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CONCORD, N.H.: That was no suicide, says librarian Shirley Barron. That was my husband, driven over the edge by the IRS in its attempt to collect $330,000 in back taxes, penalties and interest. Remembers Barron: "He didn't sleep very well. He was nervous and fidgety. He lived on Maalox." Armed with a telltale suicide note (the IRS "sits, does nothing, and watches you die"), Ms. Barron now hopes to collect $1 million in compensation under a recent tax law amendment designed to keep too-passionate IRS agents at bay. Undeterred by feelings of guilt, the taxman has slapped...
...less media-saturated than the U.S. The actor won a court order to prevent Playgirl from distributing any more copies of its August issue, which features two-year-old snapshots of him sunbathing in the nude with then girlfriend Gwyneth Paltrow. Unfortunately the judge did not order Playgirl to collect the 300,000 or so copies that were already in subscribers' mailboxes and on newsstands, thus creating a publicity bonanza for the flesh mag. Pitt is pursuing a lawsuit, despite the fact that the images are available on the Internet. Meanwhile, straight from the file marked Tales of the Expected...
...fray and loving it. Tuesday, Clinton was offering political cover to legislators who support hiking Medicare premiums for wealthy seniors. "I would be happy to defend the vote of any member of Congress, Democrat or Republican, who votes for this," Clinton said. He also proposed that the Treasury Department collect the premium increases rather than the IRS, so that seniors don't get confused and think they're faced with a tax hike. "It's very important now to complete the job and get a balanced budget agreement," Clinton told reporters. "We've now come back and offered them another...
...Europa and drop a 20-lb. sphere onto its surface. Striking the frozen crust with the force of a suitcase full of TNT, the cosmic cannonball would release a mushroom cloud of ice particles into space; the mother ship would then fly through the crystalline mist, collect a bit of it and carry it back to Earth for analysis...
...sides were always fighting. When the ranchers were ready to move a herd, for instance, they didn't stop to think what a thousand hooves would do to the tiny sponge traps scientists use to collect invertebrates from beaver ponds. Seeking detente, Lohr and Trampe started talking, and each was surprised by the other's willingness to learn. They began having long discussions about agriculture and the environment. Lohr saw that the area's century-old cattle-rotation system--driving the herds into the high country in summer while growing hay on the valley floor--meshes with the natural ecological...