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...grown man sobs in the audience. The other 99 onlookers are nearly as shaken. Such is the effect of the first show of the Market Theater’s fall schedule, the U.S.-premiere of The Square Root of Minus One. Buoyed by a driven founder who happens to be a telecommunications mogul, the Market Theater is a force with which to be reckoned...
...your money where you?re comfortable with it. Get ready for a recession - we were going to get one anyway. But if you?re tempted to get too excited about the markets stabilizing at a lower level, just remember how little they have to get excited about right now - shaken consumer confidence, huge impacts on earnings, the marketing and entertainment industries (I know, same thing) walking on cultural eggshells...
...five or six more, and those still more. If the original death toll is higher--say, 168 in a truck-bomb blast--the shock waves may extend across an entire state. And when the number of fatalities reaches the thousands, the very mental health of the nation can be shaken...
...three places that were hit by the hijacked planes, New York City suffered by far the greatest emotional damage. As soon as the scope of the disaster became clear, grief counselors went on duty in hospitals and emergency centers around the city. The most severely shaken people were those who had been in or around the World Trade Center and survived the explosions. At least 300 of the injured immediately flooded St. Vincent's Hospital, and at least 100 of them, says orthopedist Andrew Feldman, who worked in the emergency room, were "over the top--crying, becoming belligerent, trying...
...suddenly, a skittish country of post-traumatic stress, shaken from what so recently seemed an unshakable bravura. Postings culled from websites (including this one) and newspapers? letters to the editor show a populace ready to spring into some yet to be determined course of action. What form that action takes has already become a potent point of debate. We want revenge, but we are torn by the idea of war - each "bomb the suckers back to the stone ages" email follows hard on the heels of melodramatic pleas to "let there be peace on earth...