Word: whip
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...might not think people would choose to listen to conversations in a frat house. Yet every afternoon Opie and Anthony spend four hours calling each other gay, drooling over hot moms and barraging women to "whip 'em out." It's not even a carefully constructed frat chat: an hour before airtime, six staff members, all guys, sit around watching Jackass, shooting baskets and occasionally surfing news websites. They're less like people preparing for a radio show than people waiting for a pizza...
...what O&A are most famous for is "Whip 'em Out Wednesdays," when women are encouraged to flash guys who have WOW bumper stickers on their cars, or even just the staff of a live Today show, as a listener did last summer. And while Stern has to import porn stars, O&A have little trouble finding young women to play along. "I think it gives women some power," Opie explains. When asked what he means by that, he leans his chair back against the conference-room window and says, "That's a good question. What do I mean...
...this a "simple" race riot expressing (however illegally) frustration at segregation and police harassment and unemployment? Or a bunch of thugs pumped up on testosterone and booze? Or drug dealers getting back at police? Or a master plan by white racists, after earlier riots in Oldham and Burnley, to whip up trouble in a series of northern English cities? All these explanations had their advocates. On the airwaves and on the streets, feelings were mixed - fury at the rioters, some anger at the police for weak tactics - but mostly fear that the city, already poor and sharply segregated...
...giant chessboard, with these black thunderheads advancing toward us over the water," he recalls. It seemed to defy the laws of nature. "It was so inky black inside I couldn't see the end of the boat," says Cuthbert, "not until lightning started cracking down on us like a whip...
...them does. Last May, Nevada's Democratic Senator Harry Reid succeeded in persuading Vermont Senator Jim Jeffords to bolt the Republican Party. Jeffords' switch gave Democrats control of the Senate--and promoted Reid from minority to majority whip, a perch he is currently trying to use to block the Bush Administration from putting the nuclear dump in his state. "This is wrong what they're trying to do," insists Reid. Last May, majority leader Tom Daschle flew to Las Vegas to speak at a fund raiser for Reid. "As long as we're in the majority," Daschle vowed, "[the Yucca...