Corrections from the last week.

Corrections from the last week.

Corrections from the last week.

Slate's mistakes.
Oct. 7 2005 11:41 AM

Corrections

In an Oct. 5 "Chatterbox," Tim Noah misstated Jane Roe's real name as "Norma Corvey."

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In an Oct. 5 "Supreme Court Dispatch," Emily Bazelon incorrectly cited cocaine as an example of a Schedule I drug under the federal Controlled Substances Act. Cocaine was used as an example of a Schedule I drug at oral argument. However, it is a Schedule II drug because it has an accepted medical use as a topical anesthetic and so can be prescribed by a doctor.

In an Oct. 4 "Today's Papers," Jay Dixit incorrectly stated that the Iraqi Constitution will fail only if two-thirds of all registered voters reject it. In fact, it will fail only if two-thirds of the registered voters in any three provinces reject it.

In the Sept. 30 "Gallery," four photographs by Edward Burtynsky were originally misidentified. The titles have since been corrected.

In a Sept. 30 "Jurisprudence," Emily Bazelon incorrectly identified two judges. Janice Rogers Brown was identified as Janet Rogers Brown, and Consuelo M. Callahan's first name was misspelled Consuela. Also, she originally omitted the fact that Alice M. Batchelder received her J.D. from the University of Akron in 1971. And she incorrectly stated that a Virginia law that Karen Williams voted to strike down in 2000 required the Sons of Confederate Veterans to put the Confederate flag on the group's customized license plates. The law in fact prevented the group from putting the Confederate flag on its license plates.

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