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...interest for taxpayers on the board. He is expected to put those sentiments on the record during congressional hearings on the plan, set to start Tuesday. In a multiple sound-bite show of support for the new system, House and Senate committees will be hearing a series of taxpayer horror stories calculated to make the evening news...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Congress Proposes Private-Sector Audits of IRS | 9/16/1997 | See Source »

...wander as a stranger. Today a famous person--Arnold Schwarzenegger, say, or Sylvester Stallone, those universal action figures whose films require the fewest subtitles and therefore address masses most eloquently in remote cultures--might go anywhere on earth and never be a stranger. Is that desirable? Or a horror? Such planetary recognition may be as dangerous, in a different way, as being an unknown alien once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A NASTY FAUSTIAN BARGAIN | 9/15/1997 | See Source »

...There's no end to the horror stories, unless you're going to the airport. Then you get the best service in the world," she added...

Author: By Adam S. Hickey, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cambridge Taxi Rates May Increase, Matching Boston's | 9/12/1997 | See Source »

...have heard all kinds of horror stories about people trying to get cabs," said City Councillor Henrietta A. Davis, who chairs the traffic and transportation committee...

Author: By Adam S. Hickey, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cambridge Taxi Rates May Increase, Matching Boston's | 9/12/1997 | See Source »

...world for me. I learned so much about other cultures. It is a wonderful teacher. I feel there is something to learn in even the dumbest shows." (Goodness knows, there are certainly enough of those.) The only shows she doesn't want her children to watch are the horror shows. Otherwise, says Delmar, "I'm trusting my kids to make the right choice. I'm hoping this philosophy works." So far, it seems to. Ashley, who's partial to Doug on Nickelodeon, is president of her student government, and Steven, who likes ESPN and The Dick Van Dyke Show, does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TV OR NOT TV | 9/8/1997 | See Source »

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