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Ralph Waldo "Petey" Greene (Don Cheadle) found his calling in jail where he was permitted two daily 20-minute spots as a disc jockey on the prison's public address system. In that unlikely context, he primitively pioneered something akin to the now ubiquitous shock-jock style. With the help of a straight-arrow program director named Dewey Hughes (Chiwetel Ejiofor), he pretty much elbowed his way into a job at WOL-AM, a near-moribund Washington, DC radio station, whose audience was basically black and basically fed up with conventional broadcasting...
...cancer patients, which is to eat a variety of vegetables and fruits everyday," says Marji McCullough, director of nutritional epidemiology at the Society. "We do encourage people to eat tomatoes and tomato products because they may reduce the risk of certain cancers, but we recommend that in the context of a diet rich in a variety of deeply colored vegetables and fruits. Until we know more, it's sensible to include tomatoes in the diet." For now, though, just don't expect to see that advice on your grocery store shelves...
...youth [in Nazi Germany], augmented by scholarship, taught him to fear." Deng Xiaoping cleared Tiananmen Square by force in 1989 in part because of vivid memories of the luan, or chaos, caused by rampaging Red Guards; Nazi Brown Shirts would have made a similar impression on Kissinger. Given this context, it's easier to comprehend the striking degree of empathy Kissinger displayed following the Tiananmen crackdown. "No government in the world would have tolerated having the main square of its capital occupied for eight weeks by tens of thousands of demonstrators," he noted - and then counseled everyone return to business...
...CONTEXT Instead of going for a full-fledged pardon, President Bush commuted Scooter Libby's sentence, leaving the fines and criminal record intact but keeping him out of prison...
...CONTEXT Clinton notoriously issued 140 pardons on his last day in office, including one to tax evader Marc Rich--whose lawyer at the time just happened to be Scooter Libby...