08 September 2012 In a brief Tuesday about ongoing The patent covers a method of the company reported in 2011 relative A map that accompanied yesterday’s violence surrounding illegal strikes distinguishing between one-fingered to that of Colombia’s state-run oil report on separatist or independence in South Africa, the Associated Press scrolling on a touch-screen device and company, Ecopetrol. Petróleos de movements in Africa mistakenly erroneously reported that police and two-fingered gestures like pinching Venezuela reported a 2011 accident showed the same text for Morocco and security guards fired rubber bullets to zoom out of an image. It does not rate several times greater than Libya. The entry for Libya should have and tear gas at sacked gold miners at a cover the pinch-to-zoom feature Ecopetrol’s, not nine times greater. said that there are calls for autonomy Gold Fields mine. The clash took place itself. The error was repeated in an for the eastern province of Cyrenaica, at Gold One International’s mine. Gold article on Monday about the case’s An article on Monday about Mitt neglected by Tripoli. Fields spokesman Sven Lunsche said effect on innovations in technology Romney’s style of campaigning an ongoing strike of 12,000 workers at and it appeared again on Tuesday in misstated the amount of power used An article on Friday about a tentative Gold Fields has been peaceful with no an article about the possibility the by floodlights at a campaign rally in deal by Japan to buy three uninhabited clashes. decision could move Apple closer to a Hobbs, N.M. They were 18,000-watt islands that are part of a chain at the fight with Google. floodlights, not 18,000-kilowatt. center of a heated territorial dispute 04 September 2012 with China misstated the year the Pakistani High Commissioner to 31 August 2012 An article on Tuesday about United States, which seized the islands Malaysia Masood Khalid has clarified A comment piece on the nature Congressional efforts to limit military in World War II, returned them, along that Bina Puri Sdn Bhd is carrying out of political speeches ahead of the spending on biofuels misstated with Okinawa, to the Japanese. It was a RM846 million road project between forthcoming party conference season the percentage of the Defense 1972, not 1971. Karachi and Hyderabad in Pakistan. misdated a speech in which Goebbels Department’s budget for improving It had been inadvertently stated in our exhorted German citizens to summon energy use in field operations that 07 September 2012 report headlined “Pakistan projects up their last energies for “total war”. It the Pentagon is seeking to spend on An article on Thursday about farmers in the offing” last Thursday that the was made in 1943, not 1945. biofuels in the next fiscal year. It is who are being pitted against oil and project linked Karachi with Hyderabad almost seven percent, or $107 million gas interests in a race for water in in India. A report on the sentencing of Anders of the $1.6 billion budget request – not drought-stricken areas misstated the Behring Breivik after his trial for four percent. number of gallons of water the city of An article on Saturday about the killing of 77 people in July Greeley, Colorado, will rent to energy Republican lawmakers and candidates 2011 wrongly referred to the judge 29 August 2012 companies this year. It is on pace to who are distancing themselves from Arne Lyng as “she”. Lyng is a man. An article on Tuesday about Mitt rent 586 million gallons of water, not Representative Paul D. Ryan’s budget The same mistake was made when Romney’s views on economic policy 58 million gallons. plan misstated the age at which referring to the Swedish politician misstated the title of a book he wrote recipients would be affected by his Ali Esbati in the online version of the outlining his vision for the country. It We overstated the unemployment rate Medicare proposal. It is for people article. is No Apology, not No Apologies. in Greece in saying it had “soared currently under 55, not 55 or younger. to around thirty percent” (Eurozone An article about the Saltire prize An article on Thursday about efforts demands six-day week for Greeks, 5 A map on Sunday with the challenge, the renewable energy to preserve the traditional sound of a September, page 23). The latest official continuation of an article about the competition launched in Orkney this caste of hereditary Muslim musicians rate, for June, issued by the Hellenic hurricane-battered Plaquemines Parish week, said estimates suggest that tidal in India misstated the distance Statistical Authority this week, is 24.4 on the southeastern tip of Louisiana and wave power around the Scottish between two villages, Raneri and percent. located Venice incorrectly. The town islands could generate 38,500 gigawatt Hamira. It is about 100 miles, not 200. is on the west bank of the parish, not hours a year, equivalent to three coal- A Sept. 2 Page One article about on the east bank. fired power stations as large as Drax in In the report ‘GM seeds banned after the troubles of the Italian banking North Yorkshire. The potential output “failures”’ (August 20), we said that industry incorrectly described the The General Motors plant in from tidal, wave and wind machines the government of the Indian state European Central Bank’s policy on Janesville, Wis., which was mentioned for the area is 38,500 gigawatt hours a of Maharashtra had withdrawn the accepting Italian government bonds by vice presidential candidate Paul year. It is the nominal capacity of these licence of Mahyco Monsanto Biotech as collateral. Many private lenders, Ryan in a speech at the Republican machines, 11 gigawatts, that equals (MMB). This withdrawal has in fact but not the ECB, have refused to take National Convention last week, three times that of a power station affected Mahyco Ltd, a different legal Italian bonds as collateral, thus driving stopped production of GM sport-utility such as Drax. entity, in which Monsanto is a 26 per up funding costs for Italian banks and vehicles and laid off about 1,100 of its cent minority shareholder. weakening their financial positions. 1,200 workers on Dec. 23, 2008. About The Affile Journal article on 110 workers continued reporting for Wednesday, about the fascist 28 August 2012 6 September 2012 work after that date to fill an order for sympathies of a village east of Rome A news story on Monday about gun An article on Monday about the a number of medium-duty commercial that were highlighted recently with purchases was unclear on a legal issue free-speech advocacy of Alexander trucks that GM assembled for Isuzu the unveiling of a memorial to one surrounding “straw purchasing,” Macgillivray, Twitter’s top lawyer, Motors. Assembly of the Isuzu trucks of Affile’s most controversial former in which a person buys a gun for misstated the response of Google, stopped in April, 2009. A Convention citizens, Rudolfo Graziani, a general someone prohibited from possessing another technology company wrestling Journal article Friday about the under Mussolini whose nickname one. If a person states during a gun globally with the concept of free controversy over whether Mr. Ryan “the Butcher” was earned during purchase that he is the “actual buyer” expression, to the theft in China of implied President Obama was to blame Italy’s colonization of North Africa, but is not, that person has acted proprietary code that was used to hack for the closing incorrectly said the misidentified the year in which Italy illegally. into Gmail accounts of human rights plant was closed Dec. 23, 2008. invaded Libya and misidentified activists. Google redirected Chinese- the Italian leader at the time. The An article on Aug. 16 about Hezbollah, language search requests to its Hong Equatorial Guinea’s Teodoro Obiang first invasion occurred in 1911, not the militant Lebanese Shiite political Kong site after the 2010 hacking; Nguema Mbasogo is the longest- 1921. And Italy’s prime minister was organization that is considered a it did not withdraw from China. serving leader in Africa. A World Giovanni Giolitti – not Mussolini, who terrorist group by the United States (Engineering, advertising and other News article Thursday about political assumed power in 1922. The article and Israel, quoted incorrectly from operations remain there.) protests in Africa incorrectly said also referred imprecisely to the Italian a statement by Hassan Nasrallah, Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe is invasion of Ethiopia in 1935. It was the the group’s secretary general, about United Nations Secretary-General Ban the longest-serving leader on the first successful invasion of Ethiopia, the adverse effect that a similar Ki-moon criticized Iran’s policy on continent. (World News: Youth not the first. (The first Ethiopian blacklisting by European countries Israel at an international conference, Protests Shake Politics Across Africa) invasion, in 1895, failed.) would have on Hezbollah. Mr. while Egyptian President Mohammed Nasrallah said, according to a BBC Morsi criticized Iran’s policy toward 03 September 2012 A headline on Thursday about Monitoring Service transcript, that it Syria. A World-Wide item on Friday In the next five years English farmland banks’ progress in providing relief to “would dry up the sources of finance, incorrectly said that Mr. Morsi is expected to rise in value by more homeowners as part of a settlement end moral, political and material criticized Iran’s policy on Israel. than a third, not by more than two- for foreclosure abuses described the support, stifle voices, whether they thirds as an editing error led an beneficiaries incorrectly in some are the voices of the resistance or the Wal-Mart Stores Inc. says that if article to say. The article also said editions. They are mortgagors, not voices which support the resistance, it were to cut one second off of its Savills is predicting an annual rise mortgagees. pressure states which protect the average customer checkout time in in UK farmland prices of 6% up resistance in one way and another, and the U.S., it would save $12 million in to 2017, when it should have said a An article on Tuesday about a Texas pressure the Lebanese state, Iran and cashier wages per year. A Business rise of between 5% and 6% a year official who warned of civil unrest Iraq, but especially the Lebanese state, & Finance article on Saturday about (New investors plough cash into UK if President Obama is re-elected in order to classify it as a state which the retailer’s experimental mobile- farmland, 27 August, page 20). misstated a proposed property tax supports terrorism.” Mr. Nasrallah checkout system incorrectly said that increase in Lubbock. The increase is did not say a European blacklisting the company spends $12 million a 02 September 2012 1.7 cents, not 1.7 percent. (The plan “would destroy Hezbollah. The second on cashier wages. A picture caption last Sunday with increases the property tax to 34.6 cents sources of our funding will dry up an article about the increasing use of per $100 valuation from 32.9 cents.) and the sources of moral political and A photo caption with a Sept. 5 Metro “written by” credits in documentaries material support will be destroyed.” article about communal gardens misidentified where the director Joe An article on Thursday about (That incorrect quotation, which helping refugees reconnect with Berlinger’s “Paradise Lost” films are Representative Paul D. Ryan’s has been widely attributed to Mr. their farming traditions incorrectly set. It is Arkansas, not Kansas. acceptance speech at the Republican Nasrallah and has been repeatedly described the sequence of the National Convention on Wednesday cited in congressional testimony and photographs. The photos are reprinted 01 September 2012 night misidentified the speaker who elsewhere, is based on a paraphrase of here with a corrected caption. An article on Friday about a court received a somewhat subdued reaction the actual quote.) decision blocking Texas from when he said, “Our president is not 05 September 2012 enforcing its voter identification being true to our values.” It was An obituary on May 14 about the An article on August 8 about Brazil’s law misidentified the plaintiff in Senator John McCain, who spoke photographer Horst Faas referred successful effort to raise its profile in a separate lawsuit challenging the earlier in the evening – not Mr. Ryan. incorrectly to a famous picture of Africa through an array of aid projects constitutionality of a section of the Vietnamese children fleeing a napalm and loans described imprecisely the Voting Rights Act. The plaintiff in that An article on Saturday about the pistol attack, an image selected by Mr. location of Angola, which has reached case is Shelby County, Ala., not the used by a man to kill a former co- Faas for worldwide transmission a new security agreement to train its state of Alabama. worker in Midtown, using information when he worked as a picture editor military personnel in Brazil. Angola is from the police department, misstated for The Associated Press. While the on the west coast of southern Africa; it In the article, “War of words on the the number of rounds that the pistol planes that carried out that attack is not a West African nation. origin of words” (August 30, Science held. The .45-caliber semiautomatic were “American planes” in the sense & Technology), Telugu was incorrectly pistol, one of the more lethal handguns that they were made in the United Citing China’s State Administration referred to as an Indo-European on the market, held 7 rounds, not 8. States, they were flown by the of Work Safety, Xinhua news agency language. It is a Dravidian language South Vietnamese Air Force, not by said accidents in China killed 75,572 derived from the stock of family 30 August 2012 American forces. people last year. A Business & Finance of languages known as Dravidian An article on Tuesday about a barrage article Tuesday about the Chinese coal languages. of criticism against the Venezuelan 27 August 2012 industry’s safety record incorrectly government’s management of the An article about ice melt in the Arctic gave the figure as 75,512 and said An article last Saturday about Apple’s state-run oil company, Petróleos referred to research published in the deaths had occurred this year. victory in a patent lawsuit against de Venezuela, following a deadly Nature which “said that warming in (See: China Coal Sector Still World’s Samsung described incorrectly explosion at the country’s largest oil the Antarctic, where temperatures Deadliest – September 4) one Apple patent that was at issue. refinery misstated the accident rate have risen about 1.5C over the past 50 2

years, is ‘unusual’ but not unprecedented An article on August 15 about the appointment 19 August 2012 Corrections and relative to natural variation”. To clarify: the by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of an An article last Sunday about fears among research in Nature refers to warming in an old army friend from a rival political party as advocacy groups that the tentative progress Clarifications • area of the Antarctic peninsula, which is itself home front minister for Israel misidentified made in protecting some women in April to September 2012 only a small part of the continent. the rank of Amnon Lipkin-Shahak, a former Afghanistan from abuse may be undone as chief of Israel’s military, at the time he retired. the West’s focus begins to shift elsewhere Google Inc. plans to restart the Korea-based He was a lieutenant general, not a lieutenant misstated, in some editions, the year of the Corrections and Clarifications is version of its YouTube service following colonel. founding of one such group, Women for an ongoing publication, an edited a court ruling that a law requiring South Afghan Women. It was 2001, not 2007. compilation of daily revisions, Koreans to use their real names on Internet A reporting credit last Friday with an article retractions, re-wordings, distinctions forums was unconstitutional. An article about the lengthy stay faced by the WikiLeaks 18 August 2012 and apologies to print news from about the ruling in the Friday-Sunday edition founder Julian Assange in Ecuador’s embassy The caption with a photograph showing work September 2001 to the present. A incorrectly implied that YouTube wasn’t in London misstated, in some editions, being done on a wind turbine in the East reverse-chronological catalog of available in the Korean language. YouTube the given name of a freelance writer who China Sea, said the installed capacity of grid- lapses in naming and classification, can be accessed in the Korean language via contributed from Stockholm. She is Christina connected wind power in China had reached of tangled catchphrases, patterns versions of the site for other countries. Anderson, not Christine. 52.58m kw. To clarify, kilowatts should be kW of mis-speech and inflection, rather than kw, but the figure would have been connotation and enumeration. University of Virginia professor David A. 23 August 2012 better expressed as 52.58 GW. Martin’s position on President Obama’s non- An article on Friday about the anger toward deportation policy was misstated in Friday’s American foreign policy in the Middle East An article on Friday about the United States’ The relentlessly populist so-called editions. Mr. Martin said that allowing a that is felt by Egypt’s new president, as well growing imports of Saudi Arabian oil entrepreneurial mobilization incited, proactive case-by-case review of illegal as by many of its new military leaders and misstated the average number of barrels of inciting once again in this run up immigrants younger than 31 will mean that ordinary Egyptians, misidentified a college Saudi crude imported daily in the first five to the interminable, unavoidable when immigration authorities encounter them, attended by the chief of staff of the country’s months of last year, according to Energy U.S. presidential election marks they will have affirmative proof that they are armed forces, Gen. Sedky Sobhi, and his Department estimates. It was 1.15 million a continuous stream of linguistic allowed to remain in the country. boss, the new defense minister, Gen. Abdul barrels, not 1.15 million billion barrels. battery, backtracking, and side talking Fattah el-Sisi. It is the United States Army – a simultaneous dumbing down and 26 August 2012 War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, not the 17 August 2012 shying away from anything implying An article last Sunday on the state budget National War College in Washington. The headline of an article about international the eventual necessity of limiting stated incorrectly that state lawmakers in 2011 aid on June 30 said the British taxpayer recklessness, usury, catastrophic deferred spending on Medicaid instead of The Saturday Profile article, about Dani was giving Pounds 7,500 to each of 2,250 speculation. The opposite of which making cuts to that program. While they did Dayan, the leader of Israel’s settler households – equating to some 11,000 people has been generalized to class warfare defer spending, it was in addition to cuts to the movement, misstated the number of judges in a village in Ghana to lift them out of and drumbeat alongside the vitriol program and in provider rates. on a government-appointed commission poverty. of race fear, once again, and still, that recently declared the entire settlement In fact, as the article stated, only Pounds to resounding effect. Stark cynicism The cover article on Aug. 12 about the Baikal- enterprise in the Israeli-occupied West 11.5million of the Pounds 17.2million is being parading as stark optimism. The Amur Mainline railroad (BAM) that traverses Bank to be legal, contrary to international donated by the UK, and the five-year project rapturous language of private Siberian wilderness north of the Trans- opinion. There are two judges, not three. (The aims to help 30,000 people in all. advantage extracted as public Siberian Railway misstated the price for the commission’s third member, Alan Baker, is consensus from what was once called hydrofoil service across Lake Baikal between an expert on international law and a former An Associated Press article on Monday about public good, recast in the image of Irkutsk and Severobaikalsk from June to Israeli ambassador to Canada, but he is not a a collision on Sunday between an American our indefatigably pioneering, DIY-ing August. It is 4,200 rubles, not 42,000. judge.) guided-missile destroyer and a Japanese oil spirit. tanker in the Strait of Hormuz described 25 August 2012 The Economic Scene column on Wednesday, incorrectly the New Orleans, one of two ships Into the noisy, barren landscape of Two versions of a story about a former Navy about finding a fairer way to ration health care involved in another collision in the strait, in such speech and informationalism, SEAL who wrote a book about the raid that in the United States, misstated the results of a 2009. The New Orleans is an amphibious this is a newspaper without headlines, killed Osama bin Laden were included in government study on health care expenditures. transport dock, not an amphibious assault allowing such doubletalk to talk Friday’s editions. An Associated Press story The study, by the Department of Health and ship. to itself. Perhaps what is conveyed was included with the local news report Human Services’ Agency for Healthcare unintentionally, and by repetitious and a version from Reuters appeared in the Research and Quality, found that 89 percent A feature about tourists returning to the mistakes, is more revealing, Nation&World section. of health care expenditures were accounted Kashmir Valley said just 22,000 people visited more historically identifiable, and for by the 30 percent of Americans who use in 2008, frightened off by the insurgency substantially less conciliatory than it An article in yesterday’s edition on the health care most heavily, not by the wealthiest against Indian rule that had begun in 1989. is meant to be. This is both fortunate Panama Canal said that President Carter 30 percent. That figure related only to foreign tourists. and inevitable. passed it on to the Panamanian government Official figures put the total number of tourists in 1999. President Carter agreed the transfer An article on Friday about the rapid expansion that year at more than 570,000 (16 August, With purely editorial credit to those of ownership in 1978 but the process of of China’s giant state-run media companies in page 24). who have provided the material for transferring control took until 1999. Africa misstated the portion of a $200 million this publication by having seen fit to ring road project in Nairobi, Kenya, that is An article on Thursday about oil drilling on correct themselves, or having seen 24 August 2012 also being financed by the Chinese. They are the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in Montana themselves fit to correct others; who In a story August 23 about “insider” attacks financing part of the project, not all of it. misstated the name of a mountain near the have sought in some public way to by Afghan soldiers or police on U.S. and reservation. It is the Rising Wolf Mountain, offer apologies or clarifications – allied troops, The Associated Press reported 22 August 2012 not Running Wolf Mountain. to redeem, reveal, revise, retract, erroneously, based on information provided by A report on the rise of kidnapping in Lebanon or shift, to simultaneously claim, the Pentagon, that twenty-five percent of such referred to the secret Sykes-Picot agreement The current century was misstated Thursday deny, and reattribute blame and attacks dating back to 2007 could be linked to between the British and French in 1916, which in a story on Page 1D. It should have said that responsibility. Credit is due for these the Taliban. Army Col. Thomas Collins, the carved up the Levant into spheres of influence cloistered nuns are a phenomenon rarely seen well-documented efforts to apologize chief spokesman for coalition forces in Kabul, in the wake of the Ottoman empire’s demise, in 21st-century Roman Catholicism. for what is being done and for what said the twenty-five percent figure applies only but wrongly said that it had been signed in has already been done, for continuing to this year’s attacks. 1919. 16 August 2012 attempts to un-say what is said, un- An obituary on Aug. 8 about the movie mean what is meant. An article on August 8 about the conflict A report in the World Briefing column on critic Judith Crist erroneously attributed a in Syria misstated the number of televised Saturday about a push for more cholera distinction to her. While she was one of the Credit at a variety of levels to appearances by President Bashar al-Assad of vaccinations described incorrectly a finding most prominent and widely read critics of those seekers, processors, middle Syria since a bombing in Damascus on July of studies of the vaccine in Haiti and the her time, she was not “the first woman to be managers, and ultimate regulators of 18 killed four top security officials including Dominican Republic. The studies showed that made a full-time critic for a major American public information who take it upon his defense minister. Mr. Assad’s August 6 up to 90 percent of people who had received newspaper.” (A few women had worked as themselves (or impose it upon others) meeting with Saeed Jalili, the visiting head one dose of the vaccine returned for a second movie critics before Ms. Crist became film to re-name, re-classify, disguise, de- of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, dose and were therefore protected – not that critic at The New York Herald Tribune in fuse or be de-briefed; who find clever was the second televised appearance by Mr. two doses of the vaccine gave 90 percent 1963.) metaphors to obfuscate, euphemize Assad since that bombing, not the first. (Mr. protection. and mystify; who disseminate Assad was shown on television on July 19 China Petrochemical last month offered to information according to political greeting and swearing in the successor for his A chart with a news analysis article on Friday buy a stake in a U.K. oil project owned by structures coincident with particular defense minister.) about a new economic downturn in Europe a Canadian oil company. An Aug. 9 front- economic interests, who consent to gave an inaccurate comparison of changes in page article on battery maker A123 Systems use language to dismiss, excuse, An article on August 14 about preparations by gross domestic product in the United States incorrectly described the energy investment as cushion, cover and obscure the Iran to act as host at its biggest international versus G.D.P. changes in Europe. The chart being in a U.K. oil company. consequences of actions and the conference in 14 years, the Nonaligned used nominal G.D.P. figures for the United submerged structures behind events. Movement meeting in Tehran next week, States while using inflation-adjusted figures 15 August 2012 And ultimately who, regardless misstated the number of countries that belong for the European countries. ‘Weather? Climate change? Why the drought of stated intentions, occasionally to the movement. It is 120, not 118. And the is persisting and growing.’ – The original reveal something, piece by piece, article erroneously included one country 20 August 2012 version of this story incorrectly described through slips in language and naming among those members. China is not part of ‘Pussy Riot sentenced: Is chorus of support the effect that La Niña has on hurricane systems. the Nonaligned Movement. The article also helpful, or just fashionable?’ – The original formation. misidentified the day last week on which version of this story incorrectly identified With further acknowledgement to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel Martina Navratilova’s nationality. An article on Friday about the literary tastes readers who regard these revisions, asked the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon of immigrants in New York City misstated regrets, and retractions with the same not to attend. It was Friday, not Saturday. Bangalore is in the Indian state of Karnataka. the period during which the most popular scepticism they have the originals. A World News article Saturday about serialized Chinese-language romance was An article on Wednesday, about fears among workers from Assam state fleeing Bangalore checked out about 300 times in the library Anita Di Bianco many people in Lebanon that President incorrectly said it was in the state of Kerala. system and in which “The Help” was www.anitadi.net Bashar al-Assad of Syria is trying to draw circulated about 195 times in all 87 library their country into a sectarian war, referred Representative Paul Ryan’s budget resolution branches. It was just in the month of June, incorrectly to a Lebanese politician, Boutros calls for spending about $16 billion, or three not since the books have been available in the Harb, who holds that view. Mr. Harb is a percent, more on defense in fiscal 2017 than library system. current member of Lebanon’s Parliament, not President Barack Obama’s budget, according a former member. to the House Budget Committee. The Capital An article on Tuesday about early glimpses at column in the Friday-Sunday edition this the Martian surface provided by cameras on An article on August 16 about Japan’s arrest of week incorrectly said that the Ryan budget the Curiosity rover misstated the day that the 14 Chinese citizens from a Hong-Kong-based proposed spending $100 billion, or fifteen rover landed there. The rover touched down on vessel that had landed on one of the Japanese- percent more. Mars early on August 6, Eastern time – not on controlled Senkaku Islands, which are also August 7. claimed by China, misstated the amount An Aug. 15 Page One article about the effects PRINTING: Union Druckerei, Berlin of time that has passed since Japan backed of the conflict in Syria on Jordan incorrectly HSBC has reserved $700 million for a possible EDITION: 1000 down after arresting a Chinese fishing trawler referred to Jordan as landlocked. It has U.S. fine for breaking sanctions on Iran. An captain near the islands. The arrest occurred shoreline along the Gulf of Aqaba, which SEPTEMBER 2012 August 13 column said HSBC had paid that in September 2010, not “three years ago”. provides access to the Red Sea. amount. 3

Norway’s gun ownership totals 31 weapons a former Goldman Sachs programmer, chlorodifluoromethane. It is known as HCFC- A report in the Observatory column last per 1,000 inhabitants, according to the Swiss Sergey Aleynikov, on charges of stealing 22, not as HFC-22. Tuesday about a diagnosis of bacterial Small Arms Survey. A World News article proprietary trading code misstated the stand lung infection in the mummy of an Inca Tuesday incorrectly said the total was 31 of his lawyer, Kevin H. Marino. Mr. Marino 09 August 2012 girl sacrificed 500 years ago misstated weapons per inhabitant. maintains that his client did not commit any The Deal Professor column on the DealBook the distance that she and two other youths crime — not that he did commit a crime. page on Wednesday, about the near probably traveled before their deaths. Their The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission The article also referred incorrectly to the collapse of the Knight Capital Group after journey, from Cuzco, Peru, the capital of the plans to stop issuing licenses for nuclear federal charges brought against a group of a trading debacle, paraphrased incorrectly Inca empire, to the summit of the Llullaillaco plants until it addresses problems with its Los Angeles police officers stemming from from a comment by the chairwoman of volcano in Argentina, was as long as 1,500 nuclear waste policy raised by a recent the beating of Rodney King. They were civil the Securities and Exchange Commission, miles, not 3,000. federal appeals court decision. But NRC rights charges, not civil charges. Mary L. Schapiro. She said that the trading licensing does not have to wait for an malfunction at Knight that led to $440 A correction to a picture caption said we approved U.S. repository for nuclear waste. A report in the Observatory column on million in losses was unacceptable. She did should not have described Jerusalem as the Robert Trigaux’s Sunday column on the Tuesday about the discovery of a statue in not say that a failure of the firm would be Israeli capital. It went on to relay the advice Crystal River 3 nuclear plant was incorrect Turkey that depicts a ninth-century king unacceptable. in our style guide that the capital was Tel on this point. described the subject incorrectly. The ruler, Aviv. In 1980 the Israeli Knesset enacted Suppiluliuma, was a Neo-Hittite king, not a An article on Tuesday about the growing use a law designating the city of Jerusalem, 14 August 2012 Turkish king. of video systems for visits with jail inmates including East Jerusalem, as the country’s A picture caption on July 30 with an article misspelled the surname of a staff attorney capital. In response, the United Nations about the challenges drone pilots in the An article about the Ethiopian prime with the Washington Lawyers’ Committee security council issued resolution 478, United States face overstated what was minister, Meles Zenawi, who has not been DC Prisoners’ Project who is concerned that censuring the “change in character and status known about the scene shown in a control seen in public since June, said his Tigray the District of Columbia jail is now using of the Holy City of Jerusalem” and calling on room at the base at Hancock Field, near People’s Liberation Front had waged a a video system. She is Ivy Finkenstadt, not all member states with diplomatic missions in Syracuse. While a pilot was shown working successful 30-year war that toppled the Finkenstatdt. the city to withdraw. the controls of a drone, it was not the dictatorship of Mengistu Haile Mariam in The United Nations has reaffirmed this case that the drone was on a mission over 1991. The TPLF was not formed until 1975, A picture caption on Wednesday with an position on several occasions, and almost Afghanistan. A spokesman at Hancock said although the Eritrean independence war article about deadly flooding in the Philippine every country now has its embassy in Tel the only information he could provide was can be dated from 1961. The article also capital, Manila, and its suburbs misidentified, Aviv. While it was therefore right to issue a that the drone was on a training mission. said the opposition won 23 seats in disputed in some copies, the day on which rescuers correction to make clear Israel’s designation parliamentary elections in 2005. It won 23 were shown evacuating residents from their of Jerusalem as its capital is not recognised In a story Aug. 11 about gun violence as a in Addis Ababa, and more than 170 overall flooded homes in Marikina, part of metro by the international community, we accept public health problem, The Associated Press (Pragmatic autocrat who has close ties with Manila. It was Tuesday, not last Thursday. that it is wrong to state that Tel Aviv – the reported erroneously that Daniel Webster of the US, 9 August, page 22). country’s financial and diplomatic centre – is the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and A chart with an article on Wednesday about the capital. Research in Baltimore said gun ownership An article on Friday’s front page misstated a proposal in France to raise the top marginal sometimes goes up after a shooting in an the impact of a proposed amendment federal income tax rate to 75 percent A PolitiFact Texas article on Monday’s Page area. Webster said gun-carrying sometimes to Florida’s Constitution – No. 6 on the misstated the top marginal federal rate in B1 incorrectly stated that extending tax increases, not gun ownership. November ballot – that would restrict the Britain. It is 50 percent, not 45 percent. breaks only for high earners was one option expenditure of public funds for abortion. The being considered in Washington. It should A Spanish account from Aug. 27, 1565, amendment would not ban expenditures for An article in last Monday’s edition, have said that one option being debated is to told of a comet that streaked over Pedro abortions in cases of rape or incest or when concerning the online release of eyewitness extend the tax breaks only for nonwealthy Menendez’s fleet toward the coast of Florida. the life of the mother is threatened. accounts of the Easter Rising and the War taxpayers. Because of incorrect information from the of Independence, attributed observations of head of a research team looking into the 10 August 2012 the execution of the 1916 leaders to Capt E. A story in the July 28 Saturday Gazette- comet, that date was wrong in a story on Page The headline and the text of the Tamil Nadu Gerrard. In fact, Capt Gerrard, Lt Gerrard Mail incorrectly listed the company cited by A-1 Thursday. Page report on a 4000-MW ultra mega in 1916, was not a witness to the executions federal regulators following a coal-mining thermal power project (August 5, 2012) and the account was relayed to him by the fatality in 2001. Coal River Mining LLC 13 August 2012 misspelled the name of the site of the project. medical officer who was in attendance. did not take control of the Fork Creek Mine An article on Saturday about accusations by The headline read: “Environmental clearance No. 1 in Lincoln County until July 3, 2003, the US that the militant group Hezbollah is for Cheyyar power project deferred.” It A photograph accompanying a News and therefore did not control the mine at the deeply involved in the Syrian government’s should have been Cheyyur. article Wednesday about the militant group time a fatality occurred on Oct. 26, 2001, violent campaign to crush the uprising there Hezbollah showed supporters waving according to records from the U.S. Mine misspelled at one point, and in some editions, In a story Aug. 5 and in some versions of a Hezbollah and Syrian flags at a rally in Safety and Health Administration. the surname of the director of the program story Aug. 6 about the shooting of six people Lebanon in July. A caption accompanying the on counterterrorism and intelligence at the at a Sikh temple in suburban Milwaukee, The photograph in some editions incorrectly said 06 August 2012 Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Associated Press reported erroneously that the photograph was from 2006. The picture accompanying the August As the article correctly noted elsewhere, he is Sikh Coalition is based in Washington. The 2 article on Greek workers migrating to Matthew Levitt, not Leavitt. organization is based in New York. The story The Aug. 7 obituary of retired Army Lt. Germany was of Munich, not Hamburg as also said advocates blame more than 700 Gen. D.P. McAuliffe incorrectly stated that incorrectly captioned. An article on Friday about a project to bias attacks against Sikhs cataloged by the the Ohrdruf concentration camp, which was harness the tides off the coast of Maine coalition following the 9/11 attacks on anti- liberated in April 1945, was the first Nazi An article on July 24 about the Israeli to generate electricity misidentified the Islamic sentiment. The coalition did not say it concentration camp to come under Allied government’s seeking to demolish eight river in which Verdant Power has tested its blames the attacks on anti-Islamic sentiment. control during World War II. It was the first Palestinian hamlets in the South Hebron turbines. It is the East River, not the Hudson camp liberated by U.S. forces. Soviet troops Hills, part of what is known as Area C, River. The article also misstated part of The report, “NAM’s Palestine meet liberated the Auschwitz concentration camp which is under full Israeli control, misstated the name of the Depression-era project cancelled” (August 6, 2012), left out Algeria in January 1945. the number of Palestinians living in the championed by Franklin D. Roosevelt. It was while listing the countries whose Ministers area. And because of an editing error, a the Passamaquoddy Dam Project, not the and representatives were denied permits to 08 August 2012 correction in this space on July 27 misstated Passamaquoddy River Project. enter Ramallah. A news feature about the persecution of the the source of the incorrect number. The Rohingya people of Burma was accompanied Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics puts Spanish police arrested two participants An article on Wednesday about a revival by a map of the region but some place names the number at 117,000; the Israeli government in union-staged raids of supermarkets in of interest in the 17th-century English were left off and some were also lost in the estimates 92,000, and the United Nations Spain on suspicion of theft and later released doctor and writer Thomas Browne, using editing of the article. To clarify where events Officer for the Coordination of Humanitarian them. A World News: Europe article in the information from a new edition of two of his took place: Mohammad Hanif and members Affairs says 150,000. There are not 50,000 Friday-Sunday edition incorrectly said the works, erroneously included literary among of his family were attacked at his home in the Palestinians living in Area C, a figure two had been charged with theft; they hadn’t the words he coined. According to the online Maungdaw area of Burma’s Arakan State. provided by an advocate for Israeli settlers – been formally charged. Carmen Alvarez has Oxford English Dictionary, the word first The surviving members of the family then not by an advocate for the Palestinians. volunteered at a food bank in Espera, Spain, appeared in a work by Francis Bacon; it was fled Burma to Teknaf on Bangladesh’s south- for several years, and with Caritas, a charity not coined by Browne. eastern coast . A picture caption on Friday with an article that supports the food bank, for four decades. about the use of contraception to manage The article incorrectly said she volunteered The Memo From Africa article on Thursday, A film review on Friday about “You’ve Been zoo populations misidentified the institution with the food bank for four decades. about Africa’s widely held image as the next Trumped,” a documentary about Donald where the wolf shown in the photograph is (See: “World News: Europe: Shop ‘Raids’ frontier for economic growth, misidentified Trump’s efforts to build what he says will be housed. It is the Endangered Wolf Center in Underline Spanish Troubles” – Aug. 10) the United States agency for which Francisco the world’s greatest golf resort, in Scotland, Eureka, Missouri, not the St. Louis Zoo. J. Sanchez serves as under secretary for referred incorrectly to the plot of the fictional 12 August 2012 international trade. It is the Department of 1983 film “Local Hero.” The residents of a An article on Thursday about Chick-fil-A An article last Sunday about hostility by Commerce, not the Treasury Department. Scottish town where a Texas oil baron would restaurants as a battlefield in the culture war Turkey’s Sunni Muslim majority toward The article also misspelled the surname of like to build a refinery want to sell the town; over gay marriage misidentified the author of the country’s Alawite community, an a foreign affairs analyst at the University of they do not “foil the attempts” of the oil a Web article who said, “It’s still possible to Islamic minority suspected of allegiance Johannesburg. He is Chris Landsberg, not baron to build the refinery. He changes his get your fried chicken sandwich fix and keep to the Alawite-dominated government of Lansburg. And it referred incorrectly to the mind. your moral principles intact.” The writer is neighboring Syria, conflated two distinct value of a deal signed by G.E. to build power Sarah Laskow of the Web site Grist – not J. minority groups in Turkey, the Alawites and plants in Nigeria over the next decade. The Senegal has been a continuous republic since Kenji López-Alt of the site Serious Eats. (Ms. the Alevis. The Alawites, of Arab ethnicity, deal has no firm dollar value; it is not the case the nation’s independence in 1960. Liberia Laskow was responding to a column by Mr. are closely related to Syria’s Alawites and are that it is worth $10 billion. was founded as a republic in 1847, but also López-Alt on how to prepare a version of the concentrated in Hatay province bordering endured long periods of military dictatorship. Chick-fil-A sandwich at home.) northern Syria. Their population is believed An article on Thursday about a village in A World News article Thursday on U.S. to be less than 1 million. The Alevis, mostly India that deals with pollution from a local Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s visit An article on July 7 about children who died ethnic Turks, total between 15 million and factory that makes a coolant gas (related to a to Africa incorrectly said Senegal is West of preventable illnesses like diarrhea in the 20 million and are spread throughout Turkey. front-page article on carbon credits), referred Africa’s oldest republic. overcrowded Jamam refugee camp in South While both sects are offshoots of Shiite Islam incorrectly to a resident who compared the Sudan gave an incorrect figure from the and are sometimes confused as the same, situation to a “small, slow-motion edition of The attacker on a Sikh temple in Oak aid group Doctors Without Borders for the even by some of their own members, it is not Bhopal.” The resident, Mohan Solanki, is a Creek, Wis., shot nine people preparing to average daily number of such deaths at the the case that Alawites constitute “one of the man. worship and a police officer. In some editions time. Deaths averaged about three a day, not biggest minorities” in Turkey. Tuesday, a U.S. News article incorrectly said nine. An article on Thursday about the lengthy he shot 10 people preparing to worship. (The group said that the error was discovered The Big Deal column last Sunday, about separations that several victims of Sunday’s during a recent standard internal review of rising taxes in Britain and other European shooting rampage at a Sikh temple in 07 August 2012 epidemiological surveys results.) countries, described incorrectly the status Wisconsin had endured from their families in A report on anti-China protests in Vietnam of a plan by the French president, François India misstated the pronunciation of Sikh. It said that the United States will be moving An article last Monday about the growing Hollande, to tax the incomes of the wealthy is sik-kh, not sick. 60 percent of its naval ships to the Pacific role of homegrown Muslim jihadists and by more than 70 percent. Parliament has yet by 2020. That should have been a further 10 small groups of fighters from Al Qaeda to vote on the proposal; the taxes have not An article on Thursday about carbon percent of its entire fleet, ie the deployment in the armed struggle against the Syrian taken effect. credits issued for the destruction of a of the total US fleet in the Pacific will be 60 government of President Bashar al-Assad harmful byproduct from the manufacture percent by 2020 (Protests in Hanoi streets misstated the surname of a Syria analyst with 11 August 2012 of the world’s most common coolant as anger at ‘bully’ Beijing grows, 7 August, the International Crisis Group. He is Peter An article on Friday about the arrest of referred incorrectly to that coolant, page 14). Harling, not Harding. 4

A stealth version of Boeing Co.’s F-15 is A Comment article said wrongly that the Post brought Germany and Russia up against the previous estimate, before a ruling by in contention for purchase as an advanced Office was to be sold off. The government Britain and America. In fact, we intended the Supreme Court limiting an expansion of fighter by South Korea’s military. A World has passed legislation to privatise Royal to mean only that the war brought the great Medicaid, was $1.252 trillion, not billion. News article Wednesday about South Korean Mail, not the Post Office (Danny Boyle’s imperial powers into conflict. Russia, of military contracts incorrectly called the plane heartwarming history is only a partial truth, course, was allied to Britain and the USA. An article on Monday about a knot in a tree an F-13. Also, a photo caption accompanying 31 July, page 27). trunk in West New York, N.J., that some the article misidentified South Korean KF-15 28 July 2012 believe resembles the Virgin Mary as Our jets as KF-16s. Editing of a letter from Burjor Avari, written Orval Faubus was the governor of Arkansas Lady of Guadalupe misstated the profession in response to an article about western and the subject of “Fables of Faubus” by of a visitor to the tree, Maria Alava. Ms. 05 August 2012 imperialism, resulted in it saying: “All that Charles Mingus. The July 24 Leisure & Arts Alava works at a butcher shop; she is not a Lord Prescott has asked us to point out that is required is for the intellectual and political story “The Bassist in a Box” misspelled Mr. butcher. a leader article wrongly attributed to him leadership in the developed world to learn Faubus’s first name. the phrase “we’re all middle-class now”. to say no...to the blandishments dangled by The number of Georgia children living in The widely misquoted line derives from outsiders.” The writer was referring to the 27 July 2012 poverty in 2010 worsened to one in four from an interview with BBC Radio 4’s Today developing, rather than the developed, world. A story in Monday’s editions of The 2005 when it was one in five, according to programme in 1996, when the then Labour Times-Tribune incorrectly said the federal the Annie E. Casey Foundation 2012 Kids MP in fact said, “I’m middle-class”, and later An article on Monday about countries across Trafficking Victims Protection Act defines Count. An article on page 3A in Wednesday’s clarified that he was “a working-class man Latin America that are considering proposals sex trafficking as using force, fraud or Morning News incorrectly characterized the with working-class values” living a middle- to legalize various drugs, ranging from coercion to induce individuals under age 18 change as an improvement. class “style of life”. marijuana to cocaine to heroin, misstated to perform a commercial sex act. The law the given name of the secretary general of says that when dealing with minors under A July 24 Style article about contemporary A picture last Sunday with an article about Uruguay’s National Committee on Drugs in age 18, inducing them to perform such an attitudes toward HIV/AIDS quoted D.J. the arrival of wounded Syrian rebel fighters, some editions. He is Julio Calzada, not Jorge. act is defined as sex trafficking regardless of Steedley and described him as “the modern refugees and jihadists across the border in the whether force, fraud or coercion is involved. face of the epidemic.” After the article was picturesque town of Antakya, Turkey, was A headline last week on the Saturday Profile published, The Post learned that Steedley had published in error. The photograph showed article, about Michael Sfard, the left’s leading “Gun control: Why the US military is signed a contract in June with a production unarmed municipal officers overseeing a lawyer in Israel, who has brought scores of fighting with the NRA” – An earlier version company that specializes in filming and construction project in Antakya – not Turkish cases challenging Israel’s occupation of the of this article used phrasing that left an distributing videos that depict unprotected police officers, whose presence in the town Palestinian territories, referred imprecisely to incorrect impression about the number of sex. That information was germane to the has increased with the influx of Syrians. Mr. Sfard’s relationship to the country. While military personnel who kill themselves. story and should have been included. his parents, Polish dissidents, moved there in 04 August 2012 the 1960s, Mr. Sfard was born and raised in The Associated Press reported that most of 25 July 2012 An article on Tuesday about prospects for Israel; therefore it is not his “adopted land.” the recent attacks in Iraq bear the hallmarks A picture on Tuesday with an article about ending the AIDS epidemic gave outdated of Sunni Muslim insurgents linked to al the weapons used in the Aurora, Colo., figures to describe the shortfall in treatment An article on July 24 about one of the most Qaeda and targeting Shiites; however, the two shooting was published in error. It showed for people with H.I.V. In low- and middle- coordinated and baldly sectarian series bombings on Sunday struck predominantly a Les Baer .45 – not a Glock .40-caliber income countries, according to the United of attacks by Al Qaeda in Iraq in years, Sunni towns, and it wasn’t clear who semiautomatic pistol, which was used Nations AIDS organization and the World which left at least 100 people dead in a third perpetrated the attacks. A World Watch item in the shooting. And the article referred Health Organization, about 15 million people of the country’s 18 provinces, described on Monday incorrectly implied that Sunday’s incompletely to the availability of fully who have H.I.V. need antiretroviral drug incorrectly the location of Tuz Khurmato bombings were the work of Sunni insurgents. automatic weapons for sale. While the sale therapy, and last year about eight million of within Salahuddin Province, one of several of new machine guns to civilians has been them received the drugs they needed – not locations across the country where car bombs An article on Tuesday about the falsity of a outlawed since 1986, older machine guns five million, the number receiving the drugs had exploded in steady succession. It is in the rumor that Egypt’s Islamist leaders want to were grandfathered into the law and can be in 2009. northeastern – not western – portion of the raze the Great Pyramids misstated the recent sold to civilians in certain states. province. success Salafis have had at the polls in Egypt. An obituary about Gerald Gold, a New York Their candidates won 25 percent of the votes An article on Tuesday about threats by Syria Times editor who worked on articles about 31 July 2012 in parliamentary elections, not in the first to deploy chemical weapons against any the Pentagon Papers, the Defense Department The 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin were round of the presidential election. (The Salafi foreign intervention erroneously included history of the Vietnam War, referred the first Games to be broadcast on television, candidate in that race was disqualified.) one type of unconventional weapon among incorrectly to court rulings in the federal to local audiences only. Incorrect information those that Western authorities believe to be government’s effort to block publication of appeared Monday. An article last Friday about Japanese in Syria’s arsenal. It is not thought to have the articles. While a lower court issued a consumers who are turning away from biological weapons. stay of continued publication, its substantive An article about companies owned by Ira high-priced domestic rice in favor of cheaper ruling was in favor of The Times’ ability to Rennert, published in the print and online imported varieties gave an incomplete A July 19 A-section article about efforts publish. Therefore, when the Supreme Court editions of The Post on June 25, 2012, name for Wal-Mart Stores’ outlets in Japan. to secure an “on-ramp” to the proposed allowed publication to resume, it did not contained two errors. MagCorp was not They are called Seiyu Walmart, not simply Keystone XL pipeline for companies reverse the lower court ruling, it affirmed it. fined $900 million by the EPA; instead the Walmart. drilling for oil in Montana and North Dakota Department of Justice, on behalf of the incorrectly said that an Exxon Mobil pipeline An article last Saturday about the perils EPA, sued MagCorp and Renco in 2001 An article on Monday about an unreleased spilled millions of gallons of oil into the and opportunities for Mitt Romney on a for improperly handling waste material. human rights report on Afghan mass killings Yellowstone River last year. Exxon Mobil campaign visit to Israel misidentified the That lawsuit remains unresolved. And leading up to the fall of the Taliban in 2001 put the amount spilled at 1,509 barrels (about daily newspaper there for which Nahum RG Steel did not assume $650 million in misstated, at one point, the years covered 63,000 gallons). Barnea is a senior columnist. It is Yedioth environmental liabilities; it assumed $650 by the report. As the article correctly noted Ahronoth, not Maariv. million in liabilities, including employee- elsewhere, the report covered purported Morgan Stanley is cutting 700 jobs, taking related and environmental liabilities. mass-killings from as early as 1978, before the total to 4,000 for the year, rather than A headline on Friday with the continuation According to Renco, neither the MagCorp the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan – not making a further 4,000 job cuts as incorrectly of an article about General Motors’ quarterly lawsuit nor the $650 million liabilities starting in the 1980s. The article also stated in an article on July 20. earnings misstated the results. As the article assumed by RG Steel caused those companies misidentified the location of massacres correctly noted, the company reported a net to go into bankruptcy. attributed in the report to the Taliban 24 July 2012 profit over all – not a loss. (It incurred a loss commander Mullah Fazul Akhund. The The second paragraph of the article “Second in its European operations.) A Monetary History of the United States, study accused Mullah Akhund of a role in chance in Asia’s cockpit” (July 20) said, 1867-1960 by Milton Friedman and Anna massacres in northern Afghanistan, not “the revival of the Farkhor airbase and the 03 August 2012 Schwartz was first published in 1963. The specifically within the city of Mazar-i-Sharif. upgrading of the military hospital on its An article about the British diplomat Barnaby July 31 feature by Stephen Moore, said the premises, where former Northern Alliance Jones riding a rollercoaster with Kim publication date was 1971. An editing error led to an article (Palestinians leader and ‘Lion of Panjshir’ Ahmed Shah Jong-un, North Korea’s leader (In the loop: see hopes for state fade as settlers’ numbers Massoud was treated for his fatal injuries mystery man is identified, 3 August, page 30 July 2012 jump, 27 July, page 26) stating that the from the suicide bomb attack on September 25), said Jones was “firmly strapped into The large graphic, Atlas of Olympic success number of Jewish settlers in the West Bank 9, 2011 — two days before the September 11 the seat in front of the dictator and his wife, (26 July, p. 20 and 21), should have included a “grew by more than 15,000 in the past year incidents in America…” The correct year is Ri Sol-ju”. Jones was in front of Kim, but note on Germany’s entry to make clear that it to reach a total in the occupied territories 2001 . pictures of the event do not show Ri on the includes the medal-winning achievements of that exceeds 350,000 for the first time”. In ride. East Germany before unification. fact that figure is for the number of settlers in A report on European Union plans to the West Bank alone; as the article went on strengthen ties with Israel said Catherine The Royal Air Force Station Northolt The Cuidad Nezahualcoyotl Journal article to say, there are an additional 300,000 Jews Ashton, the EU’s high representative for Journal article on Thursday, about Britain’s on Feb. 17, about one of the world’s largest living on settlements across the pre-1967 foreign and security policy, had recently air defense plans for the Olympic Games, garbage dumps, at the edge of Mexico City, border in East Jerusalem. The phrase “in the issued a statement deploring a decision by the described incorrectly the missiles deployed misidentified the type of waste that is used as occupied territories” was inserted during the Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, around the main Olympics sites in London an alternative fuel for cement kilns operated editing process. to build an additional 800 settlements in and in Beijing and Athens during the two by Cemex, the giant Mexican cement maker. occupied territory. The decision Ashton previous Summer Olympics. They are It is organic waste, not inorganic. A Comment article said the distribution criticised was to build an additional 800 ground-to-air missiles, not air-to-ground. of economic and social capital in Britain homes, not settlements (EU move to upgrade The TV Watch column on Saturday, about came close to the economist Will Hutton’s relations with Israel, 23 July, page 15). An aide to Mitt Romney said the Republican the broadcast of the opening ceremony of 30-30-40 equation: “30% well off, 30% presidential candidate would stand by Israel the London Olympics, misidentified the comfortable, 40% struggling”. It went on Mayoral candidate Kirk Caldwell said, “My if it launched a unilateral attack on Iran to person portrayed by Kenneth Branagh. He to say that when the first two categories father made me work in the plantation. I’ve stop Iran from developing nuclear weapons. was Isambard Kingdom Brunel, a prominent were added together “you get a middle-to- watched, and I actually worked as hard as A World News article on Wednesday British engineer in the 19th century, not “a upper-middle-class majority”. In fact the they did. I didn’t have to do it for the rest incorrectly reported that the aide said Mr. Dickens character.” equation Will Hutton made in his 1995 of my life like generations of plantation Romney would green-light an attack by Iran book, The State We’re In, was 40% well off, workers, but I came to appreciate what hard on Israel. A July 28 A-section article about the effects 30% insecure and 30% disadvantaged and work means, and I’m not afraid of hard of fighting in Damascus on residents of that marginalised (25 July, page 26). work.” A Page B1 article Monday misquoted 02 August 2012 city incorrectly said that the French occupied him as saying “plantation owners” instead of A music review yesterday about a production Syria from 1918 to 1936. The French A capsule summary on Wednesday for “plantation workers.” of Richard Strauss’s opera “Arabella” by the occupation lasted from 1920 to 1946. a news analysis article about Greece’s Santa Fe Opera referred incorrectly to the son persistent economic problems misidentified The Fact Checker column in the July 22 of the librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal who 29 July 2012 the people who are growing more reluctant to A-section, about Republican presidential committed suicide while Hofmannsthal, who The Streetscapes column last Sunday, about continue paying the country’s bills. They are candidate Mitt Romney’s accusations himself died two days later, was working the soaring 1956 ticket counter created by Greece’s lenders, not its leaders. that President Obama engages in “crony on the libretto. He was one of two sons, not Lester Tichy at Pennsylvania Station in New capitalism,” incorrectly indicated that Meg Hofmannsthal’s only son. York City a few years before the station 26 July 2012 Whitman was a partner at Kleiner Perkins was torn down, misstated the airport for An article on Wednesday about the Caufield & Byers, a company that a Romney 01 August 2012 which Eero Saarinen designed his swooping Congressional Budget Office’s new cost aide has described as a beneficiary of Obama On Monday, July 30, we reported that support terminal for T.W.A. in 1962. It was John F. estimates for the law overhauling health administration largess, when she made a for Scottish independence was at a ‘record Kennedy International, not La Guardia. care misstated the projected net costs of the $100,000 contribution to Romney’s super low’. We have been asked to point out that in law’s insurance coverage provisions over PAC. Whitman was never a Kleiner Perkins fact the latest poll put support at 36 per cent, An article ‘Syria: East and West on a the 11 years from 2012 through 2022. The partner; she was a strategic adviser to the which is an increase on the previous month. collision course’ said the First World War new estimate is $1.168 trillion, not billion; firm in 2011 but made the contribution while 5 in her current position as chief executive 17 July 2012 10 July 2012 where the street-stop practice is most of Hewlett-Packard. She contributed to the An article on Thursday about a visit by A July 7 A-section article about the ongoing common referred imprecisely to the legal Romney campaign and another pro-Romney Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton effects of Sri Lanka’s civil war on the Tamil standard that governs when police officers PAC, but not the super PAC, while working to Laos misstated the origin of more than minority in the country’s north described are permitted to frisk someone. While the for Kleiner Perkins. 580,000 bombing missions over that country the United Nations as estimating that 40,000 police can stop a person if they believe a during the Vietnam War, citing the text on a innocent people may have died in the war. crime is afoot, that is not sufficient legal A story Sunday on page 2A about people map at an artificial-limb center where Mrs. That is the high end of the estimate; the reason to conduct a frisk. (The United States suffering burns while walking across coals Clinton spent several hours. The missions world body says at least 7,721 and as many as Supreme Court has held that in order for the at an event hosted by a motivational speaker were carried out by several branches of the 40,000 civilians were killed. police to frisk someone, they must have a should have quoted the speaker’s website as American military, not just by the Air Force. reasonable belief that the person is armed and saying the attendees had an opportunity to The article also described incorrectly the The availability of $1.9 million in federal dangerous.) “understand that there is absolutely nothing bombs that were dropped, many of which money to help develop an Asian carp you can’t overcome.” remain as a deadly problem in rural areas of processing plant in Grafton depends on 06 July 2012 Laos. Several types of bombs were used; not environmental clearances now under review In a front-page article Thursday about A story on Thursday’s Page 1 (“Slow Going”) all were cluster bombs. by the U.S. Department of Housing and asylum applications by Mexican immigrants, said the Nissan Leaf is the first mass- Urban Development. A story in Sunday’s Monica Khant’s comment that applicants are produced, totally electric automobile. It is The U.S. Treasury “will work to aggressively main news section about the project did not “being pushed” to request asylum referred to not the first electric car made on an assembly recoup taxpayer dollars” from Raser mention the requirement for that review. their fears of encountering violence if they line. Technologies Inc. and Stirling Energy return to Mexico, not to the actions of their Systems Inc., both of which received federal An article in the edition of June 8th said that attorneys. It is not the position or belief of US Sen. Harry Reid and Rep. John Boehner green-energy funding and later filed for a new prelature in the Catholic Church had Khant or the Georgia Asylum & Immigration earlier this month made comments about bankruptcy-law protection, “if we find been set up by Pope Benedict for married Network that immigration attorneys are China making the U.S. Olympic uniforms. that these firms have permanently ceased Anglican priests. The prelature was set up urging people to file asylum requests without The Business column on Monday incorrectly production,” a Treasury spokeswoman said. for Anglicans, including bishops, married explaining the law to them first. stated the legislators commented last week. “In the case of these firms, like all firms that priests, unmarried priests and lay people who received 1603 program funds, we require wanted to join the church while preserving A story about the Episcopal Church on 22 July 2012 annual reporting with documentation of their own distinctive liturgy and organisation. Thursday should have read: In May, the Two weeks ago we said Andy Murray was production.” A U.S. News article Monday General Conference of the United Methodist trying to become the first British Wimbledon about Thompson River PowerLLC incorrectly Heidi Carrier, the woman whose “Legalize Church soundly rejected a measure that winner for 76 years. Of course there have said the spokeswoman declined to comment Gay” T-shirt caused a furor with co-workers, would have removed a line from the church’s been British winners including Virginia on Raser and Stirling. In addition, solar-panel filed a discrimination complaint against statement of beliefs that homosexuality is Wade who won the women’s singles in maker Solyndra received more than $500 her employer, Party Time Rentals, with the “incompatible with Christian teaching,” 1977. We were referring to the men’s singles million in government loans. The article Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario. Sunday’s which has been the UMC’s explicit position competition. incorrectly said $500. Public Citizen column in-correctly reported for the past four decades. the complaint was filed with the Ontario 21 July 2012 16 July 2012 Human Rights Commission. An article on Thursday about fraud An article on June 28 about the continued An article in some editions on Wednesday connected to the federal biofuel program weakness of some European banks omitted about a plan by DreamWorks Animation Rebels entered the Congo town of Rutshuru described incorrectly the safeguards set up by a relevant detail about the French bank to bring its animated movie characters to a on Sunday. A photo caption published in an the National Biodiesel Board, a trade group, BNP Paribas, and in so doing may have planned amusement park in the New Jersey article Monday incorrectly indicated the town including a new monitoring and auditing left the impression that the bank was Meadowlands referred incorrectly to some had been entered on Saturday. system for biodiesel producers. The system is undercapitalized. While the bank was among other places for proposed studio parks. It voluntary, not mandatory. those that the European Banking Authority never announced plans for Abu Dhabi, and 09 July 2012 listed last year as needing additional capital, it is still working on plans for China. It is A graphic in a report on emerging markets on Mexico City had a homicide rate of 17 per it has since exceeded the capital reserve not the case that the studio’s “earlier plans” July 6 inadvertently transposed the flags of 100,000 people in 1997. A World News target the banking authority set. for parks in China and Abu Dhabi “failed to Poland and Indonesia. article Thursday incorrectly said that the work out.” (As the article correctly noted, figure was for Mexico as a whole. An article about the Giant’s Causeway DreamWorks’s plan for a park in Dubai did 08 July 2012 visitor centre wrongly attributed to Professor not materialize.) TV listings for the BBC4 programme The amount of debt issued in Asia-Pacific Richard Dawkins the quote: “I don’t mind Storyville: Hitler, Stalin and Mr Jones excluding Japan in the first half of 2012 was creation stories presented as mythology, 14 July 2012 referred to the journalist Gareth Jones, who $455 billion, according to Dealogic data. The but to suggest there is any debate that Earth An article on June 30 about the anticipated revealed in the 1930s how Stalin’s policies led Deal Journal Asia on Thursday incorrectly is 4.54 billion-years-old is pure s***. The victory of the Institutional Revolutionary to famine in Ukraine and who also “hitched said it was $383.6 billion. words were, in fact, spoken by Professor Party, or PRI, in Mexico’s presidential a lift in Hitler’s private jet”. Jet engines Brian Cox. election after 12 years out of power quoted were in development in the 1930s but were 05 July 2012 incorrectly from a comment by the Mexican introduced initially only into military service The text of the report, “Cabinet clears Rs. An editorial in yesterday’s edition, historian Enrique Krauze about the 71 years in 1944. Hitler’s private aeroplane was a 25-crore plan to airlift Bhopal waste” (July concerning the decision by the Kadima party that the autocratic, and often corrupt, PRI Junkers Ju 52 until 1939, when he began 4, 2012), said the Central government would to leave the Israeli government, stated that had ruled the country. He called that era flying in a Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condor. Both pay Rs. 25 lakh to GIZ, a German firm, to Palestinians are exempt from military and the “imperial presidency,” not the “imperial were piston-driven aircraft (5 July, page 23). remove the waste. It should have been Rs. 25 civilian service. This refers to Israeli citizens democracy.” crore. The headline is correct. of Arab extraction and not to Palestinians in Tuesday’s 1A cover story on those who die the Occupied Territories. A sentence in the OP-ED page article, late in wars misstated the academic affiliation In the feature about Stephen Laws published “Number games in Nagaland” (July 12), of retired Army brigadier general Casey on Tuesday we stated that film company A July 17 editorial incorrectly reported that read: “Threatened by the possibility of loss Brower. He teaches at the Virginia Military Miramax is owned by Disney. In fact it 24 Pakistani troops were killed in February of political representation, the hill districts Institute. became an independent company again in by United States troops along the Afghan- inflated their numbers in the 2001 Census December 2010. Pakistan border. The incident occurred in to the extent that the loss would have been A Pass notes column on Lichtenstein said that November. reduced to just one seat if the 2001 Census the royal banking firm LGT employed 5% of Free the Children is the aid group working was used for delimitation.” The authors of the the country’s population. In fact it employs a with Kenya’s Agricultural Ministry to 20 July 2012 article clarify that the sentence should have workforce equivalent to 5% of the country’s distribute disease-resistant seeds to farmers. The High and Low Finance column last read: “Threatened by the possibility of loss of population in offices around the world (3 July, A July 4 clarification of a June 30 World Friday, about the difficulties of auditing political representation, the hill tribes inflated page 3). Weekly article misnamed the organization as Chinese companies, misstated the status of their numbers in the 2001 Census and the Feed the Children. Sino-Clean Energy, a Chinese company that Dimapur-based tribes also inflated their An article last Sunday about the presidential has sued short sellers. Nasdaq suspended numbers. While hill districts like Tuensang election in Mexico included a quotation from A correction published on 15 May 2012, page trading in the shares on May 21 pending the and Wokha were able to increase their seats, a Texas lawmaker who misstated the amount 33, regarding an article on vigilante violence receipt of additional information from the the hill districts as a whole did not gain from of aid to countries like Egypt and Israel. It is in Derry, said there had been 85 shootings company. The shares have not been delisted. inflation.” about $3 billion, not $300 billion. in the city over the past three years, not over the past year as the article originally stated. An item in last Saturday’s Review section (14 13 July 2012 A news analysis article last Sunday about Since our article and the correction were July, page 6) said Thabo Mbeki was among An article on Wednesday about “bath salts” the changing meaning of socialism in published, information released to the BBC those who had signed a copy of Shakespeare’s misidentified the name of the government France described the country’s minimum by the Northern Ireland ambulance service collected works that was circulated among agency trying to stop the importation of the wage incorrectly. It is not the highest in the and Derry’s Altnagelvin hospital gave a prisoners in South Africa’s Robben Island dangerous new class of drugs. The agency is European Union. (According to data from lower figure of 40 men shot in paramilitary- jail. Thabo Mbeki, later South African U.S. Customs and Border Protection. the Organization for Economic Cooperation style attacks in the Derry area since 2008. president, was never imprisoned on Robben and Development, Luxembourg has a higher A further five people were shot in nearby Island. It was his father, Govan Mbeki, 11 July 2012 hourly minimum wage.) Strabane and another three over the border who was incarcerated there and signed the In Tuesday’s edition we inadvertently used an in Donegal – this includes the killing in Shakespeare book. old quote by a Palestinian official about Tony A picture caption on June 24 with the February 2012 of Derry man Andrew Allen. Blair’s role as a Middle East peace envoy. We Practical Traveler column, about authentic The PSNI said there had been 16 casualties A photo that accompanied a World News are happy to acknowledge that those words yet sustainable, eco-friendly tourism and as a result of paramilitary-style attacks (11 article on Friday on religious tensions in may no longer represent the Palestinian how to find responsible outfitters, misstated shootings and five assaults) in the region Russia’s Tatarstan republic showed Ildus authorities views on Mr. Blair. part of the name of a resort in Thailand that including Derry and Strabane in the 12 Faizov, a cleric who survived an attempt has an elephant camp. It is Anantara Golden months to 31 March 2012. This statistic does on his life. In some editions, the caption A report in the ArtsBeat column on Thursday Triangle Resort & Spa (not Antara). not include pipe bomb attacks by RAAD incorrectly said he had been killed in a about France’s celebration of the 300th (Republican Action Against Drugs) or the separate attack that day. anniversary of the birth of Jean-Jacques The Surfacing column on June 17 about Donegal murder. The original article also Rousseau omitted the word Modern from the South Palm Springs misstated the time that quoted Derry-based John Lindsay, author Saturday’s Evening News carried an article title of a book by Elisabeth Badinter, who the Backstreet Art District, a former low-rent of a new book on the violence, saying “on about protests over the Batsheva Dance in an essay commented on Rousseau’s view commercial zone, was transformed by an average there are about four young men Company’s plans to perform in Edinburgh. of women. The book is The Conflict: How influx of galleries and artists’ studios. While being forced out of the city by RAAD and The article claimed organisers had said the Modern Motherhood Undermines the Status there has been a new crop of contemporary other vigilante groups per week”; about 200 protests “stank of bigotry”. This comment in of Women. galleries in the last two years, the Art District in the past year. Mr Lindsay has told us the fact came from the British Israel Coalition, was officially established seven years ago. estimate of 200 should have been for the an independent group with no links to the A graphic in Sunday’s Business section gave three-year period. However, large numbers organisers. incorrect figures for U.S. ethanol production. 07 July 2012 of expulsions have been reported over short The U.S. produces billions of gallons each A June 30 fact box about Japanese cars not time frames: on 30 April 2012, the Irish 18 July 2012 year and is projected to produce 13.9 billion always being made in Japan incorrectly Times reported a community worker from A column by Bill Keller on Monday referred gallons this year. said Honda Fit subcompacts sold in Canada the Peace and Reconciliation Group saying incorrectly to one consequence of the 2010 since early this year have come from one of that in the previous week alone five young health care law. While it is estimated to Congolese rebels have drawn within 30 Toyota’s plants in China. In fact, they are men had been forced to leave Derry (Fear provide coverage to 30 million Americans miles, or 48 kilometers, of Goma, according manufactured in Honda’s plants in China. and republican vigilantes stalk new city of who are currently uninsured, the estimate to military and aid officials. In some editions culture, 14 May, page 1). includes both an expansion of Medicaid and Tuesday, a World News article incorrectly An article on June 27 about interviews with additional enrollment in private insurance said the rebels were within six miles, or 10 100 people who said they had been stopped ‘HTC victory over Apple in latest round of plans, not only the latter. kilometers, of Goma. by the New York police in neighborhoods patent battle’ was amended to clarify that 6 the injunction Apple won against Samsung 02 July 2012 A June 25 A-section article about the Market column on Monday was mislabeled as prevents it from importing its Galaxy Tab Iranian crude oil accounted for 5.4% of response of Turkey and NATO to Syria’s 704 million euros and 1.497 billion euros. 10.1 tablets, rather than all Galaxy Tab European demand in 2011, according to downing of a Turkish warplane misquoted tablets, into the U.S. the International Energy Agency. In some Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesman Selcuk In the report “Nurses get ready to vent their editions of the Friday-Sunday newspaper, a Unal. Unal said, “It was a hostile act”; he did anger at Pounds 20bn blow to training, pay An article on Wednesday about federal Markets article incorrectly stated the figure not describe the attack as “an act of war.” and jobs” (May 14), it was stated that the approval of a rapid H.I.V. test sold over the as 4.2%. Royal College of Nursing “says that 61,000 counter for use at home reversed the odds A June 27 A-section article about online NHS nursing jobs are at risk of being lost on of a person’s getting a false positive or false 01 July 2012 activists in China misspelled the pseudonym top of the 26,000 that had gone in the two negative result in taking the OraQuick H.I.V. The photo caption with an opinion essay of an active microblogger. The microblogger years to April this year”. The figures actually test. About one person in 5,000 would get a last Sunday about demographic shifts in known as Secretary General of the Flower related to the total NHS staff already lost or false positive test, and about one person in 12 Washington, which is no longer a majority- and Fruit Mountain is also known as estimated to be at risk by the RCN and not could get a false negative – not the other way black city, incorrectly identified a corridor Huaguoshan Zongshuji. nurses alone. around. that has undergone commercial revitalization. It is H Street in Northeast Washington, not A report on Page 15A Wednesday incorrectly An article on June 12 about the Kremlin’s Google Inc. purchased online-ad firm Northwest. described the decline in foreign investment in stepping up pressure on Russia’s opposition DoubleClick for $3.1 billion. In some the United States. The U.S. share of foreign movement misstated the position of one of editions Tuesday, a Marketplace article 29 June 2012 investment dropped from 41 percent to 18 two men who were replaced at two high- about Microsoft Corp.’s online-ad business An obituary on Thursday about Harry percent over the past decade. profile publications in Moscow after they incorrectly said the purchase price was $2 Levinson, a psychologist who demonstrated published material supporting the opposition. billion. a link between job conditions and emotional 27 June 2012 One man was an editor and the other a chief health, misidentified the person who began The Deal Book column on Tuesday, about executive; both were not editors. The article Protester Jeff Rae accepted an adjournment visiting corporations to study their treatment Samuel Israel III, founder of the Bayou also misstated the reason for the firings. in contemplation of dismissal for charges of workers. It was Dr. Levinson – not Hedge Fund Group, who is in prison for Several official reasons were given; neither filed against him in connection with Occupy William C. Menninger, his superior at the running a Ponzi scheme, misstated the action man was explicitly dismissed because of the Wall Street protests. A Greater New York Menninger Clinic. taken by the Financial Industry Regulatory publication of the material. article on Tuesday incorrectly said he Authority against a Goldman Sachs unit accepted a deal for six months probation. On Wednesday, The Independent published that cleared trades for Bayou. Finra ordered An article said a Channel 4 Dispatches a photograph accompanying a story about Goldman to pay $20.6 million to the creditors programme had secretly filmed staff at a 04 July 2012 the detention of Palestinians by Israeli of the collapsed hedge fund; it did not fine funeral company storing “rack upon rack” of The piece “10 Things You Might Not Know authorities. The photograph, which was Goldman that amount. dead bodies in a warehouse. The photograph About Guns” on Page A13 in Tuesday’s captioned Palestinian children as young as 12 used to illustrate the article showed a stack of Opinion section incorrectly credited John can be jailed for up to three months without An article in some editions on Monday about coffins, which readers might have assumed Moses Browning with inventing the Colt legal representation, was in fact taken in a the downing of a Turkish jet fighter by Syria contained dead bodies. In fact they were new, .45 revolver that was pictured. Browning different location some years ago and did not misidentified the position held by Jihad empty coffins stacked in a different part of invented a later handgun, the Model 1911, represent Palestinian children being held by Makdissi, who told a Turkish news channel the warehouse (25 June, page 9). that was also commonly called a Colt .45. Israeli officials. the episode was “an accident, certainly not an attack.” Mr. Makdissi is the spokesman for An article on Wednesday about the Japanese Page A-1. Nazareth is in Israel. An article A news analysis article on Tuesday about the Syrian Foreign Ministry, not the foreign government’s failure to make public detailed Tuesday about a Presbyterian Church (USA) the impact of the Supreme Court’s decision minister. radiation measurements provided by the divestment proposal gave an incorrect on Arizona’s immigration enforcement law United States in the early days of last year’s location. misstated the number of joint agreements An analysis of attitudes inside the German Fukushima Daichi nuclear disaster or to use with Arizona police that the Department of government to Greece’s financial crisis them to conduct evacuations misidentified the In yesterday’s Taranaki Daily News an Homeland Security rescinded in response described the foreign minister, Guido government agency that grades evacuation article on the price of earthquake work said to the court’s ruling. The department halted Westerwelle, as leader of the Free Democrat drills at nuclear plants in the US. It is the there were 13 earthquake-prone buildings in agreements with seven Arizona police party. Westerwelle stepped down as leader Federal Emergency Management Agency, not New Plymouth. There is only one confirmed departments under which federal officials of the Free Democrats after regional election the Environmental Protection Agency. earthquake-prone building, the Collier’s had authorized state and local officers to defeats in May and was replaced by Philipp Building, on Devon St West. The other 12 check immigration status and to detain illegal Rösler (Indifference rules, 26 June, page 22). An article on Thursday about the difficulties buildings, including schools and the TSB immigrants during stops or investigations. facing Greece’s new coalition government Showplace, are likely to be earthquake-prone. The department did not suspend all joint A leader column remarked that a handshake erroneously attributed a distinction to Olga agreements in Arizona under the program, between the Queen and the former IRA Kefaloyianni, a conservative lawmaker from A report about the planned restoration of which is known as 287g. Homeland Security commander Martin McGuinness “cannot Crete who is the new minister of tourism. She Wilton’s Music Hall in east London said officials say four agreements remain in force; be underestimated in its symbolism and is the only female minister in the cabinet – it had “played host to many famous stars, they allow Arizona police to determine the significance”. The opposite was meant: that not the only female member of the cabinet. including Champagne Charlie, who played immigration status of foreigners held in jails. the significance of the handshake could not (Another woman is a deputy in the health a key role in the 1889 dockers’ strike, which be overestimated (23 June, page 40). ministry.) resulted in the formation of the UK’s first 28 June 2012 trade union”. George Leybourne, popularly A story on Page 22 on Wednesday misquoted A calculation went awry in a weather column A film review on Friday about “To Rome known as Champagne Charlie, did not play a campaign ad for President Barack Obama. that drew a parallel with this summer’s With Love,” the new Woody Allen movie, any part in the dockers’ strike, having died The ad contends that Mitt Romney’s private dismal weather and the storms of June 1944, referred incorrectly to Sigmund Freud’s some years earlier in 1884. Wilton’s, which equity firm “specialized in relocating jobs which affected planning for the D-day relationship to the Italian capital. While he had become a Methodist mission, did play a done by American workers to new facilities invasion of Normandy “nearly 80 years ago”. was unable to visit Rome in the first part part – as a soup kitchen for dockers and their in low-wage countries.” That was nearly 70 years ago. of his life – something he attributed, in his families. Trade unions had existed in the UK writings, to neurosis – he did go there in 1901 for many years before 1889, although the An article on Monday about the response by An article on Monday about the complex and several times thereafter; Rome was not strike is associated with the development of President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan to challenges facing Egypt’s president-elect, somewhere he “never managed to visit.” the “new unions” which increasingly brought recent allegations that insiders close to him Mohamed Morsi, quoted incorrectly, from unskilled workers into the movement (29 are plundering the nation’s mineral wealth, Mr. Morsi’s first speech to the nation after An article last Tuesday about an attack a June, page 18). using a statement from his office, misstated his victory was announced on Sunday. He day earlier by militants along Israel’s border part of the name of the Chinese company said that Egyptians “will face together the with Egypt referred incorrectly to Col. Avital An article in Tuesday’s editions incorrectly that along with an Afghan company had strife and conspiracies that target our national Leibovich, who in speaking for the Israeli cited the agency that issued a memo on won the contract to develop the Amu Darya unity” – not strife and “consequences.” military said that the explosives and gear applications for halting deportations. The oil field. It is the China National Petroleum used were similar to those used in an attack memo was issued by U.S. Immigration and Corporation, not the Chinese National Amelia Earhart flew from Oakland, Calif., last August. Colonel Leibovich is a woman. Customs Enforcement and told officers to Petroleum Company. to Honolulu in March 1937 on her first failed refer many illegal immigrants to another around-the-world attempt. In May 1937, she 25 June 2012 agency, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration A headline in some editions on Saturday flew to Miami in an attempt to fly west to An article on June 4 about the publication Services, which won’t begin taking requests with an article about a national campaign east around the world. She later disappeared. of a book and a widening leaks scandal until Aug. 15. by the Roman Catholic Church against A Page A9 photo caption Tuesday said the that have made the Vatican appear to be a President Obama’s health care mandates and California-to-Honolulu trip was part of her hornet’s nest of backstabbing and gossip 03 July 2012 other government policies overstated a point last flight. referred incorrectly to Italian media reports An art review on Friday about an exhibition made by Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan, the about Ettore Gotti Tedeschi, the Vatican bank of drawings and prints by the 17th-century archbishop of New York, who helped kick 26 June 2012 president from 2009 until he was ousted on artist Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione at the off the campaign on Friday. When Cardinal The Treasury Department can prohibit May 24. The reports said Mr. Gotti Tedeschi David Tunick gallery in Manhattan referred Dolan referred to defending “sacred liberties” financial institutions from doing business was a member of Opus Dei, the powerful incorrectly to the connection between during a Mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral that with a specified party, such as a terrorist conservative Catholic group; they did not Castiglione’s drawings and the work of morning, he did so in the context of threats group and its supporters. A U.S. News suggest that while at the bank, he had acted Giovanni Battista Tiepolo. Tiepolo was against religion throughout the history of the article Friday about antiterrorism financing to protect Opus Dei’s financial interests. born 32 years after Castiglione died, thus United States. He did not say the president’s laws incorrectly stated that a Treasury Castiglione’s drawings may look ahead to policies “threaten ‘sacred liberties.’ “ (The policy adviser said in a blog post that the 24 June 2012 Tiepolo’s work but they do not “nod” to it. cardinal has, on other occasions, criticized department can’t ban financial institutions A news story (21 June, page 15) should have specific policies of the president.) from doing business with entities that said that extremist groups may be earning An article yesterday on page A1 of the first send money to Somalia. In the blog post, money from YouTube’s revenue-sharing edition entitled “Massive protest greets The U.S. will retain a buffer zone of 25 which followed decisions by some financial system, rather than that they are. The article Leung” mistakenly said protest organisers nautical miles, or 46 kilometers, from the institutions to stop money transfers to included a comment from YouTube owner had claimed that 530,000 people joined shore in the Chukchi Sea and another buffer Somalia, the adviser said that the department Google obtained in the early stages of the Sunday’s demonstration. In fact, organisers of an as-yet undisclosed distance in the doesn’t have the authority to direct financial story’s genesis in December 2011, but we said 400,000 took to the streets. Beaufort Sea even as it accelerates efforts institutions to open or maintain a particular should have sought a more recent comment to stage oil and gas lease sales in those seas. account or relationship. from the company before publication. An article on Thursday about a young A News article Wednesday incorrectly said The following statement from a YouTube woman and her family in Afghanistan who the buffer zones would be 30 miles, or 48 The Canadian province of Ontario has shed spokesperson has been added to the online have taken the rare step of going public with kilometers, in both seas (See: “Oil Producers 300,000 manufacturing jobs since 2004. An article: “Seeing ads next to videos on allegations of rape misstated the surname of Look to Arctic” – June 27). Americas article Monday about the Canadian YouTube does not indicate that those content the head of the local police in Kunduz, where economy incorrectly said the job losses were providers are making money as a member the attack is said to have taken place. He is The United States trades more with Europe in the city of Ottawa, Canada’s capital and a of our partner programme. Ads can also be Col. Mohammed Shokur, not Shutor. than with Canada. Incorrect information city in Ontario. shown next to videos if they contain material appeared Monday. that rights holders like the music industry The American banana tycoon Sam San Onofre nuclear plant’s Unit 3 reactor was have registered through YouTube’s automated Zemurray’s dealings with U.S. Secretary of Overall, the yen has strengthened against shut down Jan. 31. The date was incorrect in Content ID system.” State Philander Knox, in 1910, concerned the dollar over the last decade. A chart an article on Page 7 of the News section in threats to Honduras’s bond payments and, in accompanying Tuesday’s Business & Finance the June 19 edition of the Register. 23 June 2012 turn, threats to Zemurray’s own deals with article about Japanese car makers shifting A review on Friday about “Black 1973-1986,” the Honduran government. Marc Levinson’s production abroad incorrectly showed the Germany’s exposure to European bailout an exhibition of black-and-white photographs review of Rich Cohen’s “The Fish That Ate change in the strength of the dollar against funds is 704 billion euros, and other by George Dureau at Higher Pictures on the Whale” (July 2) incorrectly stated that the the yen. It should have showed the change in countries’ exposure is 1.497 trillion euros. Madison Avenue in Manhattan, referred country in question was Nicaragua. the strength of the yen against the dollar. A chart that accompanied the Abreast of the incorrectly to Mr. Dureau. He is not black. 7

An article on Friday about a credit she was not paid to be Mr. Gore’s image City. In recent years more people have been A sentence in the OP-ED page article, ‘A downgrade of 15 large banks by Moody’s consultant and offer sartorial advice, such as killed by guns than in traffic accidents, not lethal game of hide-and-seek’ (June 9), Investors Service misstated its cut for Bank wearing earth tones. the other way around. read: “It also raises the question: is the of America. Bank of America’s credit rating extrajudicial of killing foreigners (and was cut by one notch, to Baa2, from Baa1; it ‘Documentary about rape in the US military Ireland accepted an 85-billion loan from Americans living abroad)...more or less was not cut by two notches. changes government policy’ was corrected members of the European Union in 2010 and frightening...?” It should have been the because the original described Jackie Speier Spain agreed to receive a 100-billion line of extrajudicial killing of foreigners. The final sentence of “Bashar al-Assad: as a Republican congressman. Speier is a credit on June 9 to save its failing banks. A Behind the mask”, FT Weekend Magazine, Democratic congresswoman. June 14 article about struggling eurozone In a story on Page A2 Monday describing June 16, had an error in the transliteration nations at the Euro 2012 games misstated the conservatives’ growing optimism about of a political slogan in Arabic. It should In a News commentary (June 19) it was bailout amounts as being in millions of euros. Republican Mitt Romney’s prospects in have read: Bashar ilal iyada wa Maher ilal stated that “BNP Paribas alone is reckoned the November presidential election, The kiyada - Bashar to the clinic and Maher to to hold EUR 20 billion of French government A statue of the Virgin Mary in a classroom Associated Press misidentified David Hirtz as the leadership. debt and a further EUR 20 billion of Italian in the St. Stanislaus Catholic school in East an active FBI agent. He is retired. debt” when it is actually EUR 20 billion for Chicago, Ind., stood next to an American flag 22 June 2012 Italy and France combined. placed in a wall bracket. A page-one article In an article entitled the ‘Game of the Name’ Yamah Augustine is the leader of the on Saturday incorrectly said that the statue last month, we said that Andersen Consulting Sande Society in the Liberian village of 19 June 2012 was holding the flag. was renamed Accenture when it split from Nimba Point. She did not say that female ‘Why some illegal immigrants aren’t the accountants Arthur Andersen in 2001, circumcision is rarely questioned. Incorrect celebrating Obama’s new policy’ – The 14 June 2012 in a move to distance it from the parent information appeared in a photo caption on original version of this story misstated the An article on Tuesday about the effect of company’s role in Enron. The name change Wednesday. The woman pictured in another nature of the policy change made by the budget cuts in Greece on ancient artifacts and actually took place 10 months before the photo for the same story is not an activist Obama administration. The change extends historical scholarship misstated the name of a Enron scandal broke. against female circumcision; she is a Liberian an existing policy of prosecutorial discretion temple near a site where excavation has come woman who underwent the procedure. in prioritizing the deportation of certain to a halt. It is the Temple of Apollo Epicurius, 11 June 2012 individuals rather than being an executive not Epicurean Apollo. A study has forecast that cumulative Chinese An article on Wednesday about officials of order. direct investment in Europe could reach Armenia and Azerbaijan who blamed each A story Wednesday about harassment $500bn over the next decade, not $500bn other publicly on Tuesday for the war they King Edward VIII abdicated his throne to of women in Egypt and the Middle East a year in the region by 2020 as incorrectly have fought for more than 20 years over the marry American divorcee Wallis Simpson. misidentified a U.S. group founded by Holly stated in an article on June 7. disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh – a Because of a reporting error, the wrong king Kearl to help fight the problem. The group is day after the presidents of the United States, was named in an article on Page 1 of the Life Stop Street Harassment. Owing to a production error the word ‘no’ Russia and France had called for a peaceful section in the June 18 edition of the Register. was missed from the following sentence in settlement – misidentified the region of the The surname of Ilias Manousaridis, president Paul Hayward’s Sunday Telegraph article conflict in some editions. It is the South A critic’s notebook article on Friday about of the municipal trade-workers’ union in ‘Abuse casts an ugly and growing cloud’: Caucasus, not the North Caucasus. the Human Rights Watch Film Festival at Greece, was misspelled in one reference as ‘Plainly anti-semitic abuse is NO more the Walter Reade Theater, which includes Manousarides in about garbage problems in acceptable than skinbased hostility.’ A picture caption on June 1 with an article the film “The Invisible War,” about rape in the city of Thessaloniki. about the opposition to intervention in the United States military, misstated the “This Day in History” on Page 17A on Syria by the Russian Orthodox Church military’s procedures for reporting rape. Marine Corps Lt. Col. Douglas King is Friday had an incorrect date for the Prophet misidentified the position held within the A victim can report a rape to a number of the officer in charge of the Joint Robotics Muhammad’s death. He died in 632. church hierarchy of the clergymen shown. people including a commander; a commander Repair Detachment-Afghanistan. on U.S. They are bishops, not priests. is not the only person to whom it can be military robots used in the Afghanistan war In a review of crime novels in the edition reported. In describing another film in the incorrectly omitted his first name and full of July 7th reference was made in error to An article on Saturday about the Obama festival, “Call Me Kuchu,” which centers on title. “Yeats’s damning of Ireland as a sow eating administration’s new policy allowing some a Ugandan gay-rights activist who was killed, its own farrow”. The author of the statement younger immigrants to avoid deportation the article referred incorrectly to the term 13 June 2012 was James Joyce. The reviewer confused and obtain work permits misstated, in kuchu. Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender An article on May 18 about the prosecution’s two references. Because of the nature of the some editions, part of the age qualifications Ugandans use it to refer to themselves; it is closing arguments in the trial in Philadelphia clash of religious faith versus hard evidence established by the new rule. It applies to not derogatory slang for homosexual. of Msgr. William J. Lynn, the first Roman in Brian McGilloway’s novel The Nameless people who came to the United States as Catholic official to be tried for covering up Dead, he was referring to Yeats’s poem children and were no more than 30 years Swiss & Global Asset Management in child sexual abuses of others, misstated the Blood on the Moon, where Yeats wrote of the old – not “under 30 years old” – at the time Zurich had about $84.7 billion in assets year that Monsignor Lynn compiled of a list “pragmatical, preposterous pig of a world, its the policy was changed by the administrative under management at the end of March. An of active priests suspected of abuses. It was farrow that so solid seem/Must vanish on the action last week. item about investors’ strategies in dealing 1994, not 2004. instant if the mind but change its theme.” with the Greek elections incorrectly said the A-section articles on June 14 and 15 firm had about $115 billion in assets under An article on Tuesday about UN reports of The headline on a June 10 Page One article misstated, in some editions, the Obama management at the end of March. intense fighting between the Syrian military incorrectly said that Spanish banks had administration’s budget request for military and opposition forces in several locations requested a bailout. The Spanish government and economic aid to Pakistan in fiscal 2013. A story (“Nautical talk”) on Page 1 of the across Syria on Monday misidentified a city requested international assistance that would The proposed amount is $2.2 billion, not $3.5 June 10 Magazine section misstated the year near the hamlet of Qubeir, where at least 49 go into a fund designated to help the banks. billion. in a reference to British Adm. Lord Nelson civilians were reported killed in a June 6 An earlier request by Spain for direct aid to turning “a blind eye” during the Battle of massacre. Qubeir is near Hama, not Homs. banks was rejected. 21 June 2012 Copenhagen. The battle occurred in 1801. The headline and some versions of an article FOLLOWING an item published on June 9, 09 June 2012 on the Financial pages incorrectly suggested 18 June 2012 former PM Gordon Brown asks us to point Paul Lendvai did not work for the Communist that the Federal Reserve had injected $267bn An article about how the financial crisis out that both he and Mrs Brown attended secret police, as incorrectly stated in a review into the US economy. In fact the Fed’s is affecting American politics attributed the Parliamentary celebration for the Queen of his book, Hungary Between Democracy announcement on Wednesday was of an deregulation of the banks to the Glass- at Westminster Hall and were present last and Authoritarianism, on June 2. He was an extension to Operation Twist, a scheme to Steagall act. It was the 1999 repeal of that Sunday at the Fife celebration in Dunfermline enlisted regular soldier in the internal militia. buy and sell Treasury bills worth $267bn in act, also known as the Banking Act of 1933, Abbey, after which Mr Brown paid tribute to equal quantities in an attempt to reduce long- which lifted restrictions on banks (US voters the Queen’s sixty years of service. They will A column on Page B1 of Tuesday’s editions term interest rates; there was no net injection want someone to reflect upon their frailties, also be attending a special lunch in honour of incorrectly estimated the number of Africans of money into the economy. 18 June, page 25). her Majesty next month. who died during slave voyages to the Americas. According to Emory University’s A story from The Associated Press in ‘DREAM Act stalled, Obama halts Newport’s Touro Synagogue, America’s Slave Trade Database, about 1.8 million Tuesday’s Business section about a speech deportations for young illegal immigrants’ – oldest existing synagogue, was dedicated in Africans died during the voyages: roughly by Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt The original version of this story misstated 1763. Mark Patinkin’s column in Sunday’s 12.5 million were shipped and about 10.7 incorrectly quoted him as saying that Google the nature of the policy change made by the Journal misstated its age and incorrectly million arrived. had succeeded “with its goal of making Obama administration. The change extends described it as the nation’s first. information accessible to the masses.” an existing policy of prosecutorial discretion 08 June 2012 Schmidt did not make this statement. in prioritizing the deportation of certain A National Association of Realtors survey The Sept. 11, 2001, attacks at the World Trade individuals rather than being an executive order. said international purchases of U.S. Center took the lives of 343 New York City 20 June 2012 homes were equally split between foreign firefighters and paramedics. The number was An article on June 5 about a promise by 17 June 2012 nonresidents and those who have recently incorrect in a story yesterday about a medal Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of A Travel section story June 10 about the immigrated or are temporary visa holders. A awards ceremony for firefighters. Israel to increase efforts to deter, detain and Dead Sea included a map of Israel that did Tuesday incorrectly referred to “nonforeign deport illegal migrants misstated the status of not delineate the West Bank. residents” rather than foreign nonresidents. 07 June 2012 Israel’s mechanism for registering legitimate The manager of Mitt and Ann Romney’s refugees. Such a system was set up in 2009, An article last Sunday about the growing 12 June 2012 blind trust sold the couple’s shares in dozens under the country’s interior ministry; it is violence among indigenous tribes in Brazil An article on Monday about efforts by of companies since this past summer. The not the case that Israel has no such refugee over the struggle for ancestral land misstated President Bashar al-Assad of Syria and his headline and first sentence of a U.S. News approval program. (Since the system began, the relationship between those people now family, along with public relations advisers article on Saturday incorrectly implied that 16 of 7,000 applications have been approved, struggling to recover tribal terrain and they have hired, to make the ruling family the Mr. Romney sold the shares himself. officials said.) Brazil’s original inhabitants. They are the face of a more Westernized and open Syria descendants, not the ancestors. misidentified the organization with which A June 2 A-section article about Defense An article on June 6 about the recent Andrew Tabler, an expert on Syria who was Secretary Leon E. Panetta detailing the deterioration in the tense relationship A news analysis article last Sunday about the quoted, is affiliated. It is the Washington Pentagon’s focus on the Pacific incorrectly between Iran and Azerbaijan because of the legal difficulty of prosecuting people who Institute for Near East Policy – not the described the 285 battle-force ships that make expanding military cooperation between leak classified information misstated part of Institute for Middle Eastern Studies. up the U.S. naval fleet as battleships. The Azerbaijan and Israel misidentified the the name a statute intended to allow them to battleship is a specific class of warship, and area controlled by Armenia that causes be tried without revealing secrets in court. It An article on Friday about malnourishment the last U.S. battleship was decommissioned the Azerbaijan exclave of Nakhichevan is the Classified Information Procedures Act, in India despite programs to distribute in 1992. to be cut off from the rest of that country not the Classified Information Protection Act. its bountiful grain crops misspelled the and accessible only through Iran. It is surname of a specialist on food policy and 06 June 2012 the province of Zangezur, not Nagorno- 16 June 2012 misidentified his profession. He is Biraj An article on May 29 about Mitt Romney’s Karabakh. St. Thomas More was beheaded for refusing Patnaik, not Patniak, and while he advises the appearance at a Memorial Day tribute in San to pledge allegiance to King Henry VIII. A Indian Supreme Court on food issues, he is Diego erroneously attributed a distinction to A campaign notebook article on Tuesday story on Friday’s front page gave the wrong not a lawyer. his candidacy. He will be the first Republican about a bus tour by Mitt Romney and Roman numeral for the monarch. nominee not to have served in the military his efforts to brush up on his sometimes An article on Friday about Spain’s latest since Thomas Dewey, who was the nominee awkward banter with voters referred 15 June 2012 government bond sale referred incorrectly in both 1944 and 1948; he will not be the first incorrectly to the role of Naomi Wolf in the An article on Monday about a lawsuit filed to the owners of a majority of Spain’s debt. such Republican nominee since WWII. 2000 presidential campaign of Al Gore, who against the New York Police Department for Sixty-seven percent of Spain’s bonds are was also criticized for his stilted campaign its handling of a traffic death investigation owned by domestic investors, including An obituary on Monday about the actor style. Ms. Wolf advised Mr. Gore on women’s made an erroneous comparison in describing banks, pension funds and insurance Richard Dawson, the longtime host of the issues and on outreach to young voters; the frequency of traffic deaths in New York companies; banks alone do not own that much. game show “Family Feud,” included a 8 quotation from Mr. Dawson in which he each day at the Big Sandy plant in Kentucky. differ in this regard from the previous five for New York State Policy, did not say that an referred incorrectly to an incident involving It is about 90 rail carloads, not nine. presidents of Mexico. increase in the minimum wage could make the singer Petula Clark. Mr. Dawson said Ms. some families ineligible for the credit. Clark had once appeared on a television show An Op-Ed article on May 25 comparing the ‘Palestinian Paralympians visit Jerusalem with Nat King Cole on which he kissed her situation in Greece to that of the Byzantine holy site’ was amended because it referred The dioceses of Pittsburgh and Dallas on the cheek, leading many stations in the Empire in the 13th century misstated the to “tens of thousands” of Palestinians in are among the plaintiffs suing the Obama South to cancel the show because she was location of four bronze horses that were Gaza being disabled as a result of Israeli administration over a requirement that white and Mr. Cole was black. In fact Ms. looted from Constantinople in 1204 and military operations. This has been amended employers cover contraception in workers’ Clark appeared in 1968 with Harry Belafonte, moved to Venice. The horses are in the to “thousands”. A 2011 Palestinian Central health plans. A page-one article Tuesday not Mr. Cole, on a show in which she touched museum inside the Basilica of Saint Mark; Bureau of Statistics survey puts the number incorrectly described Pittsburgh and Dallas his arm during a musical number; a sponsor replicas – not the originals – stand atop the of disabled people in Gaza at 38,000, but as archdioceses. representative asked that the number be dome of the basilica. does not give a breakdown of how many reshot, but it was not, and there were no were disabled as a result of Israeli military A May 24 article about a State Department widespread cancellations. A story on Page 1A on Wednesday about Mitt operations. campaign to counter al-Qaeda propaganda Romney’s campaign stop in Craig should incorrectly reported that cyber experts 05 June 2012 have said northwestern Colorado accounts An article last Sunday about the latest had hacked into the group’s sites to An incorrect caption appeared under a for nearly 60 percent of the state’s coal developments in Egypt’s presidential race replace its rhetoric with information about military insignia on Page F1 Sunday with production. Also, the story should have said misstated, in some copies, the given name of Yemeni civilians killed in terrorist strikes. an article about Mikey Weinstein, whose that the “very serious development” referred the socialist and Arab nationalist candidate U.S. officials did post such information, Military Religious Freedom Foundation to by Colorado Mining Association president in the tradition of Gamar Abdel Nasser. He is mimicking the format used by the group, but opposes what it views as improper Stuart Sanderson was 2010 state legislation Hamdeen Sabahi, not Habdeed. they did so on publicly accessible forums. proselytizing within the military by that will eliminate about 1,000 megawatts of They did not gain unauthorized access to Christian service members. The insignia, electric generation on the Front Range that A column on May 13 about Jean Renoir’s sites, and they did not alter content already which Weinstein challenged because of its is currently powered by coal and replace that 1937 film “Grand Illusion” misstated the on the sites. apparent religious references, belonged to with natural gas. nationality of Erich von Stroheim, who an Air Force fighter squadron that has since starred in the movie. He was born in Vienna, 24 May 2012 been inactivated. The incorrect caption said Yesterday’s editorial referring to Queen and came to the US in his 20s. He was not A Diary item (24 May, page 33) said 40 black the insignia belonged to a Marine fighter Elizabeth’s annus horribilis noted “it all German. and Asian parliamentarians had gathered for squadron that had been the focus of a similar reached a head in 1992 when her sons “a photograph to celebrate the election of the Weinstein challenge. Charles and Andrew separated from their An opinion essay on May 20 about the effect 20th century’s first minority MPs 25 years wives, her sister Anne divorced, and Windsor of the debt crisis on Spanish democracy ago”. Several readers have pointed out that ‘MF Global chief Jon Corzine criticised over Castle was severely damaged by fire”. The referred incorrectly to a constitutional there are two other post-1900 minority-ethnic handling of firm before collapse’ replaced an sentence should has read “their sister Anne amendment, adopted in September, which members of parliament who were elected earlier article which said incorrectly in the divorced”. includes a deficit-reduction clause. It was before the Second World War: Mancherjee text and headline that Jon Corzine was the the second change made to Spain’s 1978 Bhownagree (Conservative, Bethnal current boss of Goldman Sachs. Corzine left 30 May 2012 Constitution, not the first. Green, 1895-1906) and Shapurji Saklatvala Goldman Sachs in 1999. He went on to be An article Wednesday about concerns among (Communist/Labour, Battersea North, 1922- elected as a US senator and then governor of Greek businesses that the country might 26 May 2012 23 and 1924-29). New Jersey before taking over as CEO and leave the euro and return to its previous An article that started on the front page chairman of MF Global in 2010. currency, the drachma, misstated the amount of Friday’s Business section inaccurately An article on Monday about gay rights of money that has been withdrawn from portrayed the Illinois Environmental advocates’ calling for leniency in the The Philippines’ former president, Gloria Greek banks since September 2009. It is Protection Agency’s stance on a coal-to-gas sentencing of a man who used a webcam at Macapagal Arroyo, is being detained at about 72 billion euros, or $91 billion – not facility proposed for Chicago’s Southeast Rutgers to spy on his roommate, who later a government hospital. A May 30 article 250 billion euros. Side. The IEPA opposes using pollution killed himself, referred incorrectly to the about corruption trials in the Philippines credits from an old facility on the same site to publication of an op-ed article about the case incorrectly implied that Renato Corona, her The Port of Longview in Washington State offset emissions from the new facility. by Jim McGreevey, the former New Jersey former chief of staff, is being detained. is the top departure point for U.S. timber governor, and also misstated part of the name headed to China. An article in some editions A graphic in Tuesday’s A+E section about of a magazine for gay people. The op-ed 02 June 2012 on Tuesday incorrectly said it is the Port of horses in films repeated an urban myth article was published in The Star-Ledger of A May 30 A-section article about the Tacoma. about the meaning of Frau Blucher’s name Newark last month, not “this month.” And significance for the Mormon Church of Mitt in “Young Frankenstein.” Blucher does not the magazine is Out in Jersey, not Out in New Romney’s presidential nomination misquoted An Ephraim Hardcastle item last week mean glue factory. Jersey. journalist Jon Meacham as referring to suggested that the New Statesman appeared “the leaders of the church,” rather than to have boosted its coverage of Jewish affairs In his May 20 column, Steve Chapman said A story about the struggles faced by Maine’s “the founders of the church.” The quotation following the departure of senior political that China has let its currency decline. It has poor that appeared on Page B2 of Thursday’s should have read: “This is in a way a natural writer Mehdi Hasan. Mr Hasan informs us let its currency appreciate. paper said that a man named Avery, who development in the history of Mormonism. that in fact he has not yet left and that the spoke Wednesday during a program at Joseph Smith and the founders of the church recent British Jewish edition was his idea. Mexico’s election watchdog, called IFE, Husson University, had to cut his work hours clearly saw America as the new Jerusalem, measures content of television coverage of back from 16 hours to 14 hours a week to and therefore for an adherent of the faith to A picture caption on May 18 with an article presidential candidates. In some editions retain his health coverage. That referred to have such a central role in the life of a nation about the appointment of a temporary cabinet Thursday, an article on a revolt against the his previous job. He now works 20 hours a would have been something they dreamed of.” in Greece to handle the country’s affairs until country’s two networks incorrectly said it month as an Americans with Disabilities Act a second general election is held misstated doesn’t measure such content. researcher for the University of Illinois. 01 June 2012 part of the name of the far-right party whose A story on Page D1 on Friday about an members remained seated as all others in the A May 16 A-section article about Defense The Hadal Zone is the area of the ocean from allegedly fraudulent gold investment scheme Greek Parliament stood for the swearing-in Secretary Leon E. Panetta curtailing flights 6,000 metres below sea level down to the in Kenya incorrectly referred to it as a of three Muslim members. It is the Golden of F-22 Raptor fighter jets over safety deepest points, not a region in the Himalayas “golden brick” scheme. The proper term Dawn party, not New Dawn. concerns, incorrectly said that the Air Force as incorrectly stated on Wednesday in the is a Goldenberg scheme, which refers to a has 188 of the planes. It has 187. The article text with a graphic. political scandal in Kenya involving the sale Queen Elizabeth II is marking her 60th also incorrectly said that the Air Force had of gold that occurred in the early 1990s. anniversary as queen of Great Britain this deployed F-22s to the Middle East for the first Eric Noll, Nasdaq OMX Group Inc.’s head year. An article published online Wednesday time this spring. In fact, some of the aircraft of transaction services, said the exchange A May 20 El Paso Times story incorrectly incorrectly indicated it was her 50th participated in a training exercise there in would have slowed down Facebook Inc.’s characterized the U.S. Conference of anniversary. 2009. initial public offering if the exchange had Catholic Bishops’ position on same-sex known the extent of technical problems that marriage. A question-and-answer section on 28 May 2012 Veterinarians take blood samples from dogs plagued the launch. A front-page article in the conference’s Web site states the church’s A drawback of further use of the European bitten by snakes to determine the extent of some editions Wednesday incorrectly said the opposition to same-sex marriage and tells Central Bank providing three-year funding to the bite and amount of venom released, not exchange would have pulled the plug on the Catholics to vote against making it legal. banks is that banks are running out of eligible to determine the type of snake. An article IPO. collateral. A graphic accompanying the published in the May 23 New Mexican An article on Wednesday about the Brussels Beat column in the Friday-Sunday stated otherwise. There is no blood test to A page-one article Monday about the worsening relationship between American edition incorrectly said banks are running out determine the type of snake. correlation between executive pay and law-enforcement officials and the Mexican of eligible capital. company performance compared the Army because of the biggest military 25 May 2012 compensation of CEOs in 2011 with corruption case in Mexico in recent years An obituary on May 16 about the author An article on Wednesday about black shareholder returns at their companies from misstated the type of salaries paid to three Carlos Fuentes referred incorrectly to the Mormons’ views of the presidential 2009 through 2011. A chart accompanying generals and a lieutenant colonel accused of political career of Gen. Antonio Lopez de candidates misstated the date President the article illustrated a different comparison, supplementing their official incomes with Santa Anna, the inspiration for a 2008 opera Obama endorsed same-sex marriage. It was between CEO pay in 2011 and shareholder drug profits. They receive government – not for which Mr. Fuentes wrote the libretto. May 9 – not “last Wednesday”. returns in 2011. civil servant – salaries. Although he was president of Mexico for many years, he was not in office during the A May 24 photo caption accompanying A May 16 Metro article about the Catholic A Corporate News article Thursday about Texas Revolution. an article about Prince Charles’ Canadian Archdiocese of Washington criticizing Silicon Valley’s reaction to Facebook Inc.’s visit incorrectly said Prince Philip is the Georgetown University’s invitation to Health initial public offering of stock quoted Mary An article Monday about an ultra-Orthodox Duke of Windsor. In fact, he is the Duke of and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Meeker, an investment partner at venture- rally sponsored by a rabbinical group to Edinburgh. Sebelius to speak at graduation misstated the capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & discuss the dangers of the Internet described timing of the announcement of the federal Byers, as saying that Facebook “is a great incorrectly an organization that is linked A Political Memo article on Thursday about rule on birth-control insurance coverage, company, and it will do very well over time.” to the group. The organization, Technology the risks of President Obama’s attacks on which Sebelius authored. The rule was The article should have disclosed that her Awareness Group, is a nonprofit that provides Mitt Romney’s career in private equity formally announced in January, but a draft of firm is an investor in Facebook. advice and technical support to people misstated the percentage of campaign the rule was announced in August. seeking to filter the Internet; it is not a donations given by securities and investment A May 24 article about the anger of people on software company that sells Internet filtering firms that have gone to Republicans so far in 23 May 2012 the Mosquito Coast of Honduras over drug software. the 2012 election cycle. It is 59 percent, not There was an error in yesterday’s Analysis trafficking in their area described incorrectly 57 percent. story on Egypt. The last sentence should a group known as Masta, whose leader called 27 May 2012 have read: “In the longer term, however, and on American antidrug forces to leave the area The name of Florida’s Fort Mose An article on Monday about calls for Gov. regardless of the outcome of the presidential and be replaced by those who can help with (pronounced Moh-Say), the first free Andrew M. Cuomo to work more assertively elections, the Brotherhood’s political party development. Masta, an acronym that stands community of ex-slaves, founded in 1738, to raise New York State’s minimum wage will have to prove to the sceptics that it too for Miskitu Asla Takanka, or Unity of the was misspelled in a question and answer with misattributed a comment about an effect has made its transition from the Mubarak era Miskitu People, is an association of various historian J. Michael Francis in the May 20 of the proposed legislation on families to the new democratic Egypt.” indigenous communities on the coast. It is not Perspective. receiving the earned-income tax credit. It an ethnic group. was the Senate majority leader, Dean G. A front-page story headlined A May 15 Page One article about Enrique Skelos, a Republican, who pointed out that $1,000,000,000,000 (17 May) said that the 31 May 2012 Pena Nieto, Mexico’s leading presidential poor families receiving the earned-income Centre for Economic and Business Research An article on Wednesday about the use of candidate, incorrectly described his level tax credit could stand to lose some benefits had estimated that a disorderly collapse of the natural gas instead of coal as fuel for power of English proficiency. Pena Nieto speaks if the minimum wage was increased. Russell euro would result in a 5% drop in eurozone plants misstated the amount of coal burned English and, therefore, if elected, would not Sykes, a senior fellow at the Empire Center GDP, amounting to $1tn loss. The figure of 9

$1tn was a rough estimate of 5% of GDP for The study found that 4 percent of a sample 16 May 2012 Callaway, in the case of Lt. William Calley, the whole of the EU, not just the eurozone. of 203 corporate professionals met a clinical A column commenting on what was revealed convicted of murder for his role in the My Lai threshold for being described as psychopaths, by the body language of François Hollande massacre. Mr. Callaway reduced Lieutenant One of the photographs used to illustrate a not that 10 percent of people who work on and Angela Merkel when they met in Calley’s sentence to 10 years from 20 years, feature about India’s growing gun culture Wall Street are clinical psychopaths. In Germany this week observed that meetings and Lieutenant Calley was paroled later that showed a woman pulling back the slide of a addition, the study, in the journal Behavioral between heads of state were usually over in year; Mr. Callaway did not pardon him. handgun. The caption incorrectly described Sciences and the Law, was not based on a a flash. In this case only one head of state the weapon as a revolver. It was a semi- representative sample; the authors of the was present. Angela Merkel is Germany’s 13 May 2012 automatic pistol, without a revolving chamber study say that the 4 percent figure cannot chancellor and head of government, but its In an obituary May 10 for former Associated (Indian women take up arms against threat of be generalized to the larger population of head of state is President Joachim Gauck. Press photographer Horst Faas, the AP violence, 22 May, page 22). corporate managers and executives. incorrectly reported that Faas photographed John Bellingham murdered the British Prime a ski-masked Palestinian terrorist at the Credit institutions in Greece and other An article on Thursday about an interview Minister Spencer Perceval with a single-shot Munich Olympic Village building where troubled euro-zone economies have received with President Bashar al-Assad of Syria pistol in 1812. Jeffrey Collins’s book review Israeli athletes were held hostage in 1972. financing from national central banks conducted by a Russian state television (Bookshelf, May 14) incorrectly stated that The photo was taken by AP photographer referred to as emergency liquidity assistance. station misspelled the station’s name. It is Bellingham shot him with a revolver. Kurt Strumpf. In a chart that accompanied an item Saturday Rossiya 24, not Russiya 24. on Greece, this funding was incorrectly A map with the continuation of a May 14 In the story “Sex toy boom has mummies described as extended lending arrangements. 19 May 2012 Page One article about the United States buzzing” (News, last week) we stated that a An article on Friday about the White House’s training African troops to help bolster survey by Relate, the counselling charity, had The Wall Street Journal’s Marcus Walker drafting of a group of 45 companies to invest security in Somalia incorrectly labeled a found that women were becoming less shy coined the term drachmail. An article in projects aimed at helping the world’s region in the country’s far northwest as about sexual aids and now bought them at Tuesday about a growing lexicon for the poorest farmers contained two misstatements. Puntland. The region is actually Somaliland; high-street shops. In fact, these findings were euro-zone crisis incorrectly said it was Faisal The name of the group is the New Alliance Puntland lies directly to the east. not based on the Relate survey. Islam, economics editor of the U.K.’s Channel for Food Security and Nutrition, not the 4 news, who came up with the term. Alliance for Food and Nutrition Security, and 15 May 2012 A panel accompanying a report a $375 million pledge by an Indian company, An article about the challenges facing the said that the Greek facing physics research in the United States irrigation technology to Africa, is not final. said the Treasury had taken on its £37bn physician Alcmaeon concluded “that the described incorrectly an experiment to study pension deficit. That figure was for pension brain is the central organ for sensation and particles known as neutrinos. The experiment A news analysis article on Friday about liabilities, which were balanced against not the heart, as previously believed by is an effort to investigate why the universe Europe’s preparedness for Greece’s possible £28.5bn of assets, leaving a deficit of about Aristotelian thinkers”. Alcmaeon, born about is made of matter and not antimatter. The exit from the euro zone misstated the £8.5bn (Postal rivals eye up rich pickings in 510BC, could not have overturned the ideas point is not to investigate why the universe is relative cost of such an exit to Germany’s leafy suburbs, 14 May, page 21). of Aristotelian thinkers. Aristotle lived some “made of matter and antimatter.” government. The actual cost, about $127 time later, from 384BC to 322BC. billion, which was noted correctly, is 3 An article on Friday about the possibility that The name of defense contractor Northrop percent of Germany’s annual economic the EU might ease the insurance-coverage 12 May 2012 Grumman was misspelled as Northrup output, not less than one-tenth of 1 percent. provision contained in its planned embargo An article on Friday about an escalation Grumman in a photo credit that appeared in of Iranian oil misstated Iran’s daily oil in the quarrel between China and the a May 18 promotional item for Wall Street An article on Tuesday about Americans’ production. It is approximately 3.6 million Philippines over an island in the South China Journal Weekend. sentiments regarding President Obama’s barrels a day, according to the Energy Sea misstated, in some editions, the day on decision to endorse same-sex marriage Information Administration of the US, not which anti-Chinese rallies were planned in An article on Monday about men who enter misstated the degree of support among racial 2.2 million barrels, which is the amount of the Philippines. They were held on Friday; job fields dominated by women misstated the groups when four NY Times/CBS News polls Iran’s estimated daily exports. (As stated in they were not scheduled for today. increase in male registered nurses between taken over the past year were aggregated. the article, most of Iran’s exports go to Asia.) 2000 and 2010. While the actual number of 61 percent of self-identified Democrats who An article last Saturday about an male nurses almost doubled, as the article are white support legalizing marriage for An article on Thursday about the intimidation announcement by the Roman Catholic noted, the percentage itself rose to 10.5 gay couples, not 45 percent. 18 percent are some ultra-Orthodox Jews encounter in their archbishop of Philadelphia that five priests percent from 8.4 percent, not to “almost 12 opposed to any legal recognition, not 28 community when they come forward with under investigation for sexual abuse would be percent from just over 9 percent.” percent. allegations of child sexual abuse misspelled removed from the ministry included several the surname of a rabbi who is executive vice errors. The priests’ removal did not mean A May 19 Page One article about children A Views article on Tuesday about the president of Agudath Israel of America, a they were “defrocked;” they are still priests. of elite Chinese families attending U.S. overselling of Africa’s successes gave the powerful ultra-Orthodox organization. He is (The error also appeared in the headline.) universities misstated the annual tuition wrong figure for foreign direct investment Rabbi Chaim Dovid Zwiebel, not Zweibel. Three other priests who were exonerated will at Britain’s Harrow School, which a son in sub-Saharan Africa in 2010; it was (The error was repeated in an article on return to their parishes at some point, but of ousted Communist Party official Bo $32 billion. Trade among the countries in Friday about the Brooklyn district attorney, not “immediately.” And while it is indeed Xilai attended before eventually arriving at Southeast Asia is 25 percent of the region’s who must decide how to handle such cases.) the case that priests found unsuitable for Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. total trade volume, not 60 percent. ministry are “not allowed to wear a collar,” Harrow’s yearly fees total about $48,000, or 14 May 2012 the archbishop, Charles J. Chaput, did not $16,000 per term, not $16,000 per year. A March 27 Fine Print column by Walter An article on Thursday about a New address that issue during a news conference. Pincus on the militarization of space York City health department campaign 22 May 2012 incorrectly attributed statements to Lt. Gen. to encourage hospitals to stop giving out 11 May 2012 An article about an election pledge made by Richard Formica, the head of the Army free baby formula in order to help promote Christie’s $388.5 million auction on Tuesday François Hollande to withdraw all French Space and Missile Defense Command. breast-feeding misstated a recommendation was the highest contemporary-art sale total in combat troops from Afghanistan by the end Formica did not say that satellite navigation of the American Academy of Pediatrics. the company’s history, but its second-highest of the year said that other European countries systems “have to be defended and also have It recommends continuing breast-feeding total sale. In some editions Wednesday, an had already begun drawdowns and “the redundancy if they can’t be protected in the beyond six months, while introducing other article incorrectly said it was the highest total Danes are mostly out of Helmand”. In fact heavens.” He also did not say: “Since these food, for a year or more – not continuing for sale in Christie’s history. Denmark is reducing the number of troops new expensive military systems may be “up to” a year, while introducing other food. by 100, leaving about 650 in Afghanistan, subject to far less costly asymmetric attacks, The Obama administration’s auto bailout mostly in Helmand, this year although some the U.S. has now entered a new arms race for An article on April 14 about the economic gave up to 20% of General Motors to the have shifted from active combat to a training which as far as experts can see there is no problems in California, as measured between United Auto Workers union through its role. possible acceptable treaty arrangement on the east and west instead of the state’s usual retiree health-care trust and warrants. horizon.” north-south divide, referred incorrectly to Karl Rove’s May 10 op-ed, mistakenly An April 21 A-section article about the data looking at the gap between the per identified the company as Ford. Also, the reaction of the Leadership Conference 18 May 2012 capita income in the San Francisco Bay Area GM bondholders whose investments were of Women Religious to a crackdown by An article on Thursday about Europeans’ compared with the Inland Empire. The article virtually wiped out by the bailout were not the Vatican, which accuses it of “radical gloomy view of Afghanistan’s future erroneously used dollar figures – saying that secured creditors. feminism,” incorrectly said that the group has misstated the financial condition of Greece, the gap between the two communities grew 55,000 members. The conference has 1,500 the only country exempted from a list of to more than $40,000, and that it was $26,000 An article on Thursday about a White House members, who represent the vast majority of NATO partners the United States expects four decades ago – rather than using the per announcement on Wednesday that President the country’s 57,000 nuns. to contribute aid for Afghan security forces. capita income index used by the researchers. Vladimir V. Putin of Russia had decided not Greece’s government has rescheduled much (By 2009, the San Francisco Bay Area per to attend a summit meeting of world leaders An editorial on Saturday about American and of its debt; it has not defaulted. capita income was 86 percent higher than the in Maryland next week misstated, in some NATO policy in Afghanistan misstated the Inland Empire, a gap that had grown since editions, the circumstances under which Afghan government’s annual contribution to 17 May 2012 1969, when the per capita income was 41 Mr. Putin became Russia’s prime minister the army and police force after 2014. It will Annual deportations from the US have percent higher than in the Inland Empire.) after his first two terms as president ended be $500 million, not $500,000. averaged 396,000 under the presidency of in 2008. He was appointed by his successor, Barack Obama compared with 251,000 on An article Tuesday about a Texas landowner, Dmitri A. Medvedev; he was not elected to The US steel industry employed 150,700 average under George W. Bush. Mr Obama Julia Trigg Crawford, and her objection to the position. people in 2011, one-third as many as in is not deporting almost three times as many TransCanada’s effort to appropriate some of 1981. An article Monday incorrectly said the people as Mr Bush, as stated in a letter on her property for the Keystone XL pipeline, 10 May 2012 industry employed about 95,000 people in May 15. described incorrectly “diluted bitumen,” the A graphic highlighting which European 2011. material that would be carried by the pipe. governments have fallen since the start of The caption on a picture accompanying Bitumen is very dense crude oil diluted with the economic crisis in 2008 contained some A May 21 A-section article about a a report on a possible Greek exit from liquid natural gas; it is not very dense crude errors. Slovenia, which is now governed by demonstration against NATO at the alliance’s the euro began “The Parthenon…” The mixed with sand and water. a right-leaning coalition should have been summit in Chicago incorrectly referred to photograph was in fact of the caryatid coloured blue, rather than red. Denmark in a decoration earned in Iraq by one of the porch of the Erectheion, also found on the A May 7 story, “Insurers Embrace ‘Virtual’ the 2008 map should have been coloured protesters, Mark Stach, as a NATO medal. Acropolis, but separate from the Parthenon Doctor Visits,” described how a 2010 ruling blue, not red. The graphic lacked a key, The medal, which Stach planned to return to ($1,000,000,000,000, 17 May). by the Texas Medical Board effectively which would have made sense of gradations protest the war in Afghanistan, was awarded blocks a physician from treating new in colour intended to pick out countries by the United States, not by NATO. An Op-Ed essay on May 10 about the debate patients via telemedicine. The rule restricts with governments that had fallen (Austerity over extending the low interest rate on a physicians from treating new patients from winners and losers, 8 May, page 8). 21 May 2012 federal student loan program incorrectly the patients’ homes. It does provide for a Activist Kim Young-hwan was secretly stated that college loans cannot be discharged virtual consultation, however, if that first- A story Tuesday about voter views on taken to Pyongyang via submarine in 1991 in bankruptcy, unlike nearly every other type time patient goes to “an established medical climate change failed to clarify that Sen. to meet North Korea’s first leader, Kim Il of debt. In fact, such loans can be discharged setting,” such as a clinic, EMS station or John McCain, R.-Arizona, opposed climate Sung. A World News article about South in rare cases, when borrowers are able to pharmacy equipped with diagnostic tools change-related legislation in 2009 but is open Korean activists in the Friday-Sunday edition show that repaying would cause undue and which is staffed by a nurse or pharmacist to other proposals to address global warming. incorrectly said he made the trip in May hardship. who could help the physician make a physical 1999. (“Seoul Seeks Activists’ Release”) evaluation of the patient. A quote in a 1A story Wednesday about A May 11 Page One article about Mitt the foiled al-Qaeda plot to blow up a U.S. 20 May 2012 Romney’s high school years incorrectly An obituary on April 20 about Stanley R. airliner was misattributed. Former Homeland An opinion essay on May 13 about ethics said that it was on Fox News Channel that Resor, who was secretary of the Army from Security secretary Michael Chertoff said, and capitalism misstated the findings of a Romney apologized for some of his pranks. 1965 to 1971, referred incorrectly to an action “You have to look at security as a series of 2010 study on psychopathy in corporations. Romney apologized on Fox News Radio. taken in 1974 by his successor, Howard H. layers. No one layer is flawless or foolproof.” 10

09 May 2012 neighborhood residents take them over An April 25 Page One article about Kris Under the rules of the Special Court that Christian activist Bob Fu learned of Chen misstated the number of unused lots in Kobach and Michael Hethmon, who heard the case of former Liberian President Guangcheng’s growing agitation over Brooklyn controlled by the Department of have helped write tougher laws on illegal Charles Taylor, sentences must be given in his situation in a hospital in Beijing on Housing Preservation and Development that immigration, incorrectly said that the a specified term of years. The Special Court Wednesday from a Twitter post from another it has made available to gardeners. Of the Immigration Reform Law Institute, for which can’t impose a life sentence or the death activist, Zeng Jinyan. Based on inaccurate department’s 673 lots, 20 are being used for Hethmon is general counsel, was labeled a penalty. A News article in the Friday-Sunday information from Mr. Fu, an In Depth temporary gardens, and it has also transferred “hate group” by the Southern Poverty Law edition incorrectly said his conviction carries article Monday incorrectly said Ms. Zeng 39 other lots to the Parks Department as more Center. The SPLC applied that designation to a possible life sentence. emailed Mr. Fu. (See: In Depth: Mistakes and permanent gardens; it has not made 141 lots the IRLI’s parent organization, the Federation Mixed Signals Preceded Deal on Dissident available, either temporarily or permanently. for American Immigration Reform. 29 April 2012 –- The Chen Saga Demonstrated How Much An opinion essay last Sunday about President An article last Sunday about Alan Z. Feuer, Distance and Suspicion Remain Between the Obama’s record as a wartime president An article on Thursday about a vote by the a New Yorker who reinvented himself and U.S. and China). misstated one of the countries where he has United Methodist Church against ending was often seen at society balls, included a embraced the use of drones or covert military investments tied to Israel misidentified quotation in which one of Mr. Feuer’s society A picture caption on Tuesday with an article units. It is Somalia, not Syria. the newspaper that published an article by friends misattributed an aphorism. While about mysterious dolphin and seabird deaths Desmond Tutu, the Anglican archbishop Henry David Thoreau is often credited with in Peru misidentified the dead bird shown. It A feature about how Bosnia has fared in the emeritus of Cape Town that likened the variations of the aphorism “Most men lead was a blue-footed booby, not a cormorant. 20 years since war broke out said a small Israeli occupation to apartheid in South lives of quiet desperation and die with their museum at one end of the tunnel under Africa. The article appeared in The Tampa song still inside them,” that is not what he A photo caption Tuesday accompanying the Sarajevo’s airport that served as the city’s Bay Times, not in The Tampa Tribune. wrote in Walden. He merely said, “The mass cover story on European elections and the lifeline during the Serb siege had been of men lead lives of quiet desperation.” economy mistranslated a sign carried by a closed. The writer had in mind the basement 03 May 2012 demonstrator in France. The sign read “Don’t of a house where the tunnel came out in An article on Tuesday about President An article about edible glitter for cupcakes Disappoint Us.” Dobrinja, on the city side of Sarajevo, which Obama’s decision to use a speech on Monday last week said the Food Standards Agency’s the owners showed to interested visitors. A to gently prod China to improve its human communications director Terrence Collis had Readers queried references to Armistice much larger museum at the tunnel entrance rights record, but not to discuss the case of written on the Agency’s website: ‘Remember Day in a headline and picture caption on the other side of the airport in Butmir is a prominent Chinese dissident lawyer said that non-toxic doesn’t mean that you can’t eat accompanying a report on François Hollande still open and offering tours of a section of to be under American protection in Beijing, it.’ In fact he wrote: ‘Remember that non- and Nicolas Sarkozy laying commemorative the tunnel (5 April, page 1). misstated the name of the high-level talks toxic doesn’t mean you can eat it.’ wreaths at the Arc de Triomphe on 8 May. between the countries that are set to begin To clarify: the French calendar refers to 8 An analysis piece on the trial of Charles there today. 27 April 2012 May as armistice day, but it is known in the Taylor at the special court for Sierra Leone An article about King Juan Carlos said he UK as Victory in Europe or VE Day for the in The Hague said his conviction had cost A March 5 Metro article about the recovery had come in for criticism recently for going date of Germany’s surrender at the end of $250m. In fact that is an approximate figure of the Chesapeake Bay oyster population on an all-expenses-paid hunting trip to the Second World Aar. Strictly speaking, for all the trials and investigations the special misstated the time frame of the first Botswana as Spain faced spending cuts and Armistice Day, 11 November, commemorates court has pursued. The Taylor trial is thought European navigation of local waters. The austerity measures. A photograph of the king the armistice signed at the end of the First to have cost up to $50m (27 April, page 2). earliest European explorers reached the area standing with a gun in front of an elephant World War. Hollande and Sarkozy laid in the 1500s, not the 1700s. Captain John was captioned as showing him “on his wreaths commemorating those who died in An article about European leaders Smith navigated and mapped the bay’s waters €10,000-a-day hunting safari in Botswana, both world wars (9 May, page 15). threatening to boycott the Euro 2012 final in the early 1600s. which had been hushed up before he fell and in Kiev, in protest at the persecution of the broke his hip”. In fact the photograph was Managers at Google Inc. must invest extra jailed Ukrainian opposition leader Yulia 02 May 2012 taken not on this trip, but during another effort to persuade women engineers to Tymoshenko, mentioned forthcoming “Duma A brief review of La Churreria last safari to Botswana some years ago. nominate themselves for promotions, but the elections”. The correct name of Ukraine’s Wednesday referred incorrectly to a tea company is successful in promoting women parliament is the Rada, or in full the ceremony when describing the bikinis, dainty An article on April 1 about concerns over engineers at about the same rate as men. Verkhovna Rada (4 May, page 21). triangular sandwiches without crusts. They radioactivity levels around former uranium An item in Monday’s Journal Report on would be appropriate for afternoon tea – not mines on Navajo territory in Arizona, Utah Women in the Economy failed to make clear ECB chief calls for growth pact to help high tea, which is a working-class meal. and New Mexico referred imprecisely to Bob that the company promotes men and women youth was amended because it referred to Darr, a public relations specialist who said engineers at about the same rate. youth unemployment over 50% in Spain and A headline in yesterday’s foreign pages that the federal government cannot afford to Germany. That should have been Spain and mistakenly referred to a suicide bombing in clean up all the mines. While he works for The opening paragraph of the last page Greece. Libya – it was in Syria. S.M. Stoller, a consulting firm that provides report, ‘Pratibha rides Gandhiji’s train to public affairs support to the Department of Pietermaritzburg’ (May 8), said: “Taking ‘Radioactive waste may be blighting 1,000 An April 17 Page One article about Defense Energy under contract, he is not a spokesman the journey back in time that transformed UK sites – MoD under fire after report finds Secretary Leon E. Panetta expressing regret for the department. the course of history...before he [Mahatma number of contaminated sites is far higher about the cost of his frequent flights home to Gandhi] was pushed out of the train at the than previously estimated’ was amended California on military airplanes incorrectly An article on Monday about an Pietermaritzburg station for refusing to because the original headline referred to said that during his years in Congress, announcement by Egypt’s state-owned move from a non-white compartment.” It nuclear waste instead of radioactive waste. Panetta paid for trips home personally. In natural gas company that it was ending a deal should have been “...move to a non-white fact, members of Congress pay for such travel to ship gas to Israel because of a payment compartment.” 05 May 2012 through a dedicated budget that is funded by dispute misstated the year the two countries European Union laws about correcting taxpayers. signed the Camp David peace accords. It 08 May 2012 governments’ excessive budget deficits have was 1978, not 1979. (The Camp David peace An early draft of an analysis of why Ken already been changed so that the size of 01 May 2012 treaty was signed in 1979.) Livingstone failed to become London’s mayor their structural deficits is taken into account. An article about Google’s Street View project was erroneously published due to confusion A World News Friday incorrectly said this said the company had been fined $25,000 by An article on Wednesday about the filing at the editing stage. The published early change depended on ratification of the EU’s the US Federal Communications Commission of a criminal complaint in connection with version contained an ambiguous phrase – the fiscal compact. for the unauthorised collection of data, the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico after the Jewish political establishment – that could including website details, usernames and explosion of the Deepwater Horizon drilling be seen to be inconsistent with Guardian An article on Friday about President Obama’s passwords. In fact the FCC fined Google for rig misstated the date in 2010 of the blast. It editorial guidelines. That phrase has now race as a continuing issue for some voters impeding and delaying its inquiry by failing was on April 20, not on April 10. been changed online to reflect the article as referred imprecisely to his position on the to respond to requests for documents and submitted in the final draft for publication (5 Keystone pipeline, one of the main quarrels information, but did not find that the data An article last Friday about Anthony May, page 2). that some Democrats have with him. While collection was unlawful (1 May, page 12). Loverde, the second person reinstated to the the president rejected TransCanada’s earlier military (with the same rank, pay and job that France’s debt outstanding totals 1.7 trillion application to build the full pipeline from An article on Thursday about the Pentagon’s he held when he was deployed to Iraq) since euros ($2.2 trillion). In some editions Canada to the gulf coast, he has made no review of anti-Islam themes taught in the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy was repealed Monday, a front-page article incorrectly said final decision on whether the project will go military classrooms gave an outdated name last September misspelled the surname of the France’s debt was 1.7 billion euros. forward. for a Defense Department school where legal director for the Servicemembers Legal students complained about the curriculum. It Defense Network. He is David McKean, not An article on Saturday about some bond A sentence in the report, ‘Cases filed against is the Joint Forces Staff College in Norfolk, David McCain. investors who are defying conventional Nityananda’s coronation’ (May 3, Tamil Va., not the Armed Forces Staff College. wisdom and buying Greek debt misspelled Nadu Page), said: “The seventh respondent 26 April 2012 part of the name of a Brazilian investment (Nityananda) does not practise celibacy and 30 April 2012 An article said Ford was facing the threat bank that is among the buyers. It is Banco is not a sanyasi (one who had relished worldly In some April 16 editions, a photo caption of its first outbreak of widespread industrial BTG Pactual – not BTG Pactuel. life)...” It should have been renounced, not with a Style article about the creation of action since the 1970s. While there was a relished. the Capitol’s Statue of Freedom incorrectly major strike in 1978 at the start of the wave An article on Friday about the diplomatic said that a stereo card is viewed through a of union walkouts that later became known crisis created when the Chinese dissident An article on Wednesday about an advocacy stereopticon. A stereo card – which contains as the winter of discontent, there have been Chen Guangcheng abruptly reversed his group’s effort to isolate Iran further by two photographs of the same scene, taken at significant strikes at the carmaker since then. decision to remain in China and then sought pressuring the International Monetary slightly different angles – is viewed through Professor Gregor Gall of the University of protection once again from the United States Fund to withdraw its holdings from Iran’s a stereoscope, which merges the images to Hertfordshire writes to point out that the last described the location of Mr. Chen’s home central bank or suspend Iran’s membership create a sense of depth. “major and comparable industrial action” village incorrectly in some editions. It is in misidentified a spokesman who said that since the 1978 strike was in 1988, when eastern China, not western. the I.M.F. is exempt from EU sanctions that ‘Spain faces crisis of huge proportions over employees at all of Ford’s UK plants took prohibit dealings with Iran’s central bank. unemployment and banks’ was corrected part in an 11-day strike over pay (26 April, Japan was last without nuclear power in 1970, The comment was by Michael Mann, a because the original subheading said the page 26). when the country’s then-two reactors were European Union spokesman, who was quoted Spanish banking sector may need a bailout of both offline for maintenance. A World News in a Bloomberg News report; the assertion up to £100m. That should have been £100bn. ‘French election descends into trench warfare Saturday incorrectly gave the date as 1966. was not by John Sullivan, a Treasury over Le Pen voters’ was corrected because Department spokesman in Washington. (As An article on Friday about a magnetic sense the original said Marshal Pétain was exiled A profile of Eugene Levy, the actor famed for the article noted, Mr. Sullivan did say the that helps birds navigate misidentified an after being convicted of treason. Pétain, his role in American Pie, stated: “He’s keen I.M.F. is exempt from US sanctions on Iran’s iron-containing substance found in a recent the leader of France’s Nazi collaborationist to be the average Joe – neither his nationality central bank.) analysis of beaks. It is ferrihydrite, not Vichy regime in the 1940s, was not exiled (Canadian) nor his race (Jewish) have been magnetite. (The study found that the cells but had his death sentence commuted to life the least bit important, he says, in forming An editorial on Sunday on North Carolina’s containing the substance were not involved in imprisonment. his comedic sensibility.” It is wrong to use forced sterilization program should have navigation.) the words “race” when applied to Jewish credited The Winston-Salem Journal for An article Monday about Egypt’s cancellation people. They are best described as a people its extensive coverage that encouraged An article on Thursday about the shooting of deliveries of natural gas to Israel in a or an ethnic group, not least because Jews officials to apologize and propose victim death of an unarmed young black man in payment dispute referred imprecisely to include those from a wide range of racial compensation. Georgia gave an unofficial height from the Israel’s relationship to Gaza, which is one backgrounds (27 April, page 12). Toombs County Sherriff’s Office for Norman of the causes of popular Egyptian anger at Friday 4 May 2012 Neesmith, who killed the young man. While Israel. While Gaza’s borders are controlled 06 May 2012 ‘Spain’s poorest region suffers 32% the authorities said Mr. Neesmith is 6’2”, by Israel, and the territory is subject to an An article in some editions last Sunday unemployment’ was corrected because the that was the height he gave them. As a height embargo Israel imposed in 2007, Gaza is no about a group of Brooklyn gardeners who original misspelled Vasco Núñez de Balboa chart in an accompanying picture taken longer occupied by Israel, which unilaterally identify vacant lots in the borough and help as Vasco Núñez de Bilbao. during his booking showed, he is closer to 5’11”. withdrew its military forces in 2005. (As the 11 article correctly noted, there is continued are six uranium production facilities in the This past week’s release of two prisoners al-Fatlawi, had accused two top elections occupation of the West Bank by Israel.) country, not six uranium mines. The article to El Salvador from the U.S. prison at officials of paying bribes in 2008. Fatlawi has also misstated the location of one of the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, was the first release since clarified that she misspoke, and that the An article on April 14 about Wal-Mart Stores’ facilities. It is in Utah, not New Mexico. of Guantanamo prisoners since January 2011. alleged bribes took place in October 2010. tapping of expertise from environmental A Friday incorrectly said it was the first groups to further its sustainability efforts In the article “We came, we stripped, we release since July 2010. 17 April 2012 referred incompletely to the relationship of conquered: feminists open up a bold new A page 1 report of the trial of Anders one such group, the Environmental Defense front” (Magazine, April 8) we said Taras 19 April 2012 Behring Breivik for last year’s bomb and Fund, to the company, which is controlled by Shevchenko was a 19th-century Russian poet. In our story headlined “No go for ‘second gun attacks in Norway said he told the court the Walton family. While the Environmental He was, in fact, a celebrated Ukrainian poet wage revolution’” published yesterday, we he acted in self-defence. Court interpreters Defense Fund receives no direct corporate and artist who defied the Russian authorities. quoted Minister of State for Manpower Tan later issued a clarification saying that this funding from Wal-Mart, it has received Chuan-Jin as saying that “mandating either was a misleading translation of his words and grants from the Walton Family Foundation An article last Sunday about steep population minimum wage levels or the percentage wage a better one would be that he acted “out of and a member of the Walton family serves on growth in Nigeria and elsewhere in growth...risks a loss of competitiveness and necessity”. (Breivik defiant as massacre trial its board of trustees. sub-Saharan Africa described Nigeria’s jobs, and an inevitable wage decline”. This opens, 17 April, page 1). geographical size incorrectly in comparing it was in the text of Mr Tan’s speech, but it was An article on Monday about a rally in to a less densely populated area of the United dropped when he delivered the speech. A Comment piece said the BBC Panorama Moscow in response to Patriarch Kirill I’s States. Nigeria, measuring about 357,00 programme had substantiated an call for the Russian Orthodox Church to square miles, is about 35 percent larger than A report in the Observatory column on “extraordinary allegation...that MI6 rolled defend itself against what he has called a Arizona and New Mexico combined, not April 10 about the effects of social stress the pitch for Tony Blair’s bizarre 2004 hug-in campaign of blasphemy misstated the number “roughly the size of” the states combined. on immunity in rhesus macaques described with Libya’s Colonel Gaddafi by apparently of times Vladimir V. Putin has been elected researchers’ findings incorrectly at one point. arranging for the CIA to kidnap Gaddafi’s Russia’s president. It is three, not two. A picture caption last Sunday with an article As the report correctly noted elsewhere, opponent in exile, Abdel Hakim Belhaj”. The about an agreement between Iran and six scientists who examined the monkeys’ white programme in question was not Panorama, 25 April 2012 world powers to hold a new round of talks in blood cells linked social stress to differences but Modern Spies. South Korea is lobbying to add the name Baghdad next month on Tehran’s disputed in the expression of nearly 1,000 genes – not “East Sea” to nautical charts for the body of nuclear program reversed the names of the to differences in the genes themselves. In a possible new e-books pricing model water separating Japan and Korea, currently two men shown in the foreground of a group resulting from Wednesday’s antitrust known as “Sea of Japan” on those charts. A of officials. Ahmet Davutoglu, the Turkish An article on Saturday about a low-voltage settlement between the Justice Department World News headline Monday incorrectly foreign minister, is at the right and Saeed model of a subway train that took passengers and three major publishers, retailers will said it wanted to use “East Sea” instead. Jalili, Iran’s chief negotiator, is 2nd from right. to Yankee Stadium for the team’s home be able to discount but the amount of total opener referred incorrectly to the time period discounting for all books over the course An obituary on Friday about Stanley R. The caption on a photograph featuring in which such models, known as Lo-V’s, of a year can’t be more than the retailers’ Resor, who as secretary of the Army from passengers on a tram in Jerusalem observing have made runs to the stadium. The models commissions from publishers. A chart with a 1965 to 1971 oversaw the troop buildup in a two-minute silence for Yom HaShoah, a day were decommissioned in 1969 and did not page-one article on Thursday incorrectly said Vietnam, misstated the number of US Army of remembrance for the 6 million Jews who run again until 2004, when they began to be “less” rather than more. troops there in both 1966 and 1968, and a died in the Holocaust, wrongly referred to the used occasionally for ceremonial purposes. correction in this space on Monday also city as the Israeli capital. The Guardian style It is not the case that “a Lo-V has made a run The byline for an article on Saturday about gave incorrect figures. The number of Army guide states: “Jerusalem is not the capital of to the stadium every year since 1917.” (In the opening of a trial of four men charged troops increased to about 360,000 in 1968 Israel; Tel Aviv is”. any case, Yankee Stadium did not come along with plotting a shooting spree in late 2010 at from about 117,000 in January 1966, not until 1923.) a Danish newspaper that published cartoons to 1.5 million from 961,000, as the article 21 April 2012 of the Prophet Muhammad misspelled the initially stated, or to 500,000 from 180,000, Thirty-seven percent of Americans polled in The Mexico City Journal article on April 10, reporter’s given name. She is Christina as the earlier correction said. (The 1.5 million a Wall Street Journal/NBC survey supported about a towering vertical garden, one of three Anderson, not Christine. represented Army troops everywhere during a statement on the need to restore economic eco-sculptures installed across the city to be those years and the 500,000 represented all freedom, a central plank of the Mitt Romney both art and oxygenator, misstated the role of The Secret Service is part of the Department troops in Vietnam at those times, not just presidential campaign. An Election 2012 carbon dioxide in urban pollution. Ground- of Homeland Security. An April 16 editorial, Army troops.) article on Friday incorrectly said that thirty level ozone forms from the interaction, in the referred to Secret Service agents who worked percent supported it. presence of sunlight, of nitrogen oxides and in Colombia as “Treasury men.” The DealBook column on Tuesday, about volatile organic compounds; it does not form executives from scandal-tainted companies An article on Friday about President Obama’s from carbon dioxide. A map with an April 15 Travel article about who serve on the boards of other companies, opposition to the Keystone pipeline referred Belfast’s commemoration of the 100th gave outdated information about such service incorrectly to a new route through Nebraska 18 April 2012 anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic by H. Lee Scott Jr, who was chief of Wal- that Trans Canada has proposed. Nebraska An article said a secret file compiled by incorrectly labeled Northern Ireland as part Mart Stores in the period when its Mexico environmental officials say no final decision British colonial officials in the 1950s included of Britain. Britain, also known as Great unit was involved in widespread bribery. Mr. has been made on the route and whether a list of Kenyans studying in the US, along Britain, consists of England, Scotland and Scott stepped down from the Goldman Sachs it will cross the environmentally sensitive with a note that the US state department Wales. Britain and Northern Ireland make up board last year; he is not currently a director Ogallala Aquifer. It is not the case that a new had expressed concern about such students the United Kingdom. there. route through the state will indeed avoid the “falling into the wrong hands”. The report aquifer. highlighted the fact that the name of Barack An article on Saturday about personal tax 24 April 2012 Obama, the father of the US president, topped disclosures by President Obama and his ‘David Cameron’s family fortune: the 20 April 2012 the list. To clarify: his name headed the list rival candidate, Mitt Romney, described Jersey, Panama and Geneva connection’ An article on Thursday about air standards only because it came first alphabetically. imprecisely the reason for Mr. Romney’s was amended because the original said the issued by the Environmental Protection relatively low effective tax rate. The bulk of family’s banking history went back to the Agency to address emissions from the An article on Tuesday about venture funds his earnings came from investment income 1860s, when Sir Ewen Cameron helped the natural gas drilling process known as that are seeking Palestinian investments that is taxed at preferential rates; it was not Rothschild banking dynasty sell war bonds hydraulic fracturing misstated the surname misstated the name of a start-up Web site from ordinary interest, which is usually taxed during the Russo-Japanese war. He joined of a lawyer for the Clean Air Task Force, offering regional travel and hotel deals. The at higher rates. the banking industry in the 1860s and helped an environmental group, who criticized the site is yamsafer.me, not yamsafer.com. sell war bonds after the Russo-Japanese war agency’s timetable for enforcement. She is 16 April 2012 began in 1904. Ann Brewster Weeks, not Ann Brewster. A map of the Persian Gulf that An article about the financial problems facing accompanied a front page article Saturday Cyprus erroneously attributed a distinction to An article on Saturday about a New York An article on Wednesday about investor about U.S. military contingency planning for the Cyprus Popular Bank. It is the country’s City program under which people live rent- concerns arising from the French presidential a war against Iran incorrectly labeled Qatar second largest bank – not the largest. (The free in historic homes in return for serving election described incorrectly an economic as Bahrain. Bahrain is located northwest of Bank of Cyprus is the largest.) as caretakers misidentified the location of the proposal by the Socialist candidate, Francois Qatar. The corrected map can be found with Edgar Allan Poe Cottage. It is in the West Hollande. While he has proposed hiring updated graphic headlined “Naval Matchup.” 15 April 2012 Bronx, not the South Bronx. 60,000 civil servants and teachers, he An article on the lack of progress in British would do so by filling slots left open by An April 15 A-section article about the oil exploration in the Falklands incorrectly An article on Wednesday about a poll retiring public employees; it would not be an arrest of an Iraqi elections official said referred to fields rather than prospects indicating that more Americans are inclined expansion of the work force. that a member of Iraq’s parliament, Hanan throughout. As clarified by a reader: “An to link recent weather extremes to global oil or gas prospect is a volume of rock in warming referred imprecisely to the name the subsurface that has been identified of a group that is trying to draw attention to by geoscientists as potentially containing that link. The name, 350.org, refers to what SOURCES hydrocarbons, and is what is targeted for the group considers a safe upper limit for drilling by an exploration well. Until proven carbon dioxide in the atmosphere (350 parts The Atlanta Journal-Constitution [Ga] National Public Radio [US] by drilling, any reserves attributed to a per million), not an ideal level. (The level in Austin American Statesman [Texas] The New York Times prospect are purely theoretical. If the well March was 394 parts per million.) The Baltimore Sun News Journal [Daytona Beach, Fla] makes a discovery and proves commercial Bangor Daily News [Maine] New Straits Times [Kuala Lumpur] amounts of oil and/or gas, then generally the A critic’s notebook article on Monday about Belfast Telegraph [Ireland] Newsday [Long Island, NY] prospect becomes a field, with financially the Church History Museum of the Church of The Business Times [Singapore] Oakland Tribune [California] reportable reserves” (Price tag grows in Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake The Charleston Gazette [WV] Orange County Register [California] search for Falklands oil, 3 April, page 23). City and the role of this religion in national Chicago Tribune Orlando Sentinel [Florida] politics misidentified, in some copies, the Christian Science Monitor [US] The Ottawa Citizen [Ontario] An article last Sunday about large companies position of a prominent lawmaker who is Daily Mail [London] Pittsburgh Post-Gazette [Pa] that opt out of Texas’ workers’ compensation a Mormon. The Democrat Harry Reid of Daily Press [Newport News, Va] The Providence Journal [RI] system and offer private injury benefits Nevada is, of course, the Senate majority The Daily Telegraph [London] The Post and Courier [Charleston, SC] referred incompletely to the $54,000 that leader – not the House speaker, the post held Denver Post [Colorado] Roanoke Times & World News [Va] Walmart’s policy provides for lost wages. by John Boehner, Republican of Ohio. El Paso Times [Texas] Savannah Morning News [Georgia] That is the maximum for employees who earn Evening News [Edinburgh] St. Louis Post-Dispatch [Missouri] $500 a week – not for all employees. (It is 23 April 2012 Financial Times [London] St. Petersburg Times [Florida] possible for employees who earn higher wages In the March 12 issue of Upfront, an article Florida Times Union [Jacksonville] The Santa Fe New Mexican [NM] to receive more money under the policy.) about plastic bag bans incorrectly stated The Globe and Mail [Toronto] The Scotsman [Edinburgh] that it takes 12 million barrels of oil to make Gannett News Service [McLean, Va] South China Morning Post [Hong Kong] 14 April 2012 the plastic bags Americans use annually. Guardian [UK] Star Tribune [Minneapolis, Minn] An article on Monday about Israel’s decision Industry experts say about 85 percent of Hartford Courant [Connecticut] Tampa Bay Times [Florida] to bar Gunter Grass, one of Germany’s best- plastic bags in the U.S. are made from natural The Herald-Times [Bloomington, Ind] Taranaki Daily News [New Plymouth, NZ] known writers, from entering the country gas and the remainder are made from crude The Hindu [India] The Times / Sunday Times [London] because of his recent poem that assailed oil, but they cannot put a numerical figure on Honolulu Star-Advertiser [Hawaii] The Times-Tribune [Scranton, Pa] Israel for its threats to attack Iran over its the exact quantity of natural gas and oil used Houston Chronicle [Texas] Toronto Star nuclear program, described imprecisely annually to make plastic bags. The Independent [London] USA Today Poland’s relationship to Nazism. While there International Herald Tribune Virginian-Pilot [Norfolk, Va] were Nazi sympathizers in Poland, especially Irish Times [Dublin] 22 April 2012 Wall Street Journal among ethnic Germans, the Polish people as An article last Sunday about uranium mining Journal [Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK] Wall Street Journal Asia [Hong Kong] a whole did not support Nazi ideology nor in Texas misstated the number of uranium Mail on Sunday [London] The Washington Post did Nazism “rise” there. It was imposed by a mining facilities in the United States. There The New York Post The Washington Times victorious German army. 12

An article on Friday about a cease-fire it did broadcast it 3 months later; it is not the does notify users that it collects personal researching several plans, estimated he would directed at halting the conflict in Syria case that “the interview was not broadcast.” information, including telephone numbers. have to spend at least $1,200 a month to misstated part of the name of a Syrian exile insure himself and his daughter, he could in opposition group in Britain, with contacts 10 April 2012 An article last Sunday about documentaries fact have bought coverage through the state’s inside Syria, that reported 11 died in A music review on Saturday about a on animals referred incorrectly to John insurance exchange for significantly less. scattered clashes on Thursday, the first day of performance by the German cabaret artist Berger’s 1977 essay “Why Look at the cease-fire. It is the Syrian Observatory for Ute Lemper, at Zankel Hall in Manhattan, Animals?” Mr. Berger wrote that the A picture caption on March 26 with the Human Rights, not the London Observatory misidentified one of languages in which emergence of zoos, pet keeping and animal continuation of an article about Iraq’s desire for Human Rights. she sang. The songs by the Israeli singer toys was part of early modernization; he did to use a summit meeting of Arab League and songwriter Chava Alberstein were in not say that the birth of cinema was a signal leaders in Baghdad as a rare chance to A picture on Friday with the City Room Yiddish, not in Hebrew. achievement of that period of modernization. reassert itself as a player in a transformed column, about the 100th anniversary of a gift Arab world reversed the identifications of the of cherry trees to New York City from Japan, A sentence in the Editorial, “Don’t miss this With a news feature about how Tunisia was two men shown. Hoshyar Zebari, the Iraqi was published in error. It showed crab apple opportunity” (April 4), said: “If Asif Ali faring several months after its revolution, foreign minister, was at the right and Nabil trees, not cherry blossoms in Riverside Park Zardari’s visit this Sunday — the first by a a side panel on tourism said that under the al-Arabi of the Arab League was at the left. north of 90th Street in Manhattan. (There are democratic leader of Pakistan since Zulfikar police state of Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali local cherry trees in that vicinity.) Ali Bhutto travelled to Simla in 1972...” In people not working in tourism were banned A story headlined ‘NHS watchdog criticises fact, Pakistan Prime Minister Yusuf Raza from talking to foreign visitors. This was blitz on abortion clinics’ (5 April) reported 13 April 2012 Gilani came to see a cricket match in Mohali incorrect (17 June 2011, page 26). the contents of a leaked Care Quality An April 1 Travel article about Bauhaus in March 2011. Commission letter. To clarify: the CQC letter architecture in Tel Aviv incorrectly described 07 April 2012 was also, and separately, obtained by the the latter as a “brand-new Israeli city” during An article Saturday about a dispute over An article on March 28 about voter BBC under a freedom of information request. the pre-World War II period when Jews were whether to restore or demolish the Modernist registration groups that have curbed their leaving Germany. In fact, Israel did not exist county government center in Goshen, NY, efforts in Florida because of a new law that ‘George Zimmerman 911 call: what the at that time. Tel Aviv was located in what was designed by Paul Rudolph, misspelled the imposes restrictions on them misstated the fallout is from botched editing’ – The then British-administered Palestine. name of an influential painter cited by a date that the new law took effect. It was May original version of this piece attributed a set preservationist who said people should be 2011, not July. of quotes about the Rodney King case to the An April 8 A-section article about Japan’s taught to appreciate some works of modern wrong professor. reliance on fossil fuels misstated the value art and architecture. He was Jackson Pollock, An article on Feb. 16 about the efforts by of the country’s fuel imports. In 2010, Japan not Pollack. advocates for same-sex marriage to win over 04 April 2012 imported 16.4 trillion yen in fossil fuels, blacks in Maryland misidentified the home An article on Tuesday about a lawsuit by or $203 billion in today’s dollars, not $16.4 The Disruptions column on Monday, about state of Michael Kenneth Williams, an actor same-sex married couples challenging trillion. In 2012, it is projected to import 21.1 many companies’ reluctance to discuss the from the Baltimore-based television series the Defense of Marriage Act – arguing trillion yen in fossil fuels, or $261 billion, not working conditions at the Chinese factories “The Wire.” He was born and raised in New that the law is harsh on couples with an $21.1 trillion. that produce their goods, misstated, in some York, not in Maryland. American citizen and a foreigner – described editions, the year that Apple first published a incorrectly the action gay advocates An article on Thursday about a naval standoff report on the issue. It was 2006, not 2007. An article last Saturday about the fight sought from the federal government before between the Philippines and China in the to change prison policies on solitary filing the suit. While advocates asked the South China Sea described incorrectly the A film review on Friday about “The Hunter,” confinement rendered incorrectly the name federal government to halt deportations location of the Philippine island of Luzon in which the prey is the animal known as of a correctional department whose gang of immigrants in those couples, they did and Scarborough Shoal, which is claimed by the Tasmanian tiger, referred imprecisely management program has been a model for not do so in connection with the lawsuit. both countries and is near where Philippine to its relationship to the wolf. While all life other states. It is the Connecticut Department The advocates asked officials to postpone surveillance aircraft spotted eight Chinese forms are related in the broadest sense, the of Correction, not the Connecticut consideration of applications for permanent fishing boats on Sunday, leading to the Tasmanian tiger, which is believed to be Department of Corrections. residency, also known as a green card, for standoff. The shoal is 124 nautical miles west extinct, was a marsupial and thus not “a immigrants married to American citizens of of Luzon, not east. relative of the wolf.” 06 April 2012 the same sex. An article on March 17 about appeals for 12 April 2012 An important part of a poem by a Department of Justice investigation into An article on Tuesday about a movement in The giant eland found at White Oak Günter Grass, What Must Be Said, was the shooting of Trayvon Martin by George the Netherlands to make voluntary euthanasia Plantation in Florida are Eastern giant eland, mistranslated. The original translation read: Zimmerman misstated the time period in widely available described incorrectly the a type of large African antelope that is a [Germany] “is said to be the departure point... which Mr. Zimmerman made 46 calls to 911. powerful muscle relaxant curare, which is subspecies of the giant eland, of which there / for yet another submarine equipped / to The calls were made over the course of about typically administered in euthanasia. Curare are 25,000 to 30,000 in the wild. An item transport nuclear warheads / to Israel, where eight years, not over 14 months. The error causes respiratory paralysis; it does not stop Saturday about the property incorrectly not a single atom bomb / has yet been proved was repeated in a front-page article on March the heart. implied that the giant eland at White Oak to exist, with fear alone / the only evidence, 21 about Florida’s self-defense law known as Plantation belong to the rare Western I’ll say what must be said.” The revised Stand Your Ground. Thirty years ago Argentina seized the subspecies, of which there are only 200 in the translation reads: [Germany] has delivered Falklands and declared them Argentine wild. yet another submarine to Israel... / whose The Books of The Times review on territory: Las Malvinas. An article in the speciality consists in its ability / to direct Wednesday, about Dreaming in French: The Review section Saturday incorrectly called China’s state-run media reported an nuclear warheads toward / an area in which Paris Years of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, them Les Malvinas. Also, Argentine forces investigation against former Communist not a single atom bomb / has yet been proved Susan Sontag, and Angela Davis, by Alice captured the British defenders, but didn’t kill Party official Bo Xilai at 11 p.m. Tuesday in to exist, its feared / existence proof enough, Kaplan, misstated the name of the newspaper any of them as the article incorrectly said. China. On Wednesday, the continuation of a I’ll say what must be said.” in which Ms. Davis sought information after front-page article on Mr. Bo incorrectly said the Birmingham church bombings in 1963. An article on Friday about an account of the news was reported at 10 p.m. Afghanistan has nearly 350,000 police and At that time, it was The Paris Herald Tribune Osama bin Laden’s nine years on the run, soldiers. An article Monday about a deal – not The International Herald Tribune, the given to Pakistani investigators by his The number of unemployed people available with the U.S. giving the Afghan government name it began operating under in May 1967. youngest wife, misstated the given name of for each job vacancy in the U.S. has been greater oversight over night raids incorrectly the Al Qaeda leader’s 20-year-old son, who on the decline for three years. Wednesday’s gave the number as more than 30,000. An article on Tuesday about the effects of was killed along with Bin Laden in an U.S. front-page Vital Signs chart incorrectly said clothing on cognitive processes misstated the commando raid on their house in Abbottabad the number of unemployed people applying An obituary on Monday about Kenneth name of the journal that published a recent last May. He was Khalid, not Khalil. for each new job vacancy in the U.S. has been Libo, a historian of Jewish immigration who study showing that wearing a doctor’s white on the decline. contributed to Irving Howe’s book “World coat led subjects to pay sharper attention. ‘We don’t know of any Kony video’: villagers of Our Fathers,” misspelled the name of one It is The Journal of Experimental Social tell of reality of violent attacks – was Apple Inc.’s retail stores brought in $1,100 of the Yiddish-language newspapers whose Psychology, not The Journal of Experimental corrected because it said that the villagers of in operating income per square foot last archives he consulted as part of the research Social Cognition. The article also described Dungu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, year, according to estimates by analyst Craig for that book. It was Freiheit, not Freheit. the findings of an earlier study incorrectly. had lived in fear of the Lord’s Resistance Johnson of Customer Growth Partners. In that experiment, people who held a hot Army (LRA) for 50 years, when that should Wednesday’s Marketplace article on Best 9 April 2012 drink in their hands rated others personally have been half a decade. Buy Co. incorrectly used the figure $4,700, An obituary on Tuesday about the British warmer; it is not the case that people were rated which is Apple’s sales per square foot. playwright John Arden misspelled the name personally warmer if they held a hot drink. The Pinyin spelling of a Mandarin word of the country where English soldiers killed used to describe an unmarried woman near An article on March 31 about the drugging five innocent people in 1958, an incident Highly enriched uranium isn’t used as a the age of 30 is shengnü. A March 17 in the and killing of nine Afghan militia members, that inspired Mr. Arden’s play “Serjeant fuel in nuclear power plants, but can be Review section noted the use of the word in a purportedly by a colleague, misidentified Musgrave’s Dance.” It is Cyprus, not transformed into low enriched uranium for Salon.com essay, which also was quoted in an the manufacturer of the Ranger pickup truck Cypress. such purposes. An article on March 28 about opinion article. In all instances, the word was used by the fleeing suspect. It is Ford, not the Nuclear Security Summit incorrectly said misspelled as shengnu. Toyota. An article on Thursday about five former nuclear plants used highly enriched uranium. police officers sentenced to prison in the 03 April 2012 11 April 2012 shooting of six unarmed civilians in the The U.S. Treasury Department placed An article on Friday about lavish family An obituary on Tuesday about Frank H. days after Hurricane Katrina, and the sanctions in October on the Iranian general, villas built during the dynastic era by Strickler, a lawyer who represented two cover-up afterward, misstated the reason for Qasem Soleimani, for his alleged role in merchants in the Huizhou region that are of President Richard M. Nixon’s top aides, the sentence of at least 35 years for those a plot to assassinate the Saudi Arabian drawing the attention of scholars, tourists misidentified the position once held by E. convicted of taking part in the shooting. ambassador to Washington. An article on and filmmakers, transposed the name of the Howard Hunt, who was convicted of helping It was based on mandatory minimum Wednesday incorrectly stated that Gen. museum in Salem, Mass., that reached an to organize the 1972 Watergate break-in. He sentencing statutes, not on sentencing Soleimani was indicted by a federal court agreement in 1997 to transport one of the was a C.I.A. officer, not a C.I.A. agent. (An guidelines. in New York for his alleged involvement. traditional villas to its grounds. The museum agent is someone who has been recruited to The article also incorrectly stated that Iraqi is the Peabody Essex. work on behalf of an intelligence service.) Local authorities in China will often tolerate politician Ahmad Chalabi visited Tehran up to 100 hours of overtime work per month. ahead of the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iran. The A March 30 article about the role of some An Associated Press report in the World A Business & Finance article April 2 about trip occurred ahead of the invasion of Iraq. pesticides in the decline of bees incorrectly Briefing column on Saturday about the first an audit of the labor practices in China said that the Center for Food Safety has sued official Good Friday holiday in Cuba in a of Apple Inc. supplier Hon Hai Precision A photo with an article Thursday about the Environmental Protection Agency over half-century misidentified a Roman Catholic Industry Co. incorrectly said they tolerate up Russia’s potential entry to the World Trade its handling of clothianidin. The group has observation on that day. It is the Passion of to 100 hours of overtime work per week. Organization showed pipeline construction filed a petition with the EPA asking that the the Lord, not a Mass. (No Mass is said on in the Leningrad Region of Russia. The pesticide be banned but has not filed suit. Good Friday.) 08 April 2012 caption incorrectly described the location In an article about the transmission of as near Leningrad, the former name of St. 02 April 2012 An obituary on Monday about the television personal data as a result of using mobile Petersburg. An article on Thursday, March 29, about journalist Mike Wallace referred incorrectly phone applications (March 4), we stated how Skittles, the candy Trayvon Martin was to an interview he conducted for the CBS that LeadBolt, a Los Angeles-based internet 05 April 2012 carrying when he was killed, has become a News program 60 Minutes with the chemist advertiser, received the telephone numbers An article on March 28 about the requirement symbol of protest rendered incorrectly the Jeffrey Wigand, who said tobacco executives of handsets that used its services, despite its that most Massachusetts residents have health name of a powdered drink that also became had lied when they testified before Congress own privacy policy stating that it would not insurance gave an incomplete account of the a symbol of protest after the cult leader Jim that they believed nicotine was not addictive. collect personal information of this type. options that Wayde Lodor, an independent Jones laced it with cyanide to kill more than While CBS did not broadcast the interview LeadBolt has contacted us to make clear that consultant from Leominster, had for buying 900 people in Guyana in 1978. It is Flavor in November 1995 as originally scheduled, it has two privacy policies; its mobile policy health coverage. While Mr. Lodor, after Aid, not Flavor-Aid.