Amid evidence of international disarray over how to handle the crisis, the UN chief bluntly told President Bashar al-Assad to implement the six-point peace plan being promoted by Kofi Annan, though many consider it already effectively dead in the face of rising violence.
BAGHDAD, Iraq, Tuesday, Oct. 26 - Iraqi officials opened an investigation on Monday into the role played by infiltrators in the ambush on Sunday that left 49 Iraqi National Guard trainees dead in the face of growing indications that insurgents are being given inside information about the movements of Iraqi security forces.
This inbuilt survival mechanism is most commonly known as 'fight, flight or freeze' and it puts your mind in a state of high alert, and your body in a state of protection – preparing you to lunge forward, leap backward, or play-dead in the face of a real or perceived threat.
The resulting one-and-a-half hours of delirious flesh-chewing fun – a hot-blooded genre pic called Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead – flies in the face of the golden rules of making shoestring-budget productions (in other words few actors, a bare minimum number of locations and no elaborate effects).
More frequently, though, the history is of a private nature: a veteran of World War II remembers a moment when he stood on a bridge and saw a couple emerge from the woods, naked; a woman suddenly glimpses her long-dead brother in the face of a corpse; another woman tells a lover she can hear the previous occupants of rooms talking in the walls.
The first was "The Mothman Prophecies," which also, come to think of it, starred a middle-aged actor as a cocksure professional mourning his dead wife and, in the face of great skepticism, receiving messages from the other side.
Gates meets people trying to live by the proverb "better dead than ordinary" in the face of financial instability.
In an era of increasingly complex and convoluted mass surveillance systems, some argue that "privacy is dead", impossible to protect in the face of rapid technological advancements.
"The question was, should we not play and mourn and honor our dead, or was normalcy in the face of this disaster the best response?" the Rev.
I thought my despair at our heedless adventure in Iraq had bottomed out, but "Bound, Blindfolded and Dead: The Face of Revenge in Baghdad" (front page, March 26) brought a new and deeper wave of revulsion.
"Bound, Blindfolded and Dead: The Face of Revenge in Baghdad" is a stark reminder of why we must remain engaged in Iraq.
