Shekau appeared to have weathered an attack of a different sort in recent weeks: to his authority.
Hopkins had to weather an early attack from his younger opponent, but landed more punches and managed to avoid Pascal's most powerful shots.
"I think it's important for us and the Republican Party to understand that our candidate is going to have to weather a savaging attack if Al Gore is the nominee," Mr. Bush said.
The accidents, complications and reversals that drive the movie forward — an unintended death followed by a few that are less accidental; a series of blackmail letters; foul weather; a shark attack — feel less like the usual mechanical twists than like the perverse and ruthlessly logical operations of fate itself.
On 8 April, despite bad weather, Pattle led an attack on Petrich in Yugoslavia and left a number of enemy aircraft destroyed on the ground.
Mr. Perry, who avoided debates as governor and who has never weathered a significant attack from a candidate who is more conservative than he is, is losing the contest.
While at U.C.L.A., a 15-minute drive from Riviera on a good traffic day, he played dozens of rounds at the course, enough to have picked up some of the subtleties that escaped Beljan, who weathered a panic attack on his way to winning at Walt Disney World last year as a rookie.
Although the results appear to confirm that HIV weathers a multidrug attack, the researchers did find some good news: There was no evidence that the surviving virus had mutated, which suggests that it had not become resistant to the drugs.
They use the maneuvering thrusters to stabilize the ship's orbit above the red giant, and weather another attack by the aliens, with help from an alternate Atlantis.
But the assault on Spamhaus shattered the charts, clocking in at 300bn bits per second, according to San Francisco-based CloudFlare, which Spamhaus enlisted to help it weather the attack.
