But if she fails to find a fix, the standoff with her coalition partner has the potential to collapse her government.
Speaking for the first time since her former husband donned a fake suicide belt and forced a flight to be diverted to Cyprus on Tuesday, the woman who unwittingly emerged as a central figure in the dramatic standoff said her marriage to Seif Eldin Mustafa had been "a black period" in her life marked by domestic abuse.
The video goes viral and she can't take it, leading to a rooftop standoff between her desire to end it all and Max desperately trying to make her step back from the edge (without the use of her powers, too).
Mr. Sharif's wife, Kulsoom Nawaz, returned home shortly after midnight, ending the standoff and her attempt to stage a protest rally against the military government that overthrew her husband and jailed him last October.
Barbara Kopple, a documentary filmmaker who worked with HBO on "American Standoff" -- her film about the Teamsters Union that is in competition at Sundance, said she thinks that PBS and HBO understand how important and entertaining nonfiction films can be.
In Austin, Texas, Cassandra Bolin was killed last month by a Swat team after a standoff at her boyfriend's apartment building that lasted several hours.
The incident, which took place last month, gained global attention because the woman refused the officer's command to leave the mall for violating the kingdom's standards of female modesty and recorded the standoff on her phone.
Just a year after the campaign, on 23 December 2009, Clinton found herself engaged in a tense email standoff with her aide Huma Abedin regarding the correct operation of fax machines.
The Baltimore County police department confirmed late Friday afternoon that one of its officers had shot the five-year-old child of the woman they killed after a standoff in her apartment, but the department would not release the name of the shooting officer.
On Thursday, Mrs. Rell, a Republican who replaced Mr. Rowland after his resignation on July 1, met for nearly an hour at the Capitol with many of the same union representatives who were at a seemingly endless and bitter standoff with her predecessor last year.
After a 90 minute standoff, Furer made her promise not to call police, and then allowed her to leave.
