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...July 3 Obara purchased a chainsaw, cement mix and other tools from a hardware store. That afternoon, the manager of Obara's seaside condominium in Miura called police to report a tenant who was behaving suspiciously. Even in the terse language of police reports leaked to the media, the scene that afternoon at Obara's apartment has a Hitchcock-like caste. Obara had cement mix on his hands when he greeted the police at his door. Suspicious, they asked to look around his apartment. Obara consented, but then became agitated when the police asked to look in his bathroom. When...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lucie Blackman: Death of a Hostess | 5/14/2001 | See Source »

...happily drive out through Jackson, up over the incredible Teton pass (hammering the little chainsaw engine they put in this pipsqueak car as it tries in vain to find the right gear for going 70 mph up a 10 percent grade). I savagely step on the gas and dare it to blow a gasket, reveling in the guilt-free/worry-free magic of a rental car. I come over the hill into Idaho, not really knowing what to expect. To my left are the shining Rocky Mountains, sun glinting down through the clouds, a tremendous early spring day. To my right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fool on the Hill | 5/10/2001 | See Source »

...spot Cliff Robertson and Sally Kirkland... Cathy Moriarty and David Hasselhoff. Weird Al Yankovic here.... Peter Fonda there. I notice Michael Bolton dodging Darva Conger, and I see Amanda Plummer arrive with her beau Tobe Hooper, director of "Texas Chainsaw Massacre." It's like watching 20 years of "Entertainment Tonight" compressed into two hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Doing the Oscar Bash | 3/26/2001 | See Source »

From a personnel viewpoint then, Bush's reversal seems to be questionable business practice. Yet in our competitive capitalist society it is sometimes worthwhile for employers to undercut their employees. I'm not referring to Chainsaw Al. Bush cites Department of Energy statistics about the increased cost of electricity to consumers as his reasoning for deciding not to regulate emissions, judging (I would assume) that the cost of the energy policy would be greater than the cost of undercutting his appointee...

Author: By Erin B. Ashwell, | Title: President Bush's Hot Air | 3/19/2001 | See Source »

...HUPD officers responded to a noise complaint in the Carpenter Center at 11 p.m. An individual agreed to stop carving a totem pole with a chainsaw...

Author: By Garrett M. Graff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Best of the Harvard University Police Log 2000 | 12/13/2000 | See Source »

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