Her posthumous fate, suggests Reid (who has no religious faith), seemed preferable to heaven or hell: My wife is in there, somewhere, doing practical work: her organs and tissues are educating young doctors or helping researchers outwit the disease that outwitted her.
"It really was that simple," Abu Ahmed said, smiling for the first time in our conversation as he recalled how his captors had been outwitted.
But the Dalai Lama may have outwitted them.
Having outwitted the opposition, centred in the eastern lowlands, he easily won a second term in 2009 with 64% of the vote.Yet suddenly little is going right for Mr Morales.
Still outgunned but not outwitted, protesters have been using comedy sketches, songs, art and slogans to spice up their rebellion.When the UN's observers who were supposed to be overseeing Kofi Annan's peace plan were plainly far too thin on the ground, a banner went up with the words "Special offer!
Although he did not shine last year in the country's first free elections in 44 years, Abdurrahman Wahid outwitted his rivals to secure the presidency.
The guerrillas have repeatedly outwitted it in the past 12 months, and lamentation that it needs more men and more weapons cannot explain that away.
Mr bin Laden and some of his close consorts may have outwitted their American hunters, and his foot-soldiers have for the most part donned civilian clothes.More important, for all the misgivings about his timing, Mr bin Laden has succeeded in recapturing the imagination of the Arab street.
After an early entry into China in the 1970s, the (then independent) aircraft maker thought it had outwitted Boeing when it signed a $6 billion deal in 1991 to build 150 airliners for China locally in partnership with Avic, China's state aerospace group.
The Liberals had been led to the brink of oblivion by a run of disastrous leaders, effortlessly outwitted by Stephen Harper, the Conservative prime minister since 2006.Now such talk seems premature.
Just five months before Biafra broke away he was arguing for a looser federation, and he got the promise of it, even though his fellow military governors soon backtracked, realising they had been outwitted.
