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...running out of time to pull off what would be a miraculous legislative victory. House G.O.P. vote counters are quite gloomy about his prospects. "When they pulled the vote back this week, it meant Tom [DeLay] couldn't do it," says a House veteran referring to the majority whip's famous ability to cajole. "It means he won't be able to do it next week either." The White House has a different tally. It thinks it will win this week. It has either vastly overestimated Bush's powers of persuasion, or the President is about to exceed expectations...
...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...