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Some of the 177 affiliates to the Manhattan-based Rush Limbaugh program complained last Wednesday when the cantankerous national talk show host said he endorsed the efforts of a fellow talk host in Atlanta who called for an end to women farding in their cars. Limbaugh, who is heard locally on WNTR-AM (1050), told listeners that farding on the highway is very dangerous as well as offensive to others. Not until Thursday did Limbaugh provide listeners with the meaning of the word fard, which is to paint with cosmetics.

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In the middle of a crowded street a young man would be attacked, stripped, thrashed, and left bleeding on the pavement; in fifteen seconds it was all over and the assailants had disappeared.