Corrections from the past week.

Corrections from the past week.

Corrections from the past week.

Slate's mistakes.
Nov. 12 2004 12:37 PM

Corrections

In a Nov. 7 "Today's Papers," David Sarno incorrectly spelled the name of Illinois Sen. Richard Durbin.

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In a Nov. 8 "Fighting Words," Christopher Hitchens incorrectly referred to Robert Ingersoll as "Ralph" Ingersoll.

In a Nov. 8 "Politics" piece, Richard Ford misstated the percentage of voters for Kerry, as well as Bush's margin of victory. Forty-eight percent voted for Kerry, not 49 percent. Bush won by a margin of 3 percent, not a margin of 1 percent.

In a Nov. 9 "Supreme Court Dispatch," a typo in one sentence referred to "the federal wiretap statute" in this sentence, as opposed to the federal wire fraud statute, which was at issue in the case.

In a Nov. 10 "Left Field," Felix Gillette stated that the International Paralympic Committee does not enforce its own rule on the length of prosthetics used by sprinters. The IPC has no rules about the length of prosthetics. Another governing body, the International Sports Organization for the Disabled, does. The article also mistakenly attributed to sprinter and prosthetist Brian Frasure the belief that the IPC should start enforcing leg height restrictions. Finally, the statement that a prosthetic called the C-Leg was introduced last year was incorrect. It debuted in 1997.

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