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THIS BUSINESS OF DERIVATIVES CAN BE TRACED BACK TO CHIcago, the old hog butcher for the world and stacker of wheat. Chicago learned it could make an easier living by selling pretend wheat and pretend hogs in the pits of the commodities exchanges. These imaginary creatures are called "futures." The point was you could buy a hog future and turn a nice profit before the real hog ever showed up. Or, if you were Hillary Rodham Clinton, you could make 100 times your money on cattle futures without ever having to put up with...
...scavengers instead, supplementing a mostly vegetarian diet with meat left over from predators' kills. Even other scavengers -- hyenas, jackals and the like -- were stronger and tougher than early humans. But H. habilis presumably had the intelligence to anticipate the habits of predators and scavengers, and probably used tools to butcher leftovers quickly and get back to safety...
Rich and Brustein, who has produced on Broadway, have had a long running feud. Rich has been dubbed the "Butcher of Broadway" because of the power of his reviews to shorten show runs...
...valid points. It's just that neither seems to grasp the brazen new mood out there represented by, among other things, all the grass- roots female backing for Ms. Bobbitt. The retail clerks who send her letters of support, the homemakers who cackle wildly every time they sharpen the butcher knife are neither "tired of hearing about victims" nor eager to honor them. They're tired of being victims. And they're eager to see women fight back by whatever means necessary. Probably it all started when Louise -- or was it Thelma? -- dispatched that scumball would-be rapist...
Last week as the trial began, the prosecution in Regina v. A and B (Two Children) -- no other identification is allowed -- told of how Denise Bulger, 25, was buying meat at the butcher in a mall when she looked down to find that her high-spirited James had vanished from her side. Only a few minutes later, as she frantically searched for him, James was walking off with two boys, his hand trustingly in theirs. The scene, captured in a hazy film on mall security cameras, was shown in court to the nine men and three women on the jury...