May 21, 2004
The Defendant Is Charged With Good Editing
A warning: Publishing may still be hazardous to your health. A lot of angry ink has been spilled over the U.S. Treasury Department's bizarre ruling last fall that a publisher who corrected the spelling in a manuscript from Iran could be guilty of trading with the enemy and subject to serious criminal penalties -- up to $500,000 in fines and 10 years in prison. Publishers and writers were outraged. Newspaper editorials denounced the ruling. Meetings were held, letters written, lawsuits
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