In his acclaimed film "Moonlight," Barry Jenkins told the wrenchingly uncertain story of a gay black boy growing up in the Miami projects.
Danny Pearl's death should teach us something about our own vulnerability, about the primacy of life over work, about the need to take a deep breath before allowing competitive instincts to direct us down a dirt track toward an uncertain story on the other side of a checkpoint manned by drunken soldiers.
Facing patent expirations, product-development slowdowns, and outrage over drug prices, big pharma is among the more uncertain profit stories in health care.
In the spaces where reality becomes murky and uncertain, our own stories fill in the blanks.
As we gather this year - as 2008 winds down and we peer into an uncertain future - stories seem to be more important than ever.
Only two fatal wolf attacks on Homo sapiens in North America have been reported during the past 100 years, with perhaps a few more over the course of the 19th century (the records prior to 1900 are uncertain and the stories undocumented, often embellished and tending toward the folkloric).
This Is England, whose release date next year is still uncertain, is the story of little Shaun (played by a remarkably talented 14-year-old called Thomas Turgoose) who, after being bullied at school, finds solace and protection in a gang of local skinheads led by the charismatic but kindly Woody.
"Visa will be able to tell its story, even in an uncertain market, because its story is a good one," said David Robertson, publisher of The Nilson Report, a payment industry newsletter.
How much trust can be put in such a story is uncertain.
One moment bold and brave, the next evasive, leaving you uncertain what the real story involved.
