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Hard-core federal income-tax resisters are frequently in the news, but a recent spate of them for some reason involved dentists. In October, Ed Brown and his dentist- wife Elaine ended their nine-month standoff in Plainfield, N.H., when a federal marshal tricked his way into their compound and arrested them. (They had vowed to die before paying the federal government any of Elaine's $1.9 million in unreported income.) In October, dentist Nancy Montgomery-Ware was convicted on two counts of tax evasion in Tampa, Fla., after having asserted for years that the federal government has no authority over her taxes or her practice. In October, Slidell, La., dentist Louis Genard was found guilty on three tax-evasion counts, despite his having renounced his U.S. citizenship and declared himself an "ambassador of heaven" who is exempt from federal taxation.

Community activist Steven Myrick, 41, was convicted in October of a rape in Torrance, Calif., that had gone unsolved for seven years. Myrick had called attention to himself during a public housing demonstration in which he mooned police officers and was arrested (and a subsequent DNA test tied him to the rape).

What Goes Around, Comes Around: Police in Bakersfield, Calif., came to the aid of a man and a woman at the bottom of the Panorama bluffs near town and told reporters later that the man had attempted to toss his girlfriend over the cliff but that she grabbed him, and the pair tumbled down 300 feet together (and that he was hurt worse than she).

Police in Bakersfield, Calif., came to the aid of a man and a woman at the bottom of the Panorama Bluffs near town and told reporters later that the man had attempted to toss his girlfriend over the cliff but that she grabbed him, and the pair tumbled down 300 feet together (and that he was hurt worse than she).

Police in Mesa, Ariz., reported that a man in a black Chrysler sedan pulled up to a Burger King worker on the street late one evening in September and, at gunpoint, took the uniform he was wearing.

Donald Turk, 48, and two associates were charged in Lake Elsinore, Calif., in September with kidnapping Turk's girlfriend, whom Turk was trying to push out of his life because she annoyed him. His plan, allegedly, was to take her to Mexico, drop her off, and hope that she would not return home. However, she was back several hours later, demanding that Turk pay off the cab driver who had driven her from the border. Arrested with Turk was a 47-year-old pal nicknamed "No Nose" because he has a hole in the middle of his face as the result of a gunshot. Said police Det. Joe Greco, "(This case) is like something out of a Quentin Tarantino movie."