Many live in countries embroiled in conflict.
Consider the bare outlines of "Defiance's" pilot: A stranger rolls into a frontier town, meets the sly, kindly madam at the local saloon and the well-intentioned mayor, and before he knows it, he's embroiled in various efforts to keep the local peace.
In 2000, still embroiled in his political campaign efforts, he was also said to be critical of some of the company's acquisitions that year, although it did land "In the Bedroom," one of the year's biggest independent hits and a top Oscar contender.
As the credit markets froze and investors panicked, he found himself embroiled in a frantic effort to stabilise the huge, triple-A-rated conglomerate.
With China policy embroiled in political scandal, and efforts to gain fast-track trade negotiating authority under fire, it seems a perfect time to launch a low-cost, high-publicity initiative on Africa.
Henry Kissinger's observation, made during the Vietnam War, should be haunting Hezbollah, the Middle East's most capable guerrilla force, as it becomes embroiled in an increasingly costly effort to save the Assad regime.
The move comes as Mr. Icahn is embroiled in a $10 billion hostile takeover effort with South Korean tobacco company KT&G.
In the neighbouring kingdom of Bahrain, Gulf Air is embroiled in its third major restructuring effort in a decade while Bahrain Air, a low-cost carrier, has just filed for liquidation.It was not always this way for Gulf Air.
After narrowly surviving the financial crisis, during which it bought some remnants of Lehman Brothers, Barclays got embroiled in a series of scandals, including efforts to rig a key interest rate, the LIBOR.
