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The more colorful cases involve the infliction of torments on helpless patients that would excite the envy of Pol Pot.
Imagine the torments of Robert Fatty, Charles Fatone, Jennifer Bigham, or Antonio Bigas whose schooldays must have consisted largely of correcting his teacher as she called the roll.
A story on the IRS hearings (which were filled with taxpayers' stories of "Kafkaesque torments") concludes that the IRS wields too much power with too little accountability.