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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...
...than any specific threat, hoping to make Germans more alert to suspicious activities, and also raising pressure on any terror cells already in place. Says Rolf Tophoven, director of the Institute for Terrorism Research and Security Policy in Berlin, "Where there is no evidence, you must do things to shock terrorists in order to prevent them from acting...
...What strikes you is the magnitude of the shock. It hit me every time. You don't know if you're going to live or die. You don't know what kind of pain you're going to face. You don't know if you're going to be able to make those theater tickets on Thursday. You don't know anything. Everything that was certain 10 minutes ago is not certain...
...seaside course. When the British Open was last contested at Carnoustie in 1999, the world's top players muttered and clutched their heads like traumatized veterans. In a book about 21st century warfare published in 2002, Scottish author Gordon Lang coined the term Carnoustie Effect to describe the "psychic shock experienced on collision with reality by those whose expectations are founded on false assumptions...
...Standing in Dallas' Parkland Memorial Hospital on that unforgettable afternoon five years ago last week, Lady Bird Johnson, numb with sorrow and shock, turned to Mrs. John Connally and whispered: "Oh, Nellie, I feel that I am onstage for a part I never rehearsed." The First Lady learned her lines quickly. While her husband was al most constantly under fire, Lady Bird rarely became a target - except, perhaps, for cracks about her babyhood nickname and her Texas drawl. When the John sons had the Nixons to lunch at the White House just after the election, Pat Nixon told Lady...