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...that was before taxpayers had to face what some veteran accountants are calling the Tax Season from Hell -- a three-month ordeal climaxing with this week's rush to meet the April 17 deadline for filing tax returns. The Internal Revenue Service, under pressure to root out more fraud -- and more revenue -- has sharply stepped up the number of returns it rejects and audits. While encouraging taxpayers to file electronically-mainly to save irs manpower and paper work-this year the tax collectors returned, often for minor clerical errors, fully 20% of the 9.9 million electronic returns submitted through late...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE POINT OF NO RETURN | 4/17/1995 | See Source »

Excluding the cattle-like trolley ordeal, the Freshman Formal was great and satisfied most attendees. "I was impressed. I'm surprised the UC managed to do anything of this sort," Shawn T. Samuel '98 admits. The UC man behind it all, Gregory M. Heestand '98, remarked during the Formal, "I'm really pleased with how it's going. We have a very good turnout. Everybody seems to be enjoying themselves, and that's what we wanted to provide...

Author: By Sharon C. Yang, | Title: Prom II | 4/13/1995 | See Source »

Baker posted a number of stories, including "A Day at Work," "Gone Fishing" and "Pamela's Ordeal." These stories are fantasies of abduction, torture, sodomy, rape and murder of young women...

Author: By Douglas M. Pravda, | Title: 'Net Case Raises Free-Speech Debate | 2/18/1995 | See Source »

...story "Pamela's Ordeal" involved two men who broke into the apartment of a young woman, whom they tied, gagged, mutilated and sodomized, before burning her alive...

Author: By Douglas M. Pravda, | Title: 'Net Case Raises Free-Speech Debate | 2/18/1995 | See Source »

...great day in sports. Sure, the fans were the biggest losers in this whole ordeal. Harry Sinden said it himself. But they always are, so let's get used...

Author: By John C. Ausiello, | Title: Fans? Sports Don't Care | 1/13/1995 | See Source »

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