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Domesticated animals such as dogs are chattel in our society. You own a dog. You do not merely hold guardianship over it. However, dogs are not without rights. I cannot go out, buy a dog, and then use the dog to demonstrate the power of my new chainsaw. If I were to perpetrate such a heinous act, I would be brought to court and would face criminal charges. The dog’s interests, then, would be represented in court by the district attorney. Now, if a dog has the right to be represented by a human, how much more...
REVENUE RECOGNITION The SEC says its No. 1 line of inquiry is into the ways that companies book their sales. The most glaring example of revenue fraud occurred at Sunbeam five years ago. (The company's infamous former CEO, "Chainsaw" Al Dunlap, just last month settled a shareholder suit stemming from his stint at the small-appliance maker.) Sunbeam recorded the sale of gas grills and other goods well before they left the warehouse. Many of the items never did get shipped. By offering retailers deep discounts to place orders months before they normally would and by booking those sales...
...York Times bestseller list. What was originally supposed to be a little project culminating in 4,000 paperbacks has become a run of 70,000 hardcovers and a book tour. Oct. 16, he stopped by Harvard Square to sign books and paraphernalia—including the occasional chainsaw or two. Wordsworth Books hosted the event and, as a special treat for Campbell fans, joined up with the Brattle Theatre to combine the book signing with a special showing of Evil Dead 2, the acclaimed masterpiece of his troika...
...Bradford’s stories recount fantastical episodes involving dogs, but many of the stories involving humans are tinted with magical realism and bizarre turns of events. “Chainsaw Apple,” for instance, is a deeply unsettling and deliciously satisfying story concerning a woman whose face is disfigured by a man who tries to carve her initials into an apple she holds in her mouth. In “Bill McQuill,” the narrator nonchalantly informs us, “The train had run Bill over just below the waist, cutting...
...REMOVING FRONT COMPARTMENT A remote-control device--sort of a giant chainsaw--will attempt to slice down through the sub, severing the 65-ft. front compartment. There have been conflicting reports on the presence of unexploded torpedoes in this area...