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...could require performers to use a sound system operated by a city technician following municipal guidelines. By another 6-to-3 vote, the court threw out a $97,500 judgment won by a rape victim against the Florida Star. The small, weekly Jacksonville paper had, contrary to state law, / published the victim's name after obtaining it from a public police report. If the government has made information publicly available, wrote Justice Thurgood Marshall, those who publish it should not be punished...
Because of the July 4 holiday, The Crimson will not publish again until Friday, July 7. From that date until the end of the summer session, The Crimson will publish on Tuesdays and Fridays...
...While the heavy advances for potential best sellers have prompted some authors to fear publishers will neglect books of lesser commercial potential, the demand for new books has actually produced a greater variety at many firms. Doubleday plans to publish 18 literary novels this year by first- or second-time authors, in contrast to only two in 1986. Says literary agent Virginia Barber: "We used to get as little as $5,000 for a literary novel. Now it might sell...
...Publishers are hoping the bull market for writers will reverse itself, making authors and their agents humble again. Most of all, they talk nostalgically of the days when writers remained faithful and when publishers were not obsessed with best sellers and did not have to worry, in the words of Random House's Epstein, about "getting Faulkner on TV." Pointing to a promising first novel on his desk, he muses, "This just turned up the way these things do. But if the book is a success, we may never publish him again. His price may be too high...
...Crimson reports that University Vice President for Alumni Affairs Fred L. Glimp '50 helped Stanford President Donald Kennedy '52 to publish a letter in Harvard Magazine encouraging alumni not to vote for HRAAA's pro-divestment candidates...