At the heart of Roots lies a battle for individual autonomy, against slave owners, and then against an America intent on marginalising black people.
Behind the headline stories of brutal slaughter as Sunni militants carve out a religious state covering Iraq and Syria, there lies a battle for the water supplies that sustain these desert nations.
Hamas's security forces, who guard the coastline and pride themselves on the security they provide for Gaza's citizens, let them pass.Behind the attack lies a battle for Gaza's hearts and minds, as well as for its scarce resources.
Gladiator Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen, Oliver Reed, Richard Harris Directed by Ridley Scott R 150 minutes The Romans always could lay on a battle, and we begin with legions led by the general Maximus (Mr. Crowe) performing their catapult-and-pike routine on a mob of howling tribesmen in the forests of Germania.
In 2008, community activists struggled to be heard as the noise from the presidential race convinced voters that the fate of our nation lay in a battle between two juggernauts, and that non-partisan organizing, once the back-bone of our democracy, had become superfluous.
Behind the indictment of Lewis Scooter Libbyby lies a subterranean battle that has been taking place through much of the Bush administration between neoconservatives centered in Vice President Cheney's office and the Central Intelligence Agency.
Beside this miniature battle zone lay a pile of white golf balls with orange stripes.
In 1988, he applied his deep understanding of psychiatry to find that behind each succession battle lies a psychological drama and that the key actors usually aren't aware of it.
Between today's reality and tomorrow's vision, though, lies an international technology battle -- one that pits Mr. Denyer and others against the makers of the more costly sensors that now dominate digital cameras.
But beneath the uplifting veneer of this weekend's reunion lies an increasingly rancorous battle between the Hemings clan and some of Jefferson's descendants over who can claim the Jefferson birthright.
