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...United States Supreme Court yesterday reversed, 6-3, the finding of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court that John Cleland's Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure is "obscene, impure, and indecent" and may not be sold in the Commonwealth...
...bill of complaint, filed yesterday by Gerald Berlin, Bowles' attorney, Bowles alleged that the oath was in viclation of the first, ninth and fourteenth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution, and Articles XII and XVI of the Deceleration of Rights of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts...
...have to pay Massachusetts' new three per cent sales tax on books you need for your courses -- if the Commonwealth can figure out by April 1 how to tell the books you need from the books...
...sales tax bill, passed by the Legislature March 2, says that "instructional materials" are exempt from taxation. But a survey of Square bookstores yesterday revealed that the Commonwealth has not yet explained which books will be considered "instructional." A Massachusetts Tax Commission official confirmed yesterday that the State hasn't come up with a definition...
...would not be put in jail, and the University's land would not be attached," Pusey said, if the Corporation simply overlooked Bowles' refusal to sign the oath. But such action would endanger the good relations between the University and the Commonwealth that have been established over the last 150 years, Pusey said...