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...flag is a sacred, holy or religious symbol, is the worship of it idolatry? Would a flag-worshiping congregation be exempt from taxes like other churches? Should flag burning be considered desecration even if the burner does not believe it to be sacred, holy or religious? Does sacredness exist in a physical object or in the mind of the object's worshiper? There seems no end to such questions...
...rocker's artistic expression. Ideas (carefully disguised) lurk somewhere in the lyrics. All the more reason to keep criticism of them free. If ideas are too important to suppress, they are also too important to ignore. The whole point of free speech is not to make ideas exempt from criticism but to expose them...
City Council candidate Jonathan S. Myers, for example, estimates that Harvard's annual payments, based on the value of its tax-exempt land, should be closer to $6 million...
...determinedly upbeat, citing an ambitious $437 million plan for developing the East St. Louis riverfront that would include a cargo port, recycling center and high- rise apartments overlooking the river and downtown St. Louis. But no work has been done on the project for three years, and the tax-exempt status of the bonds sold to finance it is under review by the Internal Revenue Service. "I'm still optimistic," Officer insists. "We'll haul ourselves up by our bootstraps." But attorney Rex Carr, a lifelong resident of the city, has a dimmer view. "East St. Louis today doesn...
Harvard, the mayor explains, often gets a free ride from the city. Most of the University's vast land holdings in Cambridge are exempt from municipal taxes. Even with its large voluntary payment in lieu of taxes, Harvard pays the city less than a private landowner would...