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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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 liens on the couple's house and $400,000 in life insurance policies. They'll get that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death and Taxes | 8/1/1997 | See Source »

...strategy was to document the criminal background of a number of deprogrammers and then connect them to Ms. Kisser," Jentzsch said. "She admitted in depositions that she had gone on to conduct other deprogramming and provided a conduit of evidence for other deprogrammers...

Author: By Barbara E. Martinez, | Title: Activist, Former ARCO Speaker Loses Lawsuit | 7/25/1997 | See Source »

...defense to argue that the defendant believed the actor was her father and that she had a legal right to his money. However, the $40 million that Jackson had demanded evidently struck jurors as patently avaricious. Jurors also listened to a tape of a phone conversation recorded by Ms. Jackson in January in which she haggled with Cosby's lawyer, threatening "I have offers and I will go through with those offers," apparently from the tabloid newspaper the Globe. That was about "greed, not need," claimed prosecutor Paul Engelmayer. The jury must have agreed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Autumn Jackson Guilty On Extortion Attempt | 7/25/1997 | See Source »

...broadband pipe, connecting it to a state-of-the-art chip and supplying the latest version of software, we will enhance both TV and the PC," says Roberts. To follow its own growth trajectory, Microsoft needs broadband to transmit its multimedia cornucopia of online news, entertainment and shopping. MS money now allows Comcast to accelerate construction of fiber-optic cable to expand high-speed Internet access, develop programs with Microsoft and reduce its debt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BILL GATES' PIPE DREAM | 6/23/1997 | See Source »

Clinton: I do not dispute Ms. Jones' claim that she did not engage in any improper sexual conduct, at least during the few minutes I am able to account for her activities. I deeply regret any untrue assertions that have been made about her character and good name, particularly those concerning a dollar amount that might attract her attention were it dragged through a trailer park, the settlement amount of $700,000 rendering such assertions substantially inaccurate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PAULA JONES AND BILL CLINTON: GETTING IT BEHIND THEM | 6/16/1997 | See Source »

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