Cameron and Hurd inscribe political frenzies of the time into the plot, which involves the aftermath, in the year 2029, of nuclear war.
It is true that Icahn has increased the value of many companies that he has invested in, but there are also numerous instances in which, in the aftermath of a raid, he emerges as a winner and everyone else seems to lose.
Passing swiftly over the hijacking itself (which would doubtless form the action-packed centrepiece of an equivalent Hollywood production), writer-director Tobias Lindholm lingers instead upon the excruciating aftermath in which fleetingly abrupt radio communications are interspersed with lengthy bouts of awful dead silence.
Scott Neville and David Carney copped the same for their role in the aftermath, in which a livid Popovic exchanged verbals with Sydney's coaching staff.
Camilla Long, a columnist for the Sunday Times, won it for her vivisection of "Aftermath," in which she described Cusk as "a brittle little dominatrix".
The 30-year-old was a prominent blogger during the September 2007 "Saffron Revolution" and documented the uprising led by Buddhist monks and its violent aftermath, in which dozens of peaceful protesters were shot dead.
The candidate, Mohsen Rezai, made his warning in a long statement about the election and its bloody aftermath, in which he called for reconciliation and spoke about the danger of "imprisoning" the legacy of the Islamic Revolution in divisive and shortsighted politics.
And the home front looks not like wartime but like a postwar aftermath, in which the normal instincts of a nation at war -- to rally round the flag and place trust in our leaders -- are all too easily exploited.
"I am a writer and so that is what I do," Rachel Cusk said last year, after an outraged response to extracts from Aftermath, in which she depicted her daughters' pain and denigrated their father.
Most expectations are that the conflict's current trajectory will eventually lead to the downfall of the regime of President Bashar al-Assad — but, as in Iraq, there will be a chaotic aftermath in which extremist factions would play a major role, with unpredictable outcomes and dangerous ripple effects on Syria's neighbors, especially Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey.
