH).
But what everyone agrees on is that tiny SeaTac has suddenly become a battleground for one of the biggest issues confronting the US economy - income inequality, or the widening gap between the rich and poor, which has risen to its highest level since 1917.
Here's an interesting video that puts the issues in perspective: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-RKFS1_xyI Interestingly, this time around, Varanasi is also the battleground of India's two top politicians: AAP's Arvind Kejriwal and the BJP's Modi.
PAGE A12 RIVALS CLASH OVER TAXES As the presidential campaign entered its final days, Senator Barack Obama and Senator John McCain were making tours of two battleground states, criticizing each other for their tax plans.
Veracruz, with prime drug and migrant trafficking routes crisscrossing the state, plus a busy port on the Gulf of Mexico known for smuggling contraband, has erupted into a battleground, as two of the most powerful organized crime groups, the Zetas and the Sinaloa cartel, fight for dominance.
But in the event of a disputed election, this battleground state — one of the few that relies almost entirely on computerized voting, with no paper backup — could end up creating a far bigger mess.
A dispute between the children of Ray Charles and the foundation to which he left most of his money is the latest battleground in one of the entertainment industry's most contentious issues: the "termination rights" that allow artists and their families to recover the copyrights to their work from third parties like record companies or publishers.
