April 20, 2015 Monday the summit in the 1920s went in through An article in the travel pages in the edition of the Washington Ballet says that its casting An article on Friday about Sony Pictures Tibet, as Nepal was closed to westerners at March 28th said that Bethlehem is in Israel. for a full-length “Swan Lake” is a first for Entertainment’s displeasure at the posting the time. It is in Palestine. American ballet, this was not the first time of its internal documents on WikiLeaks mis- two African-Americans were in the lead roles stated, in some copies, when Sony Pictures A Comment article, “It’s not just these new An editorial (17 April, page 36) encouraging in an American production. issued its statement. It was Thursday, not pylons that blight our land” (last week, page readers to register to vote in the general elec- Wednesday. 37), said the pylons are white, the com- tion, before Monday’s deadline, said “With A picture on Monday with the What’s on petition to design them low key and that your national insurance number and access TV highlights in some editions, using infor- A report about art-led regeneration (Digging National Grid chairman, Peter Gershon, to the internet, you can register online at mation from Reuters, was published in error. never stops as town’s gold rush slowly sinks advises the Tory party. National Grid has www.gov.uk/register-to-vote “. To clarify: The picture, with an entry about “Lincoln’s into the sands, 17 April, page 18) quoted JJ asked us to make clear that the pylons are while that page on the UK government Last Day” on the Smithsonian Channel, Charlesworth, associate editor of ArtReview grey, the competition was promoted inter- website says “You’ll need your National shows a fictitious newspaper account of magazine, as saying the Folkestone Triennial nationally by the Royal Institute of British Insurance number (if you have one)”, it is the shooting of Abraham Lincoln that would “possibly … raise shop rents”. He did Architects, the Department for Energy and possible to register without an NI number. was created for the book “Lincoln Shot: not say that, and in the online version of the Climate Change and National Grid, with A President’s Life Remembered” by Barry article further revisions have been made to judges eminent in their fields. And Peter An article on Wednesday about the Denenberg. It is not an image of an actual quotes from him in order to better reflect Gershon has not advised the Conservative annual production of the play “To Kill a newspaper. his views, in particular his qualified support party since 2010. Mockingbird” in Monroeville, Ala., the for the Creative Foundation, which runs the hometown of Harper Lee, the author of the April 15, 2015 Wednesday Triennial. In “Harry’s search for spare-part role” novel on which the play is based, referred An online article (How much of the (News, last week), we wrongly said Princess incorrectly to a lawsuit filed by Ms. Lee in Conservatives’ 2010 election manifesto An article about Mike Leigh’s plans to Anne had decided to “do away” with HRH 2013 against the Monroe County Heritage was implemented?, 14 April) was wrong to make a film about the Peterloo massacre titles for her children. Children of sovereigns Museum, which produces the show. The say when discussing a Conservative pledge said that it occurred when “government and of the sons of sovereigns are styled Royal suit, over items the museum was selling, to recreate technical schools that, although troops, including local yeomanry, charged a Highness. Princess Anne ruled out alterna- focused on trademark issues, not on copy- 17 had opened, the rollout had been sus- crowd of around 60,000 people in St Peter’s tive honorary titles for her children. right issues. pended amid concerns they were not prov- Field, Manchester to demand the reform ing popular or effective. Thirty university of parliamentary representation”. To clar- April 18, 2015 Saturday In the April 8 Section A, an article about a technical colleges are now open and the ify: the crowd was demanding reform, not In the April 17 Section A, an article about State Water Resources Control Board plan rollout has not been suspended. Another 11 the troops (After Mr Turner, Mike Leigh’s the withdrawal of Japanese American intern- to base conservation targets for cities and will open in September 2015 and more are thoughts turn to Peterloo, 18 April, page 6). ment camp artifacts from auction referred to towns on per-capita rates of water consump- in development. a Shinto shrine in Nancy Oda’s home as a tion listed East Los Angeles as among the Nick Clegg said his party would add “a heart butsudan. A butsudan is a Buddhist shrine. cities that have the lowest per-capita use. In the April 13 Section A, an article about to a Conservative government and a brain East L.A. is an unincorporated section of a Tulsa County reserve deputy who grabbed to a Labour one”, not “a heart to any Tory An article on Tuesday about the release of Los Angeles County. his gun instead of his Taser and fatally shot a government and a head to a Labour govern- five women’s rights activists who had been suspect said that the sheriff’s office had held ment” as we had it (Lib Dems refuse to rule detained in China for weeks after trying to April 16, 2015 Thursday a news conference Saturday, when it also out Europe referendum, 16 April, page 1). start a campaign against sexual harassment An article about a forthcoming referendum released a video of the shooting. The news on public transportation misattributed, in in Ireland on gay marriage said that “under conference was Friday, as was the video’s April 19, 2015 Sunday some editions, a comment posted on a web- the Irish constitution any major social release. An opinion essay last Sunday misstated the site, ChinaChange.org, that was part of an change altering the balance of church and title of Benjamin Disraeli when he remarked, interview with Wang Zheng, an associate state has to be put to a plebiscite”. That is The Memo From Panama article on shortly after Abraham Lincoln was killed in professor of history and women’s studies at not the case. However, any amendment to Monday, about a possible new chapter in 1865, that “assassination has never changed the University of Michigan. It was Yaxue the Irish constitution requires a referendum relations between the United States and the history of the world.” Disraeli was at the Cao, an editor at the website who conducted (Irish voters keep campaigners guessing as Latin America after President Obama met time a Conservative member of Parliament; the interview – not Professor Wang herself referendum on gay marriage draws near, 13 the Cuban president, Raúl Castro, at the he did not become Britain’s prime minister – who said, ‘’The Chinese feminists might April, page 16). Summit of the Americas, referred incor- until 1868. have felt that they enjoyed a special freedom, rectly to the United States government’s list but now they see the barbaric and brutal A story in Wednesday’s Spectator about a of nations that sponsor terrorism, which An article last Sunday about the risk Hillary reality where every Chinese citizen, man or Hamilton family that grew up under the includes Cuba. Although Cuba has been Rodham Clinton would be taking if she woman, is denied basic political rights.’’ shadow of the Armenian genocide was edited reluctant to agree to the reopening of embas- aligns her campaign for president too closely to remove instances of the word “genocide.” sies in Washington and Havana as long as it with President Obama’s policies misstated An article on April 10 about the 150th The Spectator regrets the omission. remains on the list, being on the list does not the number of years she was in the Senate. It anniversary of the end of the Civil War mis- prevent Cuba or any nation from reopening was eight, not six. spelled the surname of a retired Marine tuba An article on Wednesday about the 150th embassies. (The White House announced player and bandleader who portrayed Gen. anniversary of the death of Abraham Lincoln on Tuesday that President Obama intends to An article last Sunday about the benefits and Ulysses S. Grant during a re-enactment in referred incorrectly to the house from which remove Cuba from the terrorism list.) drawbacks of Britain’s 10-year-old Freedom Arlington, Va., commemorating the war. Theodore Roosevelt as a young boy was said of Information law omitted the given name He is Ken Serfass, not Surfass. And a cor- to have watched Lincoln’s funeral procession April 14, 2015 Tuesday and the position of an official who said local rection in this space last Saturday misstated pass. It was his grandparents’ house, not his In early editions a front-page article about governments were wary about ignoring friv- part of the name of the historic site where house. Labour’s manifesto launch said Ed Miliband olous requests for information. He is Gareth the re-enactment took place. It is Arlington would “say Labour is now the fiscally irre- Cosslett, a communications adviser at the National Cemetery (not Ceremony). An editorial on Tuesday about New York sponsible party”. That should have been “the Cumbria County Council. City’s pension funds incorrectly stated that fiscally responsible party” (Labour’s big pro- An editorial on Wednesday about the Senate fees for asset managers over the last 10 years mise: no extra borrowing, 13 April). A report from the Summit of the Americas bill on congressional review of any final reduced the funds’ gains basically to zero. (News, page 5) referred to the Union of South nuclear deal with Iran misstated a provi- The funds showed positive returns, but their RT America, part of Russia’s state-run inter- American Nations (Usan) as a regional body sion in the bill. After review, Congress may performance fell well short of benchmarks national news network, was launched in representing every nation in the hemisphere choose to vote on the agreement, but it is after fees were accounted for. 2010, not last year as was implied in a fea- except the US and Canada. That should have not required to do so. ture ( The Kremlin’s hall of mirrors, 9 April, been the 33-member Community of Latin A dance review on Tuesday about a perfor- page 25). The article also suggested that the American and Caribbean States (Celac). April 17, 2015 Friday mance of “Swan Lake” by the Washington RT network includes a Serbian language Usan, or Unasur, is a union of 12 nations of A letter from Dr Scott Anthony about Ballet at the Kennedy Center in Washington, channel. It does not. the Southern Cone. the Greek elections was edited to account using information from the program, mis- for political developments since the letter stated the year the Washington Ballet was An article on Friday about an increase in “A step too far” (New Review, last week, page had been received, and this resulted in the founded. It was 1976 – not 1944, which black immigrants to the United States erro- 8) described the old Everest basecamp trail Independent Greeks being described as “a was the year the Washington School of neously included one country among the from Jiri in Nepal as the way that George rightwing party”. Dr Anthony asked us to Ballet was founded. The review also referred Central and South American countries that Mallory and Edmund Hillary walked in. make clear that, within the context of his let- imprecisely to the casting of two African- have emigrants in the United States. Mexico, It was certainly the route of Hillary and ter, he would have used the term “a populist Americans in the lead roles. Dance Theater which has 70,000 black emigrants in the Tenzing Norgay, but Mallory and the party” (Claims of a far-left victory are non- of Harlem used such casting in presenting United States, is part of North America, not mountaineering expeditions that attempted sense, 27 January, page 36). one act of the ballet in 1980. Thus, while Central or South America. 2 In the April 7 California section, an article said that an Ofcom report last year found An article in some editions on Thursday about new parking enforcement signs attrib- that “24% of Brits under 25 listen to tra- about Wall Street fees that have wiped out Corrections and uted the term “meter maids” to a city of Los ditional radio”. What Ofcom’s report actu- $2.5 billion in New York City pension fund Clarifications Angeles engineer. The term, referring to city ally said is that those aged 16-24 spend 24% gains misidentified the types of investments parking enforcement officers, was a para- of their “listening time” on live radio; they in the city’s pension funds for which man- Corrections and Clarifications is phrase, not a direct quote. spend 30% listening to streamed online agement fees are not traditionally reported. an ongoing publication, an edited music and 30% listening to their personal They are investments in publicly traded compilation of daily revisions, An article on April 2 about a decision in digital music or audio collection (eg on an assets, like stocks and bonds – not privately retractions, re-wordings, distinctions California to impose mandatory water iPod, smartphone, computer etc). traded assets, like real estate. and apologies to print news from restrictions for the first time misstated the amount of ornamental turf expected to be An article on Friday about the 150th anni- April 9, 2015 Thursday September 2001 to the present. A replaced with plantings that consume less versary of the end of the Civil War misstated In an article published on Tuesday, March reverse-chronological catalog of water. It is 50 million square feet, not acres. the name of a song played by a brass band 31st, titled “Warning on distress over change lapses in naming and classification, of during a program at Arlington National to lone-parent payment”, a number of fac- tangled catchphrases, patterns of mis- An article about the ebbing fortunes of non- Ceremony marking the date. It is “Yankee tual errors were included. Recipients of the speech and inflection, connotation and bank financial institutions misidentified the Doodle” – not “Yankee Doodle Dandy,” the one-parent family payment will, on July enumeration. government entity that has the authority to name of a 1942 musical film about the com- 2nd, be moved to a transitional jobseeker’s designate a large nonbank financial company poser George M. Cohan. allowance when their youngest child rea- The relentlessly populist shapeshifting “systemically important” to the financial sys- ches seven years, and to jobseeker’s allo- enterpreneurial mobilization incited, tem. That power is held by the Financial A picture caption on Page 36 this weekend wance when their youngest child reaches inciting once again, in continuous run Stability Oversight Council, which includes with a report in the “This and That” feature 14. Recipients of these jobseeker’s payments through the interminable U.S. (for one the Federal Reserve and other agencies; it is about a limited-edition bag designed by Max can earn up to EUR 60 a week without their example) election cycle marks a stream not held by the Fed alone. Mara and the architect Renzo Piano to mark payment being affected. A quote, stating of linguistic battery, backtracking, the reopening of the Whitney Museum of some lone parents working part-time could backfiring, and side-talking – at once An April 13 Page One article about efforts by American Art in Manhattan refers incor- lose up to EUR 100 per week when they dumbing down, puffing up, and slipping gay rights groups and the Mormon Church rectly to a sketch of the bag. The sketch was move from the one-parent family payment, away from anything implying or limiting to reach a compromise on gay and religious made by Max Mara’s design team – not by was incorrectly attributed to Karen Kiernan, recklessness, usury, catastrophic rights in Utah misstated the location of the Mr. Piano, who designed the museum. chief executive of One Family. speculation. The opposite of which city of St. George’s. It is in southwestern, not has been generalized to class warfare southeastern, Utah. An editorial on Friday about the National An article on Tuesday about the discovery Rifle Association’s convention incorrectly of the remains of a top commander in the and drumbeat alongside the vitriol of April 13, 2015 Monday described the rules for carrying concealed Lord’s Resistance Army, a guerrilla group race fear, once again, to resounding An article last Monday about an exhibi- firearms at the event. Carrying is prohibited that once terrorized central Africa, referred effect. Stark cynicism parading as stark tion in Paris celebrating the film pioneers at one of the main convention venues, not incorrectly to the removal of the body of optimism. The rapturous language Louis and Auguste Lumière referred incor- all of them. the commander, Okot Odhiambo, from a of private advantage extracted as rectly to the attempt of another early film- grave site in the Central African Republic. popular consensus from what was once maker, George Méliès, to buy one of the An article on Thursday about President The remains were exhumed last month, not called public good, or infrastructure, Lumière brothers’ cinematograph machines. Obama’s call for an end to therapies aimed three months ago. ingloriously recast in the image of our The Lumières in fact refused his offer and at “repairing” gay, lesbian and transgender indefatigably pioneering, DIY-ing spirit. he eventually purchased filmmaking equip- youth referred incompletely to the evolution An article on Wednesday about American ment elsewhere; he did not buy one of their of Mr. Obama’s position on same-sex mar- museums that have begun returning objects Into the noisy, barren landscape of such first cinematographs. The article also refer- riage. While Mr. Obama began his national to India in response to an investigation of speech and informationalism, this is a red incorrectly to films that Louis Lumière political career publicly opposed to same-sex the dealer Subhash Kapoor, who is awaiting newspaper without headlines, allowing captured on 35-millimeter strips to later marriage, he did not begin his overall politi- trial in India on charges of trafficking in sto- such doubletalk to talk to itself. Perhaps project with a cinematograph. They were cal career opposed to it. (In 1996 he filled len artifacts, misstated, in some editions, what is conveyed unintentionally, and by 17-meter films, lasting about 50 seconds, out a questionnaire during his first cam- the number of objects obtained from Mr. repetitious mistakes, is more revealing, not 17-minute films. paign for public office, an Illinois state sen- Kapoor by the Asian Art Museum in San more historically identifiable, and ate race, saying he supported same-sex mar- Francisco, which is among those that say substantially less conciliatory than it is A Shortcuts item about a US stamp issued riage. By 2004, when he was a candidate for they do not believe their items were stolen. meant to be. This is both fortunate and in honour of the American author Maya the United States Senate, Mr. Obama said It is four, not five. Angelou said it was “part of a series called he did not support same-sex marriage.) The inevitable. ‘Forever’, memorialising great people article also described incorrectly an execu- An article on Thursday about the ‘Legoland’ and events” (9 April, page 3). To clarify: tive order to ban discrimination by federal makeover of sheltered accommoda- * * * “Forever” stamps are, in the words of the US contractors. The action would cover sexual tion buildings in Penarth said the Welsh Postal Service, “non-denominational first- orientation and gender identity, not gender. Government had contributed £500,000 to With purely editorial credit to those class postage, which means that they can the work. We have been asked to clarify that who have provided the material for this be used to mail first-class letters no matter April 10, 2015 Friday their funding was in fact for support services publication by having seen fit to correct what the postal rate”; when the cost of first- We said that the president of Estonia had for the residents. themselves, or having seen themselves class postage increases, such stamps bought “railed against President Putin’s ‘useful idi- fit to correct others; who have sought before the price rise remain valid. The article ots’ within the European Union, such as In an item in Martin Geissler’s column in some public way to offer apologies also said that some online sources attribute Greece, Italy, Hungary and Cyprus, who ‘Middle East war will affect us all’ (30 Mar) or clarifications – to redeem, reveal, the quote “Never apologise, never explain” are pressing for easing of sanctions” (“Nato he stated that Saudi is a Shia country and revise, retract, or shift, to simultaneously to the 1949 John Wayne film She Wore a ‘must respond to Russian cyber assault’ “, Iran is Sunni. In fact it is the other way claim, deny, and reattribute blame and Yellow Ribbon. That is the case, but what Apr 3). We have been asked to make clear round. responsibility. Credit is due for these Wayne’s character in that film actually says that, while the president expressed concern well-documented efforts to apologize is: “Never apologise, mister – it’s a sign of over extremist political forces in the EU April 8, 2015 Wednesday for what is being done and for what weakness.” which prioritise personal financial and eco- In the April 7 Calendar section, an article has already been done, for continuing nomic interests over common EU values, he about actor and activist George Takei said attempts to un-say what is said, un- The painting we showed by Cornelius did not name any countries in particular. that he has 3.5 million Facebook fans and mean what is meant. Johnson (“Forgotten painter finds favour that his musical “Allegiance” premiered in again”, Apr 10) was of the Capel family, not We incorrectly stated (Business, Apr 9) that 2013. In fact, he has 8.4 million Facebook the family of Charles I, as captioned. Ben van Beurden, the chief executive of likes, and the musical premiered in 2012. Credit at a variety of levels to those Royal Dutch Shell, received (EURO)24 bil- Also, a reference to World War II-era seekers, processors, middle managers, A March 31 A-section article about the lion in pay last year. The correct figure was Japanese internment camps should have said and ultimate regulators of public $478 billion transportation bill the Obama (EURO)24 million. Japanese American internment camps. information who take it upon themselves administration sent to Congress misstated (or impose it upon others) to re-name, the amount of money that U.S. corporations In the April 9 Section A, an article about A news analysis article on Tuesday about re-classify, disguise, de-fuse or be are estimated to hold offshore, which the the Border Patrol’s decreased use of firearms research into the characteristics of mass kill- de-briefed; who find clever metaphors measure would tax to bolster the Highway and other weapons on the southwest border ers who also take their own lives misstated to obfuscate, euphemize and mystify; Trust Fund. The amount is $3 trillion, not referred to Vicki Gaubeca, director of the the source of a statement about the men- who disseminate information according $2 billion. American Civil Liberties Union’s Regional tal health of Andreas Lubitz, the pilot of a to political structures coincident with Center for Border Rights, based in Las Germanwings jet who killed himself and particular economic interests, who A review in the April 10 Calendar section of Cruces, N.M., as a lawyer. She is an activist, 149 others in the French Alps last month. consent to use language to dismiss, the sci-fi movie “Ex Machina” included a ref- not an attorney. Prosecutors – not Lufthansa, Germanwings’s excuse, cushion, cover and obscure erence to a “Touring test.” The correct spell- parent airline – said he had talked to a coun- the consequences of actions and the ing is Turing, after Alan Turing, the British An article on Thursday about the effect citi- selor about suicide. submerged structures behind events. mathematician who conceived the test. zens’ videos have had in raising questions And ultimately who, regardless of about police officers’ explanations over their A report in the World Briefing column on stated intentions, occasionally reveal April 12, 2015 Sunday use of deadly force misstated, in some edi- Saturday about Bulgaria’s plans to form a something, piece by piece, through slips An article last Sunday about a town in tions, the surname of a college student at special unit to investigate high-level corrup- Norway from which eight men have trav- a demonstration over police tactics. He is tion referred incorrectly to the Bulgarian in language and naming systems. eled to Syria to fight alongside the Islamic Matthew R. Rabon, not Rabo. deputy prime minister. The deputy prime State and other militant groups misspelled minister, Meglena Kuneva, is a woman. With further acknowledgement to the name of the town. It is Fredrikstad, not An article on Wednesday about a new law readers who regard these revisions, Frederikstad. The error was repeated in the in Kansas that makes the state the first to The date of the permanent closing of the regrets, and retractions with the same dateline, in a picture caption and on a map. sharply restrict the most common technique Crystal River nuclear plant was February scepticism they have the originals. The article also misidentified the capital of used for second-trimester abortions mis- 2013. An incorrect date appeared in a story Turkey. It is Ankara, not Istanbul. spelled the surname of a lawyer with the Tuesday. Anita Di Bianco www.anitadi.net Center for Reproductive Rights, who dis- Printing: Sharman & Co, London April 11, 2015 Saturday cussed the legality of the law. She is Janet We have been asked to clarify that it was the Edition: 1000, April 2015 An article in The Guide (4 April, page 27) Crepps, not Creps. Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews 3 that recently voted to admit women as mem- some editions to the number of Syrians dis- remove a pig. In fact, the animal was seized In a report yesterday (“Drug firm ‘tried to bers. The courses at St Andrews, including placed by the war. Twelve million are inside legally. Its owner pleaded guilty to causing scupper’ trial of cost-saving eye medicine”) the venue where the Open is played, are not the country and four million have sought unnecessary suffering to the pig, which had we said the General Medical Council had members’ clubs (News, Apr 7). refuge in neighboring countries; the exiles cancer rather than a “simple mouth ulcer” issued guidance telling doctors it is unlawful are not included among the 12 million. as our report suggested. The article also to prescribe unlicensed medicines. In fact, April 7, 2015 Tuesday wrongly reported that the RSPCA eutha- the GMC’s guidance is that it is unlawful to A picture caption on Thursday with an arti- A front-page article (Warning: ‘Pay-NHS is nises 50,000 pets a year; the most recent do so on grounds of cost. cle about the Islamic State’s seizure of new coming’, 4 April) said that prescriptions cost figures, from 2013, show that it euthanised territory in Syria in recent days referred £8.20 “apart from in Scotland, where they 24,853. We apologise for these errors. April 2, 2015 Thursday imprecisely to the militants who seized the are free”. Prescription charges apply only in Due to a reporting error, a story in the March northern city of Idlib. As the article cor- England in the UK; Wales and Northern April 4, 2015 Saturday 26 Montreal Gazette incorrectly referred to rectly noted, Idlib was taken by a coalition Ireland, as well as Scotland, have scrapped In a report in Thursday’s edition ‘Police Anne-Marie Messier as a director of a coll- of insurgent groups that included the Nusra them. Another article on the same day mis- Scotland to probe NI shooting’ it was sta- ective of women’s groups. In fact, she is the Front, a rival of the Islamic State, not by the quoted Emma Richardson, who works for ted that teenager Martin Tighe was murde- director of the Centre de santé des femmes, Nusra Front alone. a community organisation in Scotland, as red when the RUC opened fire on a hayshed a non-profit gynecological clinic, which was saying that people often felt embarrassed to in Co Armagh in 1982. The word murdered among a collective of women’s groups that In the April 4 California section, a graphic fill out “the free prescription form”. She was should not have been used. We are happy to criticized Bill 20. showing the amount of water required to referring to a form for free dental treatment make this clear and apologise for the error. produce the ingredients in a typical steak (The rise of DIY dentistry: how Britain’s Due to a reporting error, a story in Saturday’s dinner, along with the amount needed for poor are filling their own teeth to avoid David Brooks’s column on Friday misidenti- Montreal Gazette stated that Canada’s fede- other common foods, contained incorrect charges, page 11). fied the sea that God parted in the Book of ral long-gun registry cost taxpayers $1 bil- figures resulting from an arithmetic con- Exodus. It is the Red Sea, not the Dead Sea. lion. In fact, it was the national firearms pro- version error. The pictured dinner would On the back page of Sunday’s newspaper, gram in its entirety – a program that inclu- require 969 gallons of water to produce, not the quote attributed to Singaporean Prime An article on March 27 about questions sur- ded the registry as a central element – that 116. Minister Lee Hsien Loong, talking about his rounding the motives of Andreas Lubitz, was estimated to have cost that amount by late father Lee Kuan Yew, was mistyped. The the co-pilot who is said to have deliberately 2005. A tidal lagoon power project planned for correct quote should have been: “Because he crashed a Germanwings Airbus A320 into Swansea Bay is not expected to provide 8% never wavered, we didn’t falter. Because he the French Alps, misidentified the river that A letter published in last Wednesday’s of the UK’s energy, as a report said (Flood fought, we took courage and fought with is associated with Düsseldorf, where Mr. paper (25 March, page 32) said that Henry defences get £2.3bn in new spending com- him, and prevailed.” We apologise for the Lubitz lived. It is the Rhine, not the Ruhr. Kissinger had once described Lee Kuan Yew, mitments, 2 December, page 4). What the error. the former prime minister of Singapore who energy secretary, Ed Davey, has said is that a An article on Thursday about a boom in died last week, as a “nasty little man”. In fact number of tidal lagoon projects “could pro- April 6, 2015 Monday business for tanker ships because of a glut of those are words that Kissinger is said to have vide up to 8% of our power needs”. An article on Wednesday about a law in crude oil misstated the equivalent length in used to describe Deng Xiaoping, the former Arizona that requires doctors who perform miles of a typical Very Large Crude Carrier, leader of China. An article looking at the issue of legal costs drug-induced abortions to tell women that the a supertanker made for shipping oil. The in the Plebgate libel case lost by the MP procedure may be reversible misspelled the ships are about 1,100 feet long, or more An online feature listing details of busi- Andrew Mitchell last week (Loser facing bill given name of the public policy director of than a fifth of a mile, not “almost one-fifth ness leaders who had signed an open letter of up to £1.5m, say experts, 28 November, Planned Parenthood Arizona, who criticized of a mile.” supporting the Conservative party descri- page 11) said legal aid “has almost never the measure. She is Jodi Liggett, not Jody. bed one of the signatories, Sir Dick Olver, been available for libel claims, although An article on Friday about Europe’s inten- as chairman of the defence contractor BAE it was eventually awarded in the McLibel An article on Thursday about the new home sifying scrutiny of big technology companies Systems. In fact he stood down from that Two case, where the two campaigners were of the Whitney Museum of American Art, misstated the date of the first hearing in a post in February 2014. He was replaced by sued by the McDonald’s food chain”. In which is to open May 1 at the southern end class action against Facebook in Austria. It Sir Roger Carr, who was not a signatory of fact the McLibel Two, David Morris and of the High Line, from which the museum will be April 9; the case was not heard “less the letter [The Tory 100: captains of indu- Helen Steel, did not win legal aid, but the expects to attract visitors, included an out- than a week ago.” stry, party donors (and a few tax avoiders), European court of human rights ruled that dated number of visitors to the park. The 1 April]. the denial of legal aid to them constituted High Line drew about six million visitors An article on Tuesday about how the destruc- a breach of their rights to a fair trial and to last year; it is no longer the case that is has tion of antiquities by Islamic militants has The Disruptions column on March 18, free expression. “nearly five million” a year. prompted a debate about the return of such about health concerns stemming from objects to countries where they originated wearable technology, referred incorrectly to An article on Sunday about Kenyans who The headlines to a diary item on March but may be endangered misstated the mid- research conducted by Dr. Lennart Hardell, waited outside a funeral home and morgue 24 and a recent feature summed up Mary dle initial of an archaeologist from Boston a professor of oncology and cancer epide- in Nairobi to identify relatives killed in a Portas’s comments on motherhood as being University who commented on the issue. He miology at Orebro University Hospital in massacre at Garissa University College mis- ‘better without men’. We are happy to clar- is Ricardo J. Elia, not L. Sweden, that concluded that talking on a spelled part of the name of the funeral home ify that her actual comment was that ‘shar- mobile or cordless phone for extended peri- in some editions. It is the Chiromo Funeral ing motherhood with a female is doubly April 3, 2015 Friday ods could triple the risk of a certain kind of Parlor, not the Chiroma Funeral Parlor. wonderful.’ An opinion piece published before brain cancer. The study was an analysis of Thursday’s ITV leaders’ debate referred to two earlier studies that asked people with An article on Monday about efforts to get On March 23 (“Labour donor’s £10m stake possible clashes between Ed Miliband and and without brain tumors to answer questi- a statue of Sally Ride, the astronaut, physi- in private health,” News) we reported incor- Alex Salmond. It is Nicola Sturgeon, not ons about cellphone and cordless phone use; cist and educator, enshrined in the nation’s rectly that Martin Taylor is a major stake- Salmond, who was due to (and did) take part it was not a longitudinal study in which pati- Capitol misstated the number of women holder in a private healthcare company that in that debate. The writer wrongly supposed ents were followed over time. already honored in the National Statuary seeks to make money out of the NHS. He is that Salmond would represent the SNP Hall Collection. It is nine, not eight. (The an investment adviser to and minority share- because he is a candidate for a Westminster The Disruptions column last Thursday, 10th will be a likeness of Amelia Earhart holder in Nevsky Fund plc, a 0.1 per cent seat while Sturgeon is not. about payment technologies and tipping, when it arrives.) shareholder in UnitedHealth, a US com- misspelled the given name of a New York pany. UnitedHealth’s UK business, which A news analysis article on Sunday about Times reporter who previously had reported The subheading on an Opinion piece about has contracts with the NHS, represents 0.1 divisions among Western nations over how on electronic tipping platforms. She is last week’s agreement on curbing Iran’s per cent of its global turnover. We apologise to respond to Russia’s aggression in Ukraine Hilary Stout, not Hillary. nuclear programme was wrong to say that for the mistake. referred incorrectly to large Russian loan the foreign secretary should immediately payments due by year’s end, which some An article on Friday about the deadly explo- endorse the deal. As the article made clear, April 5, 2015 Sunday analysts say could make Russia more wil- sion and building collapse in the East Village Philip Hammond has already done so. A cover article last Sunday about passive- ling to cooperate to get European sanctions misstated, in some editions, the day officials The writer’s argument was that Hammond house construction misstated the percentage lifted. The payments amount to a third of said a neighboring building, 119 Second should follow that up by restoring full diplo- of carbon emissions in New York City for Russia’s foreign-currency reserves; they do Avenue, was in danger of collapse. They said matic relations with Iran (Act now to bring which buildings are responsible. It is 71 per- not exceed the reserves. it on Thursday, not Tuesday. Iran in from the cold, 4 April, page 37). cent, not 58 percent. A theater review on March 25 about “The An article in some editions on Sunday An article about a report produced by the A picture caption on Friday with an article Tallest Tree in the Forest,” at the Brooklyn about a recommendation from the Liberian government’s chief scientist, Mark Walport, about gold watches misidentified the band Academy of Music, misidentified at one government that survivors of Ebola practice said that it compared the risks of fracking on the Apple watch that was shown. It is point the congressional hearings at which safe sex indefinitely misstated the diame- to thalidomide and asbestos. The reference the black sport band, not the black classic Paul Robeson, the singer and actor who ter of bacteriophages, a type of virus whose was to a chapter written by Prof Andrew buckle. was the subject of the show, testified. As the transmission is blocked by condoms, and the Stirling for the evidence and case studies that review correctly noted elsewhere, Robeson diameter of the Ebola virus. Bacteriophages accompanied the report. It did not directly An article on March 1 about the first slavery was called before the House Un-American are 27 nanometers, not 27 nanomillimeters, compare the risks, but said history presented museum in America misstated the title of Activities Committee, not the McCarthy and the Ebola virus is 80 nanometers, not 80 examples of innovation trajectories that later Jonathan Holloway, who visited the museum hearings in the Senate. nanomillimeters. proved to be problematic – including tha- in January. He is dean of Yale College, not a lidomide and asbestos – and that innovations dean at the college. A story this week on Tuesday incorrectly An article on Sunday about security enhance- including hydraulic fracking arguably offered a stated how often private pilots must receive ments to the fence around the White House contemporary prospective example. The article The Frugal Traveler column last Sunday, medical exams. Private pilots with third- referred incorrectly to the barriers that are and headline have been amended. (Fracking about the Kakheti region of Georgia, class airman certificates must undergo medi- used to help keep people away from the could carry unforeseen risks as thalidomide described incorrectly the nationality of cal exams every five years if they are younger fence. They are movable crowd-control bar- and asbestos did, says report produced by the imam who kidnapped the Georgian than forty and every two years if they are ricades usually referred to as bike rack bar- Walport, 28 November). prince Aleksandre Chavchavadze. He was forty or older. ricades by the Secret Service; they are not Dagestani, not Tajik. actual bicycle racks. An article on Wednesday about an appeal A March 29 Page One article about for emergency humanitarian assistance at an An article of 15 March (“Mr Pig’s death and Republican presidential hopefuls’ stances on An article on Tuesday about the shooting international fund-raising conference for vic- the truth about the RSPCA”) stated that guns misspelled the name of gun manufac- of two men by National Security Agency tims of the Syrian war referred incorrectly in the RSPCA had intruded on private land to turer Heckler & Koch. police officers misidentified the section 4 of the Baltimore-Washington Parkway preferred terms for foreign-backed insurrec- March 30, 2015 Monday tion showed scoliosis but only slight defor- adjoining the N.S.A.’s Maryland campus. It tion – not “fomenting counterrevolution.” In an article, ‘Cage Rage’ (Feb 28), we listed mity. Also, the skeleton’s feet were not found. is Maryland Route 295, not Interstate 295. 17 charities that we believed were being (Interstate 295 is the name of an eight-mile An article on Tuesday about the Gustav investigated by the Charity Commission March 28, 2015 Saturday section of the same highway that is farther Klimt painting “Adele Bloch-Bauer I,” in connection with their links to jihadist In the March 27 Section A, a graphic accom- south and mostly within the borders of the which was looted by the Nazis and is a sub- extremists. The commission would like us to panying an article about cockpit security District of Columbia.) ject of the new film “Woman in Gold,” clarify that they did not provide this infor- procedures indicated that the Germanwings about the efforts of Ms. Bloch-Bauer’s niece mation. Some of the charities were in fact Airbus A320 had four engines. An A320 has An article on Tuesday about a study that Maria Altmann to regain it, referred incor- under investigation because of their failure two engines. linked negative health effects to living in rectly to its sale in 2006. While Christie’s to file accounts: Muslim Cultural Society communities with greater income inequa- helped negotiate the sale, the painting was of Birmingham; Crawley Islamic Centre The Memo From Jerusalem article on lity misstated how the researchers measu- not auctioned. and Mosque; Markazul-Uloom; Jamiat-ul- Wednesday, about Israeli analysts’ suggesti- red inequality. They compared the incomes Muslemeen Quwat ul-Islam Masjed. ons that President Obama’s unrelenting criti- of people at the 80th and 20th percentiles A Diary item on March 25 stated that Prince In addition, the commission makes clear cism of the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin of income in a given location; they did not Harry would receive a resettlement package that Muslim Aid is under investigation in Netanyahu, could backfire, misstated the compare the number of people with inco- of about £15,000 when he leaves the Army connection with financial irregularities rela- timing of the Washington tenure of Itamar mes above the 80th percentile and below the this year. In fact, under his services’ pension ting to areas of the charity’s overseas activi- Rabinovich, a former ambassador from 20th percentile. scheme he is not eligible for such a payment. ties, including potential misuse of charity Israel who said relations between Israel and funds. the United States had never been so low. Mr. In a story Wednesday on Page A2 about laws There is a rule of thumb for planting deci- Rabinovich held the position from 1993 to known as Religious Freedom Restoration sions: If soybean prices are 2.5 times higher March 29, 2015 Sunday 1996, after the Bush administration briefly Acts, The Associated Press reported that than corn, you plant soybeans. The words A report published in Dawns Saturday issue withheld loan guarantees to Israel; he was Douglas Laycock, a constitutional scholar soybeans and corn were transposed in a story under the headline, “IMF approves 3-year not ambassador while they were withheld. at the University of Virginia Law School, about spring planting in Sunday’s Business $6.6bn package”, said the International expressed frustration that gay rights advo- section. Monetary Fund had approved a three-year An article on March 20 about signs of spring cates criticizing the Indiana version of the $6.64 billion package for Pakistan. and things to look forward to as the season law did not acknowledge that the laws never March 31, 2015 Tuesday The IMF had, in fact, given the go-ahead, arrives referred incorrectly to the migratory had been used successfully to override non- A double-page election spread (A-Z of the at a meeting in Washington on Friday, for habits of some birds. Bufflehead ducks and discrimination statutes. Laycock was quoted coalition, 30 March, page 20) referred to a release of $501 million as the seventh tran- saw-whet owls live in New York City in the saying, “I don’t know if they don’t know pledge by David Cameron to scrap exclu- che under the Extended Fund Facility, a winter and go north in early spring. They do that, or whether they’re pandering to their sive zero-hours contracts, which stop people $6.64bn package approved earlier. The error not arrive in New York in the spring. Great base.” The story should have made clear his under contract seeking work from another is regretted. horned owls live in the city year-round. They comment was about Republican sponsors company, and said Labour now wanted to do not leave and return in the spring. of the law who Laycock felt were wrongly go further and ban such contracts altogether. A review on March 15 about “For Love of promising that the laws would protect reli- To clarify, Labour has said it will ban all Country,” by Howard Schultz and Rajiv An Op-Ed article on Wednesday imprecisely gious objectors from having to recognize gay “exploitative” zero-hours contracts, not all Chandrasekaran, misstated the reason that described a provision in the Constitution. It marriage. zero-hours contracts. 41 Army Rangers in one of the accounts forbids members of the Electoral College to from the book received Purple Hearts after vote for both a president and vice president April 1, 2015 Wednesday An article on Sunday about former President their company was ambushed in an Afghan from the same state as themselves, but it does A report about London housing associa- Bill Clinton’s role in his wife’s likely presi- minefield. As is the case with all presenta- not explicitly ban the election of a president tions switching thousands of tenancies on to dential campaign referred imprecisely, in tions of the Purple Heart, it was because and vice president from the same state. higher rates of rent to make up for a short- some editions to the driver of Mr. Clinton’s they were wounded or killed in the service fall in government funding overstated some S.U.V. The vehicle is driven by a United of their country, not specifically for demon- We have been asked to clarify that although data because it was aggregated in error. The States Secret Service agent; Mr. Clinton is strated bravery. Sir Michael Moritz said there would be Greater London Authority has since said not “chauffeured.” “some sort of setback” in Silicon Valley, he that its database was not presented clearly. An article on March 8 about the army jac- did not say that it was a “bubble . . . about to Since the start of the 2012-13 financial year, An article on Sunday about screening pro- ket misstated the original color of the Army burst” (Business, Mar 24). total extra rent charged has been £50m, not grams for mental health and shifting ideas M-65 field jacket. It was Olive Green 107, £70m. The number of homes converted over of pilot fitness described incorrectly a person not Army Green Shade 44. A sentence in the Editorial, “An embarras- that period is 11,000, not 25,000. London who was evaluated by Dr. Ryan Shugarman, sing stance“ (March 27, 2015) said: “This is and Quadrant converted 1,673 homes, earn- a psychiatrist in Alexandria, Va., and was An article last Sunday about Americans hard to believe; in September 2014, India ing £4.2m extra (not more than 3,000 and found to have suicidal thoughts. The person recruited by the Islamic State misstated the was one of the few countries to abstain from £7.4m). Circle Anglia converted 1,337, was a pilot applicant, not a pilot. affiliation of the husband of a Muslim con- a historic vote on violence and discrimina- earning £3.8m extra (not almost 2,500 and vert from San Francisco who calls herself tion again sexual minorities. It should have £6.5m) and Notting Hill converted 853, The Common Sense column on Friday, Chloe online. He is a fighter with the Nusra been against. earning £3.3m extra (not almost 2,000 about the marriage of Bob Page, a North Front, not the Islamic State. Because of that and £6.4m). Affinity Sutton converted 295 Carolina businessman who spoke out error, the article also misstated the num- March 27, 2015 Friday homes (not nearly 1,000) over the past year against the state’s constitutional amendment ber of American women that Anat Agron, An article on Thursday about the beginning (Change of name adds £70m to London banning gay marriage, misspelled the sur- a researcher with the Middle East Media of American airstrikes against the Islamic rents, 30 March, page 6). name of his partner, whom he married on Research Institute, said are associated with State in Tikrit, Iraq, misstated, in some edi- Wednesday, months after the amendment the Islamic State. It is three, not four. tions, the location from which a speech by An article on Thursday about a discovery was declared unconstitutional. He is Dale The article also misstated the current status Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi praising the by French investigators that one of the two Frederiksen, not Fredericksen. of Abdullahi Yusuf, who was caught trying strikes was broadcast. He was in Baghdad, pilots on the Germanwings jet that crashed to leave Minneapolis for Syria and is awai- not in Salahuddin Province. in the French Alps had left the cockpit Our abject apologies to His Majesty King ting sentencing. He does not currently work before the plane’s descent and was unable Richard lll, and all his admirers, for mista- at Best Buy or attend community college In the March 26 Business section, an arti- to get back in misstated the location of the kenly impugning his reputation by sugge- because his work and studies were interrup- cle about proposed rules restricting pay- plane crash relative to Nice. The crash was sting he murdered one of Henry Vl’s brot- ted when he was jailed for a time starting day lenders said that one provision would northwest of Nice, not northeast. Because of hers (among others) in our story ‘A hearse, a in late November. (His supporters say they require lenders to determine borrowers’ abil- other editing errors, a picture caption with hearse, my kingdom for a hearse’ (Mar 23). are working with the court to get him re- ity to repay loans. The article also should the article overstated, in some editions, what We meant to say he may (or may not, depen- enrolled in classes and eventually back to have said the proposal provides an option was known about the members of a search ding on your historical source) have murde- work.) that would let lenders instead offer more team looking for clues on a mountainside red one of his own brothers, the Duke of affordable repayment plans. and referred imprecisely, in some editions, Clarence, who was actually executed for tre- An article last Sunday about an angry pro- to their formation. Although the search- ason, although William Shakespeare lays the test in Osorno, Chile, over the installation An article on Thursday about provisions in ers were military personnel, it is not known crime at his door in his play. of a new Roman Catholic bishop accused the Trans-Pacific Partnership, as outlined whether any of them are officers, and they of complicity in a notorious case of clerical in a classified document, that would allow were shown climbing a winding path on the In addition, we suggested Richard lll, above, sexual abuse referred incorrectly in some edi- foreign corporations to sue the United States mountain; they had not formed a search was the last “British” monarch to die in battle tions to the security forces who escorted the over actions that hurt their business or invest- line. in 1485. We should have said “English”. The bishop, Juan Barros, out a side door of the ment expectations misstated when the docu- Union of the Crowns didn’t take place until cathedral where the installation ceremony ment was made available to members of A picture caption with an article on Monday 1603. We apologise to His Majesty James IV was held. They were police special forces, not Congress. Drafts were available for review about Operation Dragoon Ride, a 1,100- of Scotland, who was the last monarch to private guards. soon after being written; it is not the case mile United States Army convoy through die in battle in 1513 at Flodden and to any that the latest document was not made avai- Eastern Europe meant to reassure allies ner- English person who might object to their The Download feature last Sunday misstated lable until last week. vous about Russian intentions, referred incor- 16th century ancestors being called British. the recent anniversary of the firebombing of rectly to the military vehicles making the Dresden. It was the 70th anniversary, not A map on Wednesday with an article about trip along with the troops. As the article We reported Professor Paul Nimmo, of the 50th. the crash of a German jetliner in the French correctly noted, they are Stryker armored Aberdeen University, as writing that “In Alps, in some editions, carried an impre- vehicles, not tanks. eternity God chose some people for salva- A cover opinion essay last Sunday, about cise label marking the plane’s altitude at one tion and others for damnation” (Scotland, nepotism in America, incorrectly asserted location along its flight path. It was about An article on Friday about a raid on the Mar 5). Professor Nimmo has asked us to that there were no American parent-child 6,880 feet above the ground – not simply offices of a leading human rights organiza- clarify that he was quoting from a historical pairs among Nobel Prize winners. In fact, “10,000 feet.” (That is how many feet it was tion by Chinese security agents misquoted document, and that this is not his own posi- Arthur Kornberg won a Nobel Prize in above sea level.) Maya Wang, a researcher for Human Rights tion. We apologise for the error. Medicine in 1959, and his son Roger D. Watch in Hong Kong who said Chinese Kornberg won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry An article on March 16 about a dispute over authorities viewed such groups as poten- We gave incorrect locations for two Scottish in 2006. how goods are produced and sold on Etsy, an tial conduits for subversion. She said the constituencies – Paisley & Renfrewshire online market for handmade products, para- Chinese government saw some nongovern- South and Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch & An article about the reburial of Richard III phrased incorrectly some comments on the mental organizations as “fomenting color Strathspey – in our political landscape map said his skeleton had a curved spine consis- matter by Nicole Burisch, a fellow with the revolution” – one of the Communist Party’s (Red Box, Mar 30). tent with a hunched back. In fact, examina- Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. She said it 5 was increasingly difficult to distinguish hand- Philadelphia Daily News, but it also has its 24 March, page 8) was wrong to say that the British rule of Diego Garcia into question, made items from mass-produced ones. She did own editorial staff.) Liberal Democrat MP Jeremy Browne would 20 March, page 4) referred to a “dissenting not raise a question about whether a hand- face a “fight for his political life in Taunton opinion from two of the five judges” and to knit sweater or clay pot was handmade. A March 24 Page One article about whether Deane”. Browne announced last October the “two dissenting judges”. To clarify: the the simplicity of setting up an Apple Pay that he was standing down and would not two judges did not dissent from the main Thomas L.Friedman’s column on Wednesday account may be contributing to a rise in contest the seat. The Liberal Democrat can- judgment in the case. They issued a “dis- incorrectly described the Taliban as an reports of fraud incorrectly said that users’ didate is Rachel Gilmour. senting and concurring opinion” that found Arab movement. Most of its members are credit card information is sent to Apple. that the tribunal had jurisdiction to deal Pashtuns, not Arabs. That data is sent only to the card issuer. The Saturday interview with Libby Lane, with the issue of sovereignty over the Chagos the first female bishop in the Church of archipelago and concluded that the UK does Mark Bittman’s column on Wednesday An article on Friday about the challenges England, said that she was among the first not have sovereignty. The three arbitrators in incorrectly described thalidomide as a pro- awaiting Israel’s newly united Arab political women to be ordained as priests in 1990. the majority declined to express any view on duct the government failed to ensure was faction in Parliament misstated the number The first women priests were ordained in the that issue. safe before it went to market. The drug, of Arab citizens of Israel. There are about Church of England a little later than that, which was linked to birth defects in other 1.4 million, not 1.7 million. (The larger in 1994 (‘Whatever the Church’s failings, I A sentence in one of the responses in the countries in the 1950s and ‘60s, was never number includes 300,000 East Jerusalem really think this is where God has put me’, Comment page interview, “Don’t call me approved for use in the United States as a Palestinians, the vast majority of whom are 21 March, page 33). Muslim, I am an atheist” (March 21, 2015), sedative. (The F.D.A. has approved its use to legal residents but do not hold citizenship.) read: “I objected to the oppression of Hindus treat multiple myeloma and a complication An article on Saturday about Vladimir in Bangladesh, objected to Jewish oppres- of leprosy.) An article on Tuesday about metamaterials, Tolstoy, a great-great-grandson of Leo sion in Nazi Germany, Bosnia, Palestine, which bend light, sound and seismic waves Tolstoy and an adviser on cultural affairs to and Christian oppression in Pakistan.” It March 26, 2015 Thursday in ways that do not naturally occur, mis- President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, mis- should have read: “I objected to the oppres- We got a year wrong in an opinion piece that stated the date the French construction firm stated the given name of a Russian writer sion of Hindus in Bangladesh, Jews in Nazi said “Asquith depended on Irish votes in the Menard published a paper describing a test who died this month and who was praised Germany, Muslims in Bosnia, Palestine and 1906 parliament and finally overrode the of a novel way of counteracting the effects by Mr. Tolstoy as the best writer of the past Christians in Pakistan. Lords veto” (An antidote to Salmond: offer of an earthquake. It was in 2013, not earlier half-century. He was Valentin Rasputin, not the Scots home rule, 26 March, page 37). this month. Vladimir. Four casinos closed in Atlantic City, N.J., The Liberal government elected in 1906 had last year. The number was incorrect in a an overall majority. It was after the general Charles M. Blow’s column on Monday An obituary on Feb. 1 about Richard von story on Page 1 Sunday. elections of January and December 1910 misstated the origin of a claim, which Weizsäcker, the first president of the reunited that Herbert Asquith’s minority government drew a rebuke from Prime Minister David Germany, misstated the timing of his deci- March 22, 2015 Sunday depended on Irish votes, and the Lords veto Cameron of Britain, that there were “no-go sion to join the German Protestant Church. A March 15 Spring Arts Preview caption was abolished by the Parliament Act of 1911. zones” for non-Muslims in Europe, includ- He joined the church’s lay assembly while he under an artwork by Sturtevant called the ing the city of Birmingham, England. The was working in private industry, not after he piece “Target With Four Faces.” The work Virgin Trains A March 23 article about the claim was first made by a Fox News analyst, left it. The obituary also referred incorrectly is called “Johns Target With Four Faces UK’s new high-speed railways quoted a Steven Emerson, not Gov. Bobby Jindal of to Theodor Heuss’s victory in the 1954 elec- (study).” commentator’s opinion on the viability of Louisiana (who repeated it but did not men- tion for president of the Federal Republic of the HS2 line that was conditional on Virgin tion Birmingham). Germany. Mr. Heuss was elected the repub- In our article “Scandal as 280,000 tonnes Trains “getting its journey times down to lic’s first president in 1949 and re-elected of recycling ends up as landfill” published two hours from Crewe to London”. In fact, An article about West Fife, a seat held five years later; he was not “elected the first on January 11, 2015, we said that about the journey time on this route has been by Willie Gallacher from 1935 to 1950, federal president in 1954.” 280,000 tonnes of plastic and paper was approximately 1 hour 40 mins since 2008. said that he was the last Communist to be treated as ordinary household waste last year returned to Westminster. He was one of the An article Monday about a Ukrainian sol- because it was labelled “contaminated’. In An editing error in one of the stories from last two. Gallacher and Phil Piratin, who was dier being treated in Maryland incorrectly fact the 280,000 tonnes rejected included immigrants featured in Tuesday’s G2 said elected as MP for Mile End in 1945, both identified the individual who approved waste that could not be recycled. We would that for more than half a decade, no one had lost their seats in the 1950 general election his treatment. It was Deputy Secretary of also like to point out that in the year 2013- identified Ahuvia Kahane’s accent as Israeli. (The town I grew up in feels bigger today Defense Robert Work. The article also incor- 14 a total of 9.98 million tonnes of house- That should have said that no one had iden- – and the SNP are taking it in their stride, rectly identified Kevin Kiley; he is a former hold waste was recycled. tified his accent in more than half a century 21 March, page 37). surgeon general of the Army. (‘I am here to stay...’, 24 March, page 4). A Country Diary from Sunderland (19 A story Monday incorrectly described a An item on Sunday’s weather page incor- March, page 42) that discussed a close exam- We wrongly referred to pilots “boycotting” video of the arrest of University of Virginia rectly described how to spot Mars and Venus ination of the coltsfoot plant (Tussilago far- Airbus aircraft in the aftermath of Tuesday’s student Martese Johnson. It showed Johnson after sunset. They are on the western horizon fara) said that the “central disc florets in this crash (News, Mar 25). The German pilots’ on the ground, his face bloodied, but did in the evening hours this time of year. composite flower are male. Each has a central union has stated that the Germanwings not show the preceding moments. anther rising like a piston through the rest of pilots who refused to fly did so because of A recipe for chicken for Passover in the the stamen”. In fact, while textbook descrip- emotional distress and not out of safety March 24, 2015 Tuesday March 18 Let’s Eat section contained corn- tions of coltsfoot inflorescences do describe concerns. An article on Thursday about a massacre at starch, which is traditionally avoided by the central disc florets as being entirely male, a museum in downtown Tunis misspelled some Jews of Eastern European descent dur- the writer’s original observation was that, if Polish speakers were quick to point out the given name of one of those injured, a ing Passover. Potato starch or arrowroot may one looks closely, it becomes apparent that that the advertisements shown pinned to a Japanese tourist. She is Nobuko Yuki, not be used in its place. the central disc florets are in fact structurally noticeboard in a photograph accompanying Nobuku. hermaphrodite, with a central stigma forcing a feature about immigration were not look- The Editorial, “Disquieting injustice” pollen from a ring of anthers surrounding it. ing for Polish workers, as we said in the cap- An article on Friday about efforts by Prime (March 24, 2015), said: “… on March 21, tion. They were all for flatshares or rooms Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel to the 19 accused [in the Hashimpura massacre A missing word resulted in a piece about cli- to rent (How immigration came to haunt backtrack from his pre-election declaration case] were let free due to lack of sufficient mate change saying that limiting the Earth’s Labour, 24 March, page 27). that no Palestinian state would be estab- evidence and the inability of the witnesses to surface temperature to 2C would make it lished on his watch erroneously translated identify the accused.” Only 16 were let free. impossible to burn many fossil fuel reserves, A picture caption on Wednesday with the his response to a question asked by a right- Three of the accused died during the trial. according to a report by the Green European continuation of an article about the fatal leaning Israeli news site on Monday, the Foundation. The threshold is a surface tem- shooting of Anthony Hill by a police officer day before the election. Asked, “If you are The Herald editorial on Monday, “Foley’s perature increase of 2C (Davey backs switch near Atlanta misidentified the state where prime minister, a Palestinian state will not dishonest scare v Baird’s ‘bad for the budget’ from coal to green investments, 18 March). Mr. Hill was buried. As the article correctly be established?” he responded, “Indeed,” not “, incorrectly said NSW Treasurer Andrew noted, the burial was in South Carolina, not “Correct.” (The Hebrew words for these are Constance had contacted investment bank A report on the recent shootings in in Georgia. In addition, the article misstated very similar.) UBS about its analysts’ report on privati- Gothenburg (Two dead and 10 injured after part of the name of the church that Mr. sation. Mr Constance has said he did not pub gun attack, 20 March, page 32) wrongly Hill had attended. The church is in Moncks An article on Jan. 13 about the first day back make contact. The Herald regrets the error. referred to the city as Sweden’s third-largest. Corner, the city where he was buried, and at school for survivors of a massacre at a It is the country’s second-largest. therefore it is Moncks Corner African school in Pakistan misstated the date of the IN our story ‘We Live in A Ford Focus’, Methodist Episcopal Church (not Moncks massacre. It was Dec. 16, not Dec. 15. March 18 2015, we suggested that loans An article last Sunday about JSwipe, a dating “Hill”). taken out by Mr and Mrs Sherlock with app intended for Jewish people, referred A headline on a March 22A-section arti- PayDay UK and other companies had been incorrectly to Jordan Rodman’s presence at The Economic Scene column on Wednesday, cle about the reburial in England of King a contributory factor to their situation. The a shiva. Ms. Rodman, who commented on about the construction of the American Richard III incorrectly referred to the fur- Sun is happy to clarify that, in fact, Mr and her use of JSwipe, was paying her respects social safety net, misstated the timing of niture maker who carved the coffin as an Mrs Sherlock have had no dealings with to a family in mourning; she herself was not President George W. Bush’s expansion of ancestor of the monarch. He is a descendant PayDay UK since June 2008. sitting shiva. And the article and its headline prescription drug coverage under Medicare. of the family. erroneously used the Yiddish term “yentas” It happened in 2003, before – not after – he March 23, 2015 Monday to describe JSwipe users. Yentas are busybo- tried to privatize Social Security. An article in some editions on March 15 An article about the achievement of pupils dies, not matchmakers. about the evacuation of American aid work- in London schools said that only 9% got five March 25, 2015 Wednesday ers who may have come into contact with the good grades at GCSE in 2003, compared An article last Sunday about Tomi An article on Tuesday about a Justice Ebola virus in Sierra Leone misidentified, with 70.5% now. In fact 39% achieved five Reichental, a 79-year-old Holocaust sur- Department report on the use of lethal force in some copies, the country where another good GCSE grades (A*-C including English vivor now living in Ireland who speaks to by Philadelphia police officers misidentified American aid worker, Dr. Craig Spencer, and maths) in 2003. The comparable figure schoolchildren about his boyhood in the the news organization in Philadelphia that had been working before he returned to for 2014 is 61.5% (London schools have Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, referred published an exclusive report in 2013 reveal- New York and developed Ebola. Dr. Spencer been turned around – but by policy, or by imprecisely to the wartime location of ano- ing that while crime was down there the returned from Guinea, not from Liberia. changes in ethnicity? 23 March, page 13). ther camp, Gross-Rosen, the site of a forced number of officers firing at suspects was on march in 1945 during which an estimated the rise. The article was by philly.com, not An analysis piece about the forth-coming A piece about a ruling by the UN’s per- 1,400 women died. At the time, it was in by The Philadelphia Inquirer. (Philly.com is general election (Undecided voters will offer manent court of arbitration at The Hague German territory, not Polish, although it the website for both The Inquirer and The an insight on the parties and their leaders, (Tribunal gives hope to islanders as it calls was soon reclaimed by Poland. 6 An article on March 8 about McDonald’s help after tied visas ‘turn them into slaves’, that it would have to cut off food aid for about competition among luxury brands to effortsto turn around its flagging performance 17 March, page 9). Syrian refugees living outside refugee camps. be sponsors of the art fair Art Basel Miami erroneously attributed a distinction to the It is the World Food Program, not the World Beach misidentified the company that company. While it is among the world’s A March 18 A-section article about a solar Health Organization. commissioned the artist Georgia Russell largest restaurant chains, with 36,000 out- storm incorrectly referred to radioactive to design packaging for a limited edition lets globally, it is not the largest. Subway, energy sometimes entering Earth’s upper An article on Friday about the record of the of Champagne bottles for the fair. It was with more than 43,000 outlets worldwide, atmosphere during sunspots. It should have Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, Ruinart, not BMW. is larger. said that radiation or radioactive particles on settlements in the occupied West Bank sometimes enter the upper atmosphere. and East Jerusalem, using information from The Gray Matter feature last Sunday missta- A photo caption with a March 19 Metro Yesh Din, an Israeli settlement watchdog ted an estimate for the growth in the annual article about a service for World War II air- A five-member panel of the House group, misstated the number of illegal out- number of attacks by groups connected men at Arlington National Cemetery incor- Committee on Militia, Police and Public posts that have obtained government approval with Al Qaeda and the Islamic State. It was rectly described the remains that were buried Safety voted Jan. 29 to recommend the def- since 2011 and the number that are in the more than 200 percent, not more than 300 in a single casket. The casket contained two eat of four gun restriction bills that had been pipeline. Nineteen have been approved, not percent. men’s remains. Six other sets of remains were endorsed by Gov. Terry McAuliffe. PolitiFact 12, and six are pending, not 13. buried earlier. Virginia, in a Monday article on Page B1, Because of a translation error, an article incorrectly characterized the fate of the bills. A report in the World Briefing column last Sunday about an investigation by Iraqi March 21, 2015 Saturday on Friday about the discovery of radioac- officials into reports that Islamic State mili- We stated that Finland and Norway are the An article on Thursday about Chinese tive cesium 137 in a sample of powdered tants had destroyed the Hatra archaeological happiest countries in the EU (News, Mar Communist Party leaders’ anger over spe- tea from Japan tested by the Hong Kong site misstated the age of the site. It dates to 20). Norway is not in the EU. culation by the Dalai Lama, the most pro- government misstated the results of the the first century BC, not the 12th. minent leader in Tibetan Buddhism, that he testing and the resolution of the matter. The The article also misidentified the online loca- The mine operator at Red Bone Mining might not reincarnate gave an outdated title sample had 0.93 percent – not 9.3 times – tion of a statement by the Iraqi Ministry of Co.’s Crawdad No. 1 Mine was found not for Padma Choling, who told reporters that the legal limit, and the importer withdrew Tourism and Antiquities in which it blamed to have provided adequate protection in the Dalai Lama had profaned his faith by the tea from the market; the Hong Kong the international coalition fighting the mili- connection to an accident that took the making the suggestion. Padma Choling is a government did not ban its sale. tants for failing to protect Hatra. The state- life of Raymond Scott Savage on Nov. 10, former governor of the Tibetan autonomous ment appeared on the ministry’s website, not according to a report by the Mine Safety and region of China, not the current one. An op-ed in Monday’s paper describing on its Facebook page. Health Administration. Due to a reporter’s failed efforts to revitalize the Sandtown- error, the wrong person appeared as being An article on Monday about the reopen- Winchester neighborhood of Baltimore mis- Skylab, which orbited Earth from 1973 to responsible in March 10 edition of The ing of Hyper Cacher, a kosher market in characterized the Abell Foundation’s role. 1979, was described as “the first space sta- Dominion Post. Paris, for the first time since a gunman who It conducted a study that calculated that tion” in a feature about space architects claimed allegiance to the Islamic State took roughly $130 million in public and private (Let’s all move to Mars, 10 March, page 16). The penultimate paragraph of “Status quo hostages there on Jan. 9 misstated, in some money was invested in the neighborhood The first was the Soviet space station Salyut in Israel“ (Editorial, March 20, 2015) spoke editions, the total number of people killed between the early 1990s and 2000, but the 1, launched in 1971. Skylab was the first, about the emergence of the Joint List as the during the January terror attacks in and foundation itself was not among the funders. and only, US space station. third largest grouping with 12 seats in the around Paris. Twenty were killed, including Knesset. It should have been 13 seats. the three gunmen, not 17. An article on Saturday about Carly Fiorina, A long read article about Yarmouk descri- an outspoken critic of Hillary Rodham bed Talal Alyan as a former resident of the An article on Wednesday about the possible An article on Saturday about the dange- Clinton, quoted incorrectly from a com- Palestinian refugee camp in Syria. Alyan has role of an alliance of Arab parties that won rous appeal of New York City’s rooftops ment she made about Mrs. Clinton. Ms. not lived in the camp; he is a Palestinian- 13 seats in the Israeli Parliament in Tuesday’s and moving subway cars to young darede- Fiorina said, “I think if Hillary Clinton faces American writer and researcher who lives elections misidentified the city that is the vils misstated the given name of the foun- a woman opponent, she will get a hitch in in the US (How a Palestinian refugee camp seat of Israel’s government. It is Jerusalem, der of American Parkour, an academy based her swing,” not in her “sway.” became the worst place in Syria, 5 March, not Tel Aviv. in Washington, D.C., that teaches a form page 29). of urban adventuring. He is Mark Toorock, March 17, 2015 Tuesday Petersburg schools spokeswoman Nicole not Mike. A map on March 9 with the continuation of A March 10 A-section article about former Bell did not say that a student who acciden- an article about efforts to guard the antiqui- secretary of state Hillary Rodham Clinton’s tally shot himself on a school bus had been A story that appeared on the front page on ties of Iraq and Syria mislabeled one of the use of a “special government employee” pro- carrying the weapon in a book bag. A news Feb. 21 about tech companies contributing countries where the Islamic State has been gram incorrectly identified Jeremy Rosner brief Friday on Page B2 mischaracterized to the Mid-Market neighborhood incor- looting and destroying ancient artifacts. It is as a former Clinton pollster. Rosner, now a Bell’s statement on that point. Bell said the rectly reported the amount of money Twitter Iraq, not Iran. Democratic pollster, worked in the White gun was concealed but did not say it was in donated. Twitter gave more than $360,000 House under President Bill Clinton in 1993 a book bag. to local nonprofits. An article on Friday about the record of the and 1994 as a National Security Council Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, counselor and director of legislative affairs. March 20, 2015 Friday A story in the Local News section Sunday on settlements in the occupied West Bank He has done no polling for Bill or Hillary It is the Oxford and Cambridge debating incorrectly reported the details of the land- and East Jerusalem misstated the month that Clinton. unions that are exempt from the ban on mark federal Civil Rights Act. The 1964 Civil he told Bloomberg View that the settlements extremist speakers on university campuses, Rights Act made it unlawful to discriminate were not the core of the Israeli-Palestinian March 14, 2015 Saturday not the student unions, as we stated (News against anyone because of the individual’s conflict. It was May, not October. An article on Thursday about Patrick in brief, Mar 14). race, color, sex, religion or national origin. Maxwell, a war veteran who returned to An article last Tuesday about a United Iraq to fight alongside the Kurds, misstated An article on Wednesday about a vote by the March 18, 2015 Wednesday Nations analysis that showed an “alarmin- a crime for which John Walker Lindh, who Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) to change its The Allan Sloan column in the March 4 gly high” level of violence against women had enlisted with the Taliban in Afghanistan, definition of marriage to include same-sex A-section, about why so many pension funds and girls worldwide understated the cost of received a 20-year prison term. He was sen- marriage misstated the membership of the are in trouble, incorrectly described the low domestic violence against women and child- tenced for providing services to the Taliban United Methodist Church. It is 12.8 million point for the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock ren as calculated by a separate study. It is $8 and for carrying explosives during a felony, worldwide – not 5.5 million, which is the index during the most recent recession. It trillion, not $4 trillion. (Violence against but not for conspiracy to murder American number outside the United States. happened six years ago, not five years ago. women alone costs $4 trillion, the study citizens. said.) An article on Tuesday about the introduc- An article on Monday about a political awa- An article on Friday about the police shoot- tion of ShotSpotter, a detection system kening of Arabs in Israel this election year The Monrovia Journal article on Friday, ing in Ferguson, Mo., and how it might slow that pinpoints the location of gunfire in referred incorrectly to voting rights for Arabs about the disruption wrought by the Ebola changes being made in the city misstated the some New York City neighborhoods, mis- in East Jerusalem. A small number – those outbreak on Liberia’s Decoration Day, an number of years that Kim Tihen, who com- stated the status of a bill that would require who hold Israeli citizenship – are entitled to annual ritual of cleaning and painting the mented on the incident, has been a council- quarterly reports on gunshots recorded by vote in Israeli elections; it is not the case that graves of loved ones, misstated the age of woman. It is three, not 17. ShotSpotter. Letitia James, the public advo- no Arabs in East Jerusalem can vote. Fayiah, a victim of Ebola who was the son of cate, has already introduced the bill to the Finda Fallah, who had no plots to tidy this A picture caption on Thursday about gains City Council; she is not planning to do so. The death rate of babies between 28 and 364 year because her loved ones had been crema- made by Iraqi government forces and allied days old is 1.1 per 1,000 in western Europe ted in a government effort to halt the spread Shiite militias in their nine-day offensive to An article on Wednesday about Diana and 1.2 in the UK. The figure we gave of of the virus by contagious corpses. Fayiah retake Tikrit from Islamic State militants Taurasi’s experiences playing professional 3.8 deaths per 1,000 in the UK (“Baby death was 6 years old, not 8 months. The article misidentified, in some editions, the source basketball in Yekaterinburg, Russia, mis- rate one of the highest in Europe”, News, also misstated the middle name of a nephew of the image showing an armed soldier. The identified the church there that is built over Mar 11) is the rate for all deaths of babies of Ms. Fallah who also died of the virus. He photograph was supplied by The Associated the cellar where the Romanovs were assassi- under a year old in the UK. was Tamba Nino, not Nilo. Press, which took the image from an A.P. nated. It is the Church on Blood in Honor of video; the image was not from “a govern- All Saints Resplendent in the Russian Land We incorrectly stated that savers with both Thomas L. Friedman’s column on Wednesday ment video.” (Only in unusual circum- – not the Church of the Savior on Spilled Halifax and Lloyds Isas would be protected incorrectly suggested that the businessman stances does The Times use pictures or vid- Blood, which is in St. Petersburg. only up to £85,000 under the Financial Sheldon Adelson is Israeli. He is American. eos from governments.) Services Compensation Scheme (“The safe- March 19, 2015 Thursday tyfirst home for tax-free savings”, Money, March 16, 2015 Monday A subheading on Wednesday with an arti- An article about a report into abuse suffe- Mar 14). In fact Lloyds and Halifax operate A picture caption with an article about the cle about conflicting trends on complaints red by foreign domestic workers brought to under separate banking licences and savings effect of climate change on Pacific islands about the New York Police Department the UK on tied visas said that it noted that would be protected up to £85,000 for each. described Tarawa as “the capital atoll of the referred imprecisely to a decline in com- much of the abuse came from households Marshall Islands”. Tarawa is the capital of plaints made directly to the department. linked to the UAE. The report by researchers An article on Monday about the Azraq refu- Kiribati, as an accompanying map showed; While that drop conflicts with other statis- at University College London does not make gee camp in Jordan, which currently houses Majuro is the capital of the Marshall Islands tics showing that complaints directly to the that claim, or single out the UAE. It does say only 14,500 of the 60,000 Syrian refugees (Keep it in the ground, 12 March, page 13). Civilian Complaint Review Board were up, that almost all of the 24 domestic workers expected by the end of last year, misidenti- the decline is not necessarily “deceptive.” As interviewed for the report arrived from Gulf fied the United Nations agency that warned March 15, 2015 Sunday the article noted, the conflicting statistics are countries (Domestic workers ask charity for in December, after a drop in donor funding, A picture caption with an article last Sunday a phenomenon that has puzzled officials. 7 March 13, 2015 Friday architect who collaborated with Mr. Otto on announced in October, had been for “one An article last Monday about Chinese tech- A news analysis article on Wednesday about the West German pavilion for the Montreal debate between the Tory, Labour, Lib Dem nology companies’ efforts to monitor food a debate over protocol touched off by an Expo in 1967. He was Rolf Gutbrod, not and Ukip leaders, one between Cameron, safety misspelled the given name of a shop- open letter to Iran sent by Republican sena- Ralph Gurbrod. Miliband and Clegg, and one between per who was testing a smartphone tracking tors who object to the nuclear deal President Cameron and Clegg”. The proposed two- feature. She is Xu Guilin, not Guillin. Obama is negotiating with Iran misspelled An article on Wednesday about the Senate party debate was between Cameron and the given name of a veteran of the Ronald race in Maryland with the retirement Miliband, not Cameron and Clegg. An article on Wednesday about the growth Reagan and George W. Bush administrations of Barbara Mikulski misstated the posi- of solar energy production in Japan mis- who said the letter was “not an interference tion of the Progressive Change Campaign In a March 6 Op-Ed article on fee and divi- spelled the name of an island near Nagasaki in negotiations.” He is Elliott Abrams, not Committee, which is rallying behind one dend carbon pricing, the United States was on which a real estate developer hopes to Elliot. The article also referred incorrectly to candidate, regarding Senator Elizabeth identified as having the highest per capita build a solar power plant. It is Ukujima, not the director of the Foundation for Strategic Warren, a Massachusetts Democrat. While carbon dioxide emissions in the world. In Ukushima. Research in Paris, who said that if the deal the organization has urged presidential can- fact, many countries have higher per capita were taken to the United Nations Security didates to adopt Ms. Warren’s populist posi- CO2 emissions, but of the top six carbon March 8, 2015 Sunday Council for approval, it would enshrine legal tions, it has not endorsed her for president. emitting countries or regions (U.S., China, An article on Nov 9, 2014 mistakenly stated obligations on Iran. The director, Camille Russia, India, Japan and the European that judges’ rulings invoking Article 8 of the Grand, is a man. March 11, 2015 Wednesday Union), the U.S. has the highest per capita European Convention on Human Rights – Since we published our stories about Whisper emissions. the right to “respect for family life” – were The market report on January 13 stated that between 16 October and 25 October 2014, solely responsible for the increasing settle- Alexander Machkevitch, Patokh Chodiev the company has provided further informa- An article on Friday about a leadership ment in the UK of family members of peo- and Alijan Ibragimov had floated ENRC tion. We confirm that Whisper had drafted void among Russia’s opposition left by the ple settled here. In fact, EU rules and UK and lost backers money. While the three the changes to its terms of service and pri- murder of Boris Y. Nemtsov, an outspoken law also govern such settlement. men are substantial shareholders in ENRC, vacy policy before Whisper became aware Kremlin critic, misspelled the surname of In addition, the article said that up to 100 we have been informed they did not sit on that the Guardian was intending to write an opposition politician who said it was not members of each family could be admitted; the board and were not involved in the day- about it. We reported that IP addresses clear that his colleagues could increase their we wish to clarify that this estimate was not to-day running of the company, and it was can only provide an approximate indica- presence in Parliament in 2016 elections. He based on a documented case. The article therefore incorrect to state that they had lost tion of a person’s whereabouts, not usually is Vladimir A. Ryzhkov, not Ryzkhov. The also stated that in the “Abdulaziz” case, the investors money. more accurate than their country, state or article also misstated part of the address of European Court of Human Rights held that city. We are happy to clarify that this data a website established in Latvia last year by a anyone legally entitled to live in a country is An article on Monday about concern among (which all internet companies receive) is a journalist, Galina Timchenko, after she was then entitled to bring in other members of Afghans over President Ashraf Ghani’s enlist- very rough and unreliable indicator of loca- fired from a respected Russian news organi- their family. We wish to clarify that this case ment of Pakistan’s help to pressure Taliban tion. We are also happy to make clear that zation. It is Meduza.io, not Meduza.com. upheld the principle that immigration rules leaders to join peace talks misstated the the public cannot ascertain the identity or governing the admission of family members timing of a warning by Abdul Rab Rassoul location of a Whisper user unless the user The Addis Ababa Journal article on must be consistent with the Article 8 right Sayyaf, an Afghan mujahedeen commander, publicly discloses this information, that the Wednesday, about Ethiopia’s booming to respect for family life. However, the appli- about the perils of getting closer to Pakistan. information Whisper shared with the US economy and the government’s efforts to cants lost their cases on their particular facts. It took place on Feb. 15, not “in the last Department of Defense’s Suicide Prevention make Ethiopia a middle-income country The article further said that all these mem- week.” Office did not include personal data, and by 2025, misstated part of the name of the bers of the family would be entitled to ben- that Whisper did not store data outside the governing party. It is the Ethiopian People’s efits in the UK, whereas in fact only some A sentence in “India and Mauritius United States. Whisper’s terms for sharing Revolutionary Democratic Front, not the would be. It also stated that countless EU announce security cooperation pact“ information proactively with law enforce- Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Party. families with only one economically active (March 12, 2015) read: “Mauritius celebra- ment authorities where there is a danger of member entered the UK under human rights tes its National Day on March 12 as a mark death or serious injury is both lawful and An article on Wednesday about diplomatic rules, whereas they enter under EU rules. of respect to Mahatma Gandhi, who began industry standard. The Guardian did not disputes over Indonesia’s campaign to exe- his Dandi march on this day in 1915.” It report that any of Whisper’s activities were cute drug offenders, mostly foreigners con- In the March 6 Section A, an article about should be 1930.​ unlawful. However, we are happy to clarify victed of smuggling, misstated the day that a new generation of civil rights leaders mis- that there is no evidence for that suggestion. the Reuters news service reported that two quoted Selma activist DeRay Mckesson An article on Wednesday about the copy- Whisper contests many other aspects of our Australians had been flown to an Indonesian as saying, “Protest isn’t always confronta- right infringement trial involving the song reporting. The Guardian has clarified an island where executions are carried out. It tion; protest isn’t always physical.” What “Blurred Lines” referred imprecisely to the article about Whisper’s terms of service and was Wednesday morning, not Tuesday eve- Mckesson said was, “Protest is always con- damages awarded to the family of Marvin removed an opinion piece entitled “Think ning. Because of an editing error, the article frontation; protest isn’t always physical.” Gaye. The family had the option of choosing you can Whisper privately? Think again”. overstated what was known about the trans- $7.3 million in actual damages or $9,000 in fer of eight remaining prisoners to the island An article last Sunday about a long-running statutory damages; they could not collect A picture caption on Saturday with an arti- last week. Some had already been transferred barn dance outside Arthur, N.D., referred both. cle about tensions at the Brooklyn Children’s as of last Tuesday, but it was not clear how incorrectly to the 1960s Midwestern rock Museum over the direction of its expan- many; it is not the case that all eight remai- band Dee Jay and the Runaways, which used Because of editing errors, an article on sion misstated the cost of an annex to the ned to be transferred. to play Johnson’s Barn. The band was from Monday about the code of silence in the museum in the Dumbo neighborhood. As Spirit Lake, Iowa – not Spirit Lake, Minn. New Delhi neighborhood that is home to the article correctly noted, the annex is being Investigators have concluded that Michael Mukesh Singh, a man convicted of the gang donated; it did not cost the museum $80 Brown was coming toward Ferguson police A report about staff employed by MPs and rape of a woman on a bus in 2012 who is fea- million. Officer Darren Wilson when Wilson fatally peers who also have lobbying or other out- tured in a British-made documentary about shot Brown last Aug. 9. A story in Monday’s side interests suggested that one had been the crime, misidentified the person who said In some editions of the March 4 Metro main news section incorrectly described that paid by lobbyists who represent Shell. In fact he was driving the bus on the night of the section, Courtland Milloy’s column about conclusion. the company referred to advises Shell but attack but did not take part, and the per- the D.C. Council imposing new limits on does not lobby on its behalf (Lobbying links son who described intestines being pulled marijuana use incorrectly described the An article on Thursday about the role of of hundreds of parliamentary staff revealed, from the victim’s body. In both cases, it was November ballot measure that legalized the chief counsel for Gov. Chris Christie of 6 March, page 20). Mukesh Singh, not his older brother, Ram, marijuana. It said that under that measure, New Jersey in brokering a settlement with another of the accused men, who was found smoking marijuana outdoors was “little ExxonMobil over an environmental con- An article on Feb. 15 about people who have hanged in his jail cell before his trial. more than a civil no-no” punishable by fines. tamination lawsuit misstated the middle ini- been publicly shamed as a result of mes- Smoking marijuana in public has always tial of the judge who was to decide on the sages they posted on social media misstated March 12, 2015 Thursday been an offense for which a person could case. He is Michael J. Hogan, not Michael the time frame in which Adria Richards, an An article on Tuesday about South Koreans’ be arrested. The column also mischaracter- S. Hogan. employee at SendGrid, a Colorado-based divided reactions to a knife attack on the ized U.S. Attorney’s Office figures regard- email delivery service, was let go from the United States ambassador, Mark W. Lippert, ing arrests for marijuana possession; those March 9, 2015 Monday company. She was terminated the same day in Seoul referred incorrectly in some editi- figures measured the impact of an earlier We stated that “eight former Soviet states a distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) ons to Mr. Lippert’s facial injuries. He was decriminalization measure, not legalization. joined the EU in 2004” (“Labour ‘con- was launched against SendGrid’s website, slashed on his right cheek, not his left. spiracy let in 3.6m to create multicultural not the day after. U.S. foodmakers produced 39 billion Britain”, News, March 5). In fact, of the An article on Wednesday about gamma pounds of chicken in 2014. An incorrect ten new member countries that year, only In the March 1 Section A, an article about rays observed in a distant dwarf galaxy that number appeared in a March 5 story about Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania were from the activists in Texas pushing for legislation that could be evidence of dark matter misidenti- McDonald’s restricting chicken treated with former Soviet Union. would allow people to openly carry hand- fied one of two groups that found the gal- human antibiotics. guns said that Claire Larson, who is opposed axy, known as Reticulum-2, in data from the An article (Money launderers exploit UK to such legislation, is a gun owner. She is not. Dark Energy Survey. It was a group from March 10, 2015 Tuesday property market, 4 March, page 11) said Cambridge University, not a group led by An article on Friday about a study of Twitter that developing countries were losing an March 7, 2015 Saturday Alex Geringer-Sameth of Carnegie Mellon use by the Islamic State militant group estimated $1tn a year from corruption, but An article in some editions on Sunday about University. (Dr. Geringer-Sameth’s group referred imprecisely to the role of Google gave the conversion rate as $1tn = £650m. an announcement of retaliatory steps against used the information to scour telescope data Ideas in the study. It financed the study, That should have been £650bn. the United States by President Nicolás and produce the gamma ray observation.) which was published by the Brookings Maduro of Venezuela, who said Washington Institution, but did not contribute research An article on Friday about Jeb Bush’s strug- was meddling in Venezuelan affairs, rendered An article on Wednesday about the shoo- or other work; the study was not a “collab- gle to win over Republicans in Iowa mis- incorrectly part of the name of the North ting of an unarmed black man by police in oration” of the Brookings Institution and spelled the name of a county in the state. It Dakota city that is home to four American DeKalb County in Georgia misstated the Google Ideas. is Greene County, not Green. missionaries who were held and questioned surname of the victim in some editions. He in Venezuela over four days before being is Anthony Hill, not Hall. In an article about a Downing Street pro- In an Op-Ed article about oil refinery safety, released. The city is Devils Lake, not Devil’s posal that there should be just one televised refineries were cited as California’s single Lake. An article on Wednesday about the awarding election debate between seven party lead- largest stationary source of greenhouse gas of the Pritzker Prize to the German archi- ers (Cameron’s ultimatum to broadcast- emissions. The top five stationary emitters An article on Wednesday about the Food tect Frei Otto, who died on Monday, mis- ers over TV debates, 5 March, page 1), we are refineries, but power plants in aggregate and Drug Administration’s announcement stated the given name and the surname of an suggested that the broadcasters’ initial plan, emit more greenhouse gases. that labels for testosterone products must 8 start acknowledging heart risks, using infor- A March 4 Metro article about Alexandria’s An article on Tuesday about the divergent round (The humiliating of Natalie Bennett, mation from the agency, misstated the date proposed budget incorrectly said that the approaches of President Obama and Prime 25 February, page 33). by which sponsors of the products have to city had reallocated unused federal funds Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel to respond to the agency’s requirement. The from some departments to the city’s pro- the perils of a nuclear-armed Iran quoted An article on Tuesday about an increase in deadline is Wednesday, not Tuesday. posed 2016 budget. In fact, the city renego- incorrectly from a speech by Mr. Netanyahu the number of Afghan refugees being forced tiated a contract with its juvenile detention at the American Israel Public Affairs out of or pressured to leave Pakistan mis- An article on Friday about an Alabama center to account for new federal funds that Committee conference. He said: “Today, we stated part of the name of an intergovern- coal producer’s libel suit against Terrence the center received, saving the city $1 mil- are no longer silent. Today, we have a voice. mental group that works with migrants and Collingsworth, a plaintiffs’ lawyer known lion for the coming year. And tomorrow, as prime minister of the refugees. It is the International Organization for suing multinational corporations on one and only Jewish state, I plan to use that for Migration, not the International charges of violating human rights over- A report by the Commons science and voice” – not “I plan to use that state.” Organization of Migration. seas, paraphrased incorrectly a comment by technology committee published this week The article also referred incorrectly to Sandra Baron, an expert in libel law. She said says the current financial arrangements for the guests the White House invited to a An Associated Press report in the World it was highly unusual for a lawyer to be sued the funding of the Royal Botanic Gardens trade meeting on Tuesday at a time that Briefing column on Friday about the death for slander, not “highly usual.” at Kew in London are “a recipe for failure”, would make it hard for them to attend of Avijit Roy, an American-Bangladeshi not a “recipe for disaster” as we had it (Kew Mr. Netanyahu’s speech. It was just House blogger who was hacked with machetes In the Feb. 27 California section, an arti- funding is ‘recipe for disaster’, warn MPs, Democratic aides, not House Democrats or while walking with his wife in Dhaka, the cle about Los Angeles County’s efforts to 4 March, page 12). Our article also said that their aides. Bangladeshi capital, omitted the wife’s sur- establish a new court for sex trafficking vic- a £5m hole in the Kew Gardens budget “had name. She is Rafida Ahmed Bonya. tims said that the county’s Department of led to more than 100 people losing their An article on Tuesday about a report’s find- Children and Family Services estimated that jobs, including more than 50 scientists”. ing that the European Union will fail to A tenth of Europe’s renewable energy comes as many as 300 young people in foster care In fact fewer scientists than that lost their meet its goal of significantly reducing green- from solar and not a tenth of its total power are selling themselves for sex. In fact, up to jobs: 47 science posts were axed, and 15 of house gas emissions by 2050 unless it takes as wrongly stated in an article published on 300 foster children have a history of being those were vacant. more aggressive measures erroneously attrib- February 25. sold for sex and currently require interven- uted a distinction to Germany. Germany tion services, according to Diane Iglesias, a An article on Wednesday about the pas- and Belgium – not just Germany – are A picture caption last Monday with an arti- senior deputy director of the department. sage of legislation banning the sale and the only countries in the European Union cle about mixed reactions among Chinese- possession of beef in the Indian state of not on track to meet their 2020 targets in Americans to the indictment of Officer Peter March 6, 2015 Friday Maharashtra erroneously attributed a dis- emissions. Liang in the death of a man in a Brooklyn An article on Sat. about Shahid King Bolsen, tinction to Maharashtra. At least one other housing project stairwell misspelled the given an American convert to Islam whose online Indian state, Gujarat, has already banned An article last Wednesday about home name of a bakery customer in Bensonhurst, calls for protests against corporate interests the sale of beef; Maharashtra is not the first builders’ targeting of affluent buyers mis- Brooklyn, who said she felt the indictment in Egypt have fueled a new wave of violence state to do so. Because of an editing error, stated the inspiration for the former estate was unfair. As the article noted correctly, she directed at businesses across the country, mis- the article also referred incorrectly to the upon which the luxury-home builder Toll is Vivian Tan, not Vivan. stated, using information from Mr. Bolsen, victory by the Bharatiya Janata Party, which Brothers is building its Liseter development his position at The Rocky Mountain News, had promoted the ban, in Maharashtra state in Newtown Square, Pa. It was Montpelier, March 1, 2015 Sunday a Denver newspaper that closed in 2009. He elections in October. It won the most votes, James Madison’s home – not Monticello, An article last Sunday about a debate over worked in the circulation department; he but not a majority. Thomas Jefferson’s home. same-sex marriage among the Navajos mis- was not a journalist. An article on Tuesday stated the number of federally recognized about the Chinese military authority’s An article on Tuesday about preparations by An article on Tuesday about consumer American Indian tribes. There are 566, not release of a list of 14 generals who are under the Fire Department of New York to swear spending behavior at a time of lower gas 556. investigation or have been convicted of graft in its first lesbian chaplain described incor- prices misstated the point at which light misstated the rank of Guo Zhenggang, one rectly the class-action lawsuit that led to the trucks and S.U.V.s came to account for 56 An Oct. 23 Style article about senior adults’ of those under investigation. He is a major hiring of female firefighters. It was filed by percent of total auto sales. The figure was for growing use of Facebook incorrectly iden- general, not a rear admiral. just one applicant, Brenda Berkman, not by January 2015, not for last year. tified the home city of KARE-11, the several women. The article also misspelled TV station that produced a segment on “Bankruptcy law reform needed“ (Editorial, the surname of the president of the United An Op-Ed article on Tuesday misstated the Anna Stoehr, a 114-year-old woman who March 4, 2015) said as per the recent Doing Women Firefighters. She is Sarinya Srisakul, change the writer experienced while impris- lied about her age so she could register Business, 2015 Report, India is ranked 134 not Sriaskul. oned in Egypt. He abandoned the ideology on the social media site. The station is in on the ease of doing business. It should have of Islamism – not of Islam. Minneapolis, not Plainview, Minn. been 142nd rank. The story headlined “Reform regulations to protect domestic helpers” published on page March 3, 2015 Tuesday Several recent articles carried a photograph An article on Wednesday about the eruption C3 on Monday wrongly stated that domestic A report about a group of doctors from the of Cindy Crawford said to be a “leaked” pic- of tensions between Iraq and the United helpers faced discrimination by being barred UK treating Palestinian victims of the recent ture from a Marie Claire Mexico and Latin States over how to battle the Islamic State from public swimming pools. In fact, the conflict in Gaza referred to “power plants” America photo shoot. It has emerged that misspelled the surname of an aide to Prime discrimination is seen at swimming pools in being hit by Israeli air strikes. There is only the photograph was stolen, not “leaked”, Minister Haider al-Abadi and mistranslated some private residential estates. one major diesel-powered plant in Gaza, and has in fact been subsequently manipu- comments he made about American forces’ which Israel denied targeting (Shattered lated: it is therefore not a ‘real’, unaltered readiness to move against the militants in The “yes” and “no” responses were mistak- lives, 26 February, page 10). photo from the shoot as reported. Mosul. The aide is Ali al-Alaaq, not Alaa, enly reversed in Wednesday’s poll; 31 percent and he said, “If the Americans continue pro- of voters agreed with Police Commissioner An article on Feb. 23 about Turkey’s military An article on Page 48 this weekend about crastinating about the time it will take to Anthony Batts that Baltimore is stuck in the operations in Syria to recover the remains of the first slavery museum in the United liberate the country, Iraq will liberate Mosul 1950s and ‘60s in terms of racism, while 67 a major historical figure and to evacuate the States misidentifies the source of the phrase and Anbar without them.” He did not say percent disagreed. guards at his tomb, which was threatened by “all men are created equal.” It is from the that the Americans, in fact, continue to the Islamic State, misidentified the Kurdish Declaration of Independence, not from the procrastinate. An article on Wednesday about Andrew fighters who have helped battle the militants Constitution. Lack‘s expected return to NBC misstated, but who Turkey argues are an extension of An article on Thursday about virtual-reality in some editions, the occasion for a party the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, an outlawed A subheading on Feb. 8 with a review of companies’ efforts to resolve motion sick- at which Brian Williams called Mr. Lack separatist group. They are Syrian Kurds – “Mourning Lincoln,” by Martha Hodes, ness problems before putting products on the best boss for whom he had ever worked. not the pesh merga, who are the military and “Lincoln’s Body,” by Richard Wightman the shelf misstated Google’s role in a funding The party was for Mr. Williams‘s 10th anni- forces of Iraqi Kurdistan. Fox, misidentified the man who asked a for- round for Magic Leap, a company develo- versary as anchor of ‚‘NBC Nightly News,‘‘ mer slave grieving over Lincoln’s death why ping an augmented reality headset. It was not his 10th anniversary at NBC. (He joined A picture of a stolen Picasso painting, “La she wept and who was said to have received the lead investor, not the only one. the network in 1993.) Coiffeuse,” on Friday with an article about the reply, “We have lost our Moses.” As its discovery in Newark was printed upside noted in the review itself, he was a Baptist The Economic Scene column on Wednesday, March 4, 2015 Wednesday down, in some editions, erroneously showing minister (his name was Leonard A. Grimes) about retirement savings and investment A reporting credit with an article on Friday the lighter colors at the top. The correctly – not Frederick Douglass, who had heard advice, misstated, in some editions, the fidu- about a debate over whether British intelli- displayed image can be found at nytimes. the story and liked to recount it. ciary responsibility of Individual Retirement gence services were at fault for the radicali- com/nyregion. The article also misstated the Account managers. While many I.R.A. zation of Mohammed Emwazi, the Islamic day on which Loretta E. Lynch, the United An opinion essay last Sunday about the managers are brokers, with no responsibi- State militant raised in West London who is States attorney for the Eastern District of Senate Intelligence Committee’s torture lity to act in investors’ best interest, some are known as Jihadi John, misstated the location New York, filed a civil complaint to forfeit report misstated one finding by the C.I.A. registered investment advisers, who must of one contributor, Eric Schmitt. He con- the painting and return it to France. It was The agency said that 75 percent of the infor- assume that responsibility. (Some R.I.A.s, tributed from Ndjamena, Chad – not from Thursday, not Wednesday. mation that the F.B.I. used to understand however, are affiliated with brokers and may Washington. the role of Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri, who or may not be acting in investors’ best inte- When an American flag was raised by pleaded guilty to researching explosives rests, a practice known as “dual hatting.”) A sentence in “Private sector in defence Marines on Iwo Jima in 1945, Lt. Col. for a potential terrorist attack, came from resurgence“ (March 3, Editorial page) said: Chandler Johnson had it replaced by a larger the interrogation of the 9/11 mastermind A headline in Thursday’s editions incorrectly “We need a common framework for defence flag. A story on Feb. 23 about the famous Khalid Shaikh Mohammed – not that 75 described the condition of Frank Poline, who procurement across … ordinance factories photo of that second flag-raising named the percent of the information that led to Mr. was shot Monday during an encounter with … and the private sector.” It should have wrong person. Marri’s capture came from Mr. Mohammed. Baltimore County police. He is hospitalized. been ordnance factories. (Mr. Marri was arrested in the United March 2, 2015 Monday States in 2001, more than a year before Mr. March 5, 2015 Thursday An article on Saturday about negative inte- An Opinion piece about a radio interview in Mohammed was captured in Pakistan in A March 4 A-section article about federal rest rates in Europe misstated the effect which the leader of the Green party, Natalie 2003, and was declared an enemy comba- officials’ use of private e-mail accounts for on European bond prices as a result of Bennett, had trouble explaining her party’s tant after Mr. Mohammed’s interrogation.) government business incorrectly described the European Central Bank’s decision to housing policy said that in the final spend- the Chemical Safety Board, which inves- purchase hundreds of billions of euros’ ing period of the Labour government, £96bn An article on Feb. 8 about United States tigates chemical accidents, as part of the worth of bonds. Prices rose sharply; they did was allocated to housing benefit and £5bn to immigration policy described incorrectly Environmental Protection Agency. The not plunge. (Yields, which move inversely to building new homes. Those figures are for an announcement by President Obama board is independent. bond prices, did plunge.) the coalition government’s current spending last November. The announcement was an 9 executive action, which is typically nonbind- An article on Wednesday about possible Because Algeria was legally part of France and New York Philharmonic and the Silk Road ing, not an executive order, which is usually links between Aqsa Mahmood, a young not technically a colony, they were not “colonial Ensemble at Avery Fisher Hall, in a program binding. Additionally, the action prevented British woman living in Syria who is believed authorities.” that included Osvaldo Golijov’s “Rose of the the deportation of undocumented parents of to be a top recruiter of other women to join Winds,” which incorporates field recordings American citizens and legal permanent resi- the Islamic State, and the disappearance of February 25, 2015 Wednesday of a Mexican service honoring the Virgin dents who have been in the country for at three teenagers from London last week mis- In our graphic of the Baltic states (“Ethnic Mary, misspelled the name of what is now least five years, not the parents of undocu- stated, at one point, part of the name of the breakdown”, Feb 20) we transposed the a suburb of Mexico City that was the site mented children covered by the Deferred national airline of Turkey, whose flight the flags of, and the pointers for, Latvia and of an apparition of the Virgin. The service Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) girls took to Istanbul before making their Lithuania. We apologise for the error. honored the Holy Virgin of Guadalupe, not program. way to Syria, according to the authorities. As Guadeloupe. And the article gave an outdated job title correctly noted elsewhere in the article, it is The Met Office has asked us to clarify that it for Esther Olavarria of the Department of Turkish Airlines, not Turkish Airways. is working with the trade union Prospect to February 23, 2015 Monday Homeland Security. Olavarria is currently ensure that the threat of industrial action is A Feb. 22 correction to a graphic with an the senior counselor for immigration issues An article on Tuesday about reports by Al mitigated for any service where safety of life article about the conflict in Ukraine incor- for the D.H.S., not the department’s deputy Jazeera and The Guardian that the Israeli is at risk (“Met Office to strike: disruption rectly described the Tochka-U weapons sys- assistant secretary for policy. (She stepped intelligence agency Mossad disagreed with forecast”, Feb 24). tem. It is a tactical missile system. down from the deputy position in 2010.) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu The article described incorrectly wrongdoing about Iran’s ability to build a nuclear bomb A picture credit on Tuesday with an article A story Thursday about the high-tech sec- by the Corrections Corporation of America, paraphrased incorrectly from a speech by about plans by President Obama to tighten tor in Nazareth, Israel, provided the incor- which is opening a facility for undocumented Mr. Netanyahu to the United Nations in regulations on investment professionals who rect percent for the Arab population in families. C.C.A. admitted that employees at September 2012. In discussing Iran’s ura- handle retirement savings accounts misiden- Israel. Arabs make up about 21% of the one of its facilities in Idaho falsified business nium enrichment program, he said Iran tified the photographer. The picture, of the population. records but did not admit that the company would have completed the second stage of president and Senator Elizabeth Warren at had committed fraud. enrichment – not the final stage – by spring an AARP event, was taken by Doug Mills February 22, 2015 Sunday or summer of 2013. of The New York Times, not by Eric Gay of An article on Feb. 15 about the assassina- An article about a cache of hundreds of dos- The Associated Press. tion of Rafik Hariri, the former prime min- siers, files and cables from the world’s major An article on Saturday about the Obama ister of Lebanon, misstated the death toll intelligence services that were leaked to the administration’s proposal to create one An article on Tuesday about Greece’s delay in in an Israeli drone strike in Syria. All seven al-Jazeera investigative unit and shared with agency to oversee food standards included submitting proposals for economic reform men, an Iranian general and six members of the Guardian (Secret cables reveal Israel’s outdated numbers for Americans who are to its creditors gave an incorrect conversion Hezbollah, were killed, not six of the seven. spies at odds with Netanyahu on Iran, 24 affected by contaminated food. Each year, in dollars, in some copies, of the revenue February, page 1) referred to the earlier leak an estimated 48 million Americans are sicke- expected from a proposed payment plan for A Feb. 16 Page One article about the of tens of thousands of NSA and GCHQ ned by contaminated food, not 87 million; tax debtors. It is $3.4 billion, not million. Environmental Protection Agency’s expected documents by the US whistleblower Edward 128,000 are hospitalized with food-related use of a preemptive “veto” to block work on Snowden as “the Snowden trove”. That upset illness, not 371,000; and 3,000 die from An Opinion article about the release of the a proposed gold mine in Alaska misstated some linguistic purists who – like our style food-related disease, not 5,700. Households Below Average Income (HBAI) the job title of an EPA official who commu- guide – insist that “trove” should only be data noted that it would not be published nicated with activists fighting the mine. The used as part of the noun phrase “treasure An article on Tuesday about the annual earn- until after the election and stated that official was a field biologist, not an attorney. trove”, and that there is no such thing as a ings report of the British bank HSBC mis- “the publication of HBAI is increasingly “trove”. But perhaps we should now accept stated some portions of the 2014 remuner- being delayed”. In fact the HBAI has been A review on Jan. 11 about “All Eyes Are that it’s a useful word on its own. ation package of its chief executive, Stuart published in May, June or July since 2009 Upon Us: Race and Politics From Boston Gulliver. Mr. Gulliver received a pension and will be published in May or June this to Brooklyn,” by Jason Sokol, misstated the February 28, 2015 Saturday contribution of £625,000, not £625 mil- year in line with the Code of Practice for given name of a baseball player who, despite Contrary to our report and headline “Isis lion, and additional benefits of £642,000, Official Statistics (18 February, page 39). his historic professional breakthrough, was smashes artefacts, but real ones are safe in not £642 million. unwelcome as a homeowner in Northeastern WC1” (World, Feb 27), none of the objects A report about the conservation of HMS suburbs during his career. He was Jack featured in the video of Isis militants smash- February 26, 2015 Thursday M33 referred to “the hi-tech might of the Roosevelt Robinson (known as Jackie), not ing up a museum in Mosul are copies of Last Thursday’s feature about the resurgence Royal Navy’s modern battleships”. That James. originals held at the British Museum. We of measles was accompanied by two graphs should have been warships. A battleship was apologise for the error. which, because of a missing axis label, may a warship of the largest and heaviest type, A review on Feb. 8 about “Founders’ Son: have given the erroneous impression that the built chiefly in the late 19th and early 20th A Life of Abraham Lincoln,” by Richard An article on Friday about the Senate disease is more prevalent in the United centuries, with large-calibre guns (Gallipoli’s Brookhiser, referred incorrectly to the book’s Judiciary Committee’s vote to send the nom- States now than in the 1920s. Measles has last survivor: humble WW1 gunboat emer- treatment of the succession of Union gen- ination of Loretta Lynch as the next attorney made a comeback there in recent years since ges from long obscurity, 20 February, page erals who suffered mostly defeats in the general to the full Senate misstated, in some being declared eliminated in 2000 – but, at 15). Civil War battles of the Seven Days, Second editions, the actions that Senator Roy Blunt, present, total cases per year remain in the Bull Run, Antietam, Fredericksburg and Republican of Missouri, said he would hundreds. The corrected graphic can be seen To illustrate a statement that successive gov- Chancellorsville . It briefly discusses those take because of President Obama’s execu- in full at: ind.pn/17SuUC8 ernments have failed to create incentives to generals; they are not “left unnamed.” tive actions on immigration. Mr. Blunt said eradicate a culture of welfare dependency, that he would reject Mr. Obama’s nominees We said in a leading article (“True Pollocks”, an article of Feb10 said that ‘nearly 3 mil- A subheading last Sunday with an Associated for defense secretary and attorney general, Feb 20) that Sotheby’s had “wrongly lion’ people are still on the main out-ofwork Press article about legislation in Washington not that he would reject all of Mr. Obama’s advised” the owners of a painting “that their benefits and ‘most’ have been on them for State to ease the way for its utilities to end nominees. Caravaggio was not a Caravaggio”. This was more than five years. The actual figures are coal-fired electricity described incorrectly incorrect. A court case last year rejected the in fact 4 million and 40 per cent (1.6m) the location of Montana, whose economy February 27, 2015 Friday arguments for attribution of the painting to respectively. We have been asked to clarify could be affected by the bills. It is separated A Feb. 26 A-section article about Cuba seek- Caravaggio and found that Sotheby’s had in that most of those claiming for more than from Washington by Idaho; it is not a neigh- ing to be removed from the U.S. list of ter- no way been negligent. We apologise for our five years have been classified as incapable boring state to Washington. rorism-sponsoring nations said that Spain error. of work. Department of Work and Pensions long ago stopped seeking the return of all the figures show, however, that there are three An article last Sunday about the decline members of the ETA Basque militant group An article on Feb. 5 about executive desktop quarters of a million people not so classi- of delta smelts in Northern California riv- who had found haven in Cuba. In fact, it toys misspelled the German expression for fied who have been claiming three of the ers misstated the extent of pumping mea- has reached an agreement with the Cuban “executive toy.” It is “managerspielzeug,” not four main out-of-work benefits for at least sures taken to protect smelt. Pumping is government allowing some of the wanted “managerspielzung. 12 months. sometimes reduced by shutting some of the militants to stay. An article on Tuesday about laws passed by pumps; all of the pumps are not typically states to limit the regulatory authority of February 24, 2015 Tuesday shut at the same time. A Feb. 25 Metro article about a protest out- cities misstated the year in which Democrats Because of an editing error, we wrongly att- side the White House over the massacre of in California blocked cities from requiring tributed to Binyamin Netanyahu a statement An article last Sunday about the value of vol- Coptic Christians by Islamic State militants restaurants to label menus with nutritional that “Iran is closer than ever to a nuclear untary climate treaties misstated the stance in Libya incorrectly described the Yazidi information. It was 2008, not 2010. (The bomb” and that “relations with the US, a of the United States, China and India on the community of northern Iraq as a Christian law was subsequently amended in 2010.) cornerstone of Israel’s national security, have Kyoto Protocol. China and India were par- sect. Yazidis practice a monotheistic religion taken a heavy blow”. These views were in ties to the treaty; the United States signed influenced by many faith traditions, inclu- A theater review on Feb. 18 about fact expressed by Amos Yadlin, the Zionist the treaty but never ratified it. It is not the ding Christianity, but the core beliefs stem “Hamilton,” at the Public Theater, referred Union’s candidate for defence minister. case that all three refused to join the agree- from a mixture of ancient Zoroastrian and imprecisely to Alexander Hamilton’s arrival ment. (For China and India, the treaty was Mesopotamian religions. in New York as a teenager. While he was An article last Tuesday about holdout resi- largely symbolic; they were not required to born on the island of Nevis, he came to New dents and businesses leaving the former make any emissions cuts because they were A Feb. 22 Page One article about the rebrand- York from St. Croix, not from Nevis. Atlantic Yards site misspelled the name of designated “Non-Annex I” or “developing” ing of Hillary Rodham Clinton misidenti- the concentration camp where Louis Piller, nations.) fied the creator of the “3 a.m. phone call” An article on Tuesday about the identity and the deceased founder of Atlantic Wool, one TV ad from her 2008 campaign. Although homeland of people who spoke proto-Indo- of the departing companies, was held during February 21, 2015 Saturday Roy Spence had been among those publicly European, a precursor to many languages, the Holocaust. It was Plaszow, not Paszów. An article on Wednesday about a White credited with the ad, it was in fact created by including English, misstated the surname House summit meeting on violent extrem- Mark Penn and Mandy Grunwald. of a linguist in two references. As the article An article on Saturday about long-term care ism paraphrased incorrectly from com- correctly noted elsewhere, he is Will Chang, insurance misstated the maximum length of ments by the mayor of the Belgium town of An In the Loop item in the Feb. 26 A-section not Chance. time an insured person may be required to Vilvoorde, where the Islamic State has been incorrectly said that President Obama beat pay for care out of pocket before the policy heavily recruiting. He said Vilvoorde has Republican nominee Mitt Romney by 75 An obituary on Feb. 14 about the Algerian- begins paying. In most states, that period – 42,000 people, not 4,200. percent to 23 percent in Puerto Rico in born writer and filmmaker Assia Djebar the so-called elimination period – cannot be 2012. Those numbers were from opinion referred imprecisely to the authorities who longer than one year, not three months. An article last Saturday about expressions polls. Residents of Puerto Rico do not vote in forbade teaching in Arabic in Algerian of concern by Prime Minister Narendra presidential elections. schools when her father was a teacher. A music review on Saturday about the Modi of India about crimes against Catholic 10 churches in New Delhi misstated the num- cent of trust respondents and 25% of pri- (Puppy Love)” to the Norman Rockwell has agreed a sale of its European arm to ber of recent cases that the police commis- mary care respondents who had raised a con- Museum in Stockbridge, Mass., misstated AlixPartners, is owned by Better Capital. It sioner said had been resolved. Three out of cern said that they felt unsafe afterwards. Of the anniversary of Rockwell’s birth that was is in fact independent. five have been resolved, not four out of five. those who had not raised a concern, 15% of honored by a Google Doodle in 2010 that trust respondents and 10% of primary care used the painting. It was the 116th, not the An article on Thursday about fears that In Friday’s paper, the caption with a 1946 respondents blamed fear of victimisation (17 106th. Indonesia’s popular anticorruption cam- photo accompanying a story about the February, page 31). paign has ensnared the innocent with ques- Moore’s Ford Bridge lynching was incor- The Inside Art column on Friday, about auc- tionable prosecutions misstated the number rect. The photograph showed mourners at An article about a report into artillery tions in London, misidentified the seller of of American companies that took a $1 mil- the burial of World War II veteran George attacks on Ukrainian armed forces near the Gerhard Richter painting “599,” which lion security deposit to lease two planes to Dorsey and his sister, Dorothy Malcom, at the Russian-Ukrainian border in July and sold for about $46.4 million, including fees, an Indonesian state airline but never deliv- the Mount Perry Baptist Church cemetery August last year should have made clear that the highest price paid at auction for a work ered them, which led to the prosecution of in Bishop. one of the writers, Eliot Higgins, is the foun- by Mr. Richter. He is the Malaysian finan- the head of the airline. Only one American der of the Bellingcat investigative journa- cier Jho Low, not the Hong Kong real estate company was involved, not more than one. Our report of 6 February entitled ‘Another lism network that produced the report and magnate Joseph Lau. The article also referred imprecisely to the twist in controversial tenure as top Scots was its lead author (Ukrainian troops may prison sentences imposed in the United policeman’ stated that “the (firearms) stand- have been bombarded from inside Russia, An article on Monday about congressional States on two executives from the American ing authority (in Police Scotland) was 18 February, page 16). efforts to tie approval of any trade accords company. They followed guilty pleas to rescinded in October”. We have been asked to a strong attack on international currency criminal charges of tax evasion; a ruling that to point out that the standing authority has An article on Nov. 12 about automated manipulations misattributed an estimate the executives had failed to honor their com- not been rescinded but the Police Scotland weapons paraphrased incorrectly from com- that such currency interventions had cost mitments was a separate civil case and did patrol model has been varied so that armed ments by Paul Scharre, a weapons specia- the United States as many as five million jobs not result in prison time. officers will only attend life threatening or list now at the Center for a New American over the last decade. That figure came from firearms incidents, or deal with crimes and Security. His position is that smarter wea- a study conducted by Joseph E. Gagnon, An article in the Feb. 14 Business section offences which they come across during their pons, which are more accurate, should be a scholar at the Peterson Institute, and C. about Mattel’s announcement of a new tour of duty. embraced because they may result in fewer Fred Bergsten, now its director emeritus, View-Master viewer to be made in collabo- mass killings and civilian casualties. He does not from the institute itself, which does not ration with Google described the original, February 20, 2015 Friday not think that autonomous weapons, which endorse studies conducted under its aegis. introduced in 1939, as Mattel’s attempt at An article on Tuesday about the violent make targeting and killing decisions without a binocular 3-D virtual reality headset. The background of Omar Abdel Hamid el-Hus- human guidance, should be embraced for that An art review on Friday about “From original version was created by Sawyer’s; sein, the suspect in the recent terrorist shoot- reason. Ancient to Modern: Archaeology and through a merger View-Master became part ings in Copenhagen, misspelled the name of Aesthetics,” at the Institute for the Study of of Mattel in 1997 the Danish town where he attended a voca- An article on Feb. 2 about the elimination the Ancient World in Manhattan, omitted tional school. It is Hvidovre, not Hvidore. of mandatory dues by some synagogues mis- one of the two archaeological expeditions A picture last Tuesday with an article And because of an editing error, the article stated the number of years Congregation in what was once Mesopotamia on which about the killing of an Afghan militant quoted incorrectly from a sign that friends of Emanu-El in San Francisco used a volun- the exhibition focuses. In addition to C. accused of recruiting for the Islamic State Mr. Hussein placed near the spot where he tary-dues system and referred incorrectly to Leonard Woolley’s, the exhibition also exam- was published in error, using information was killed by the police. It said: “May Allah how it fared with that system. The voluntary ines Henri Frankfort’s. from the National Directorate of Security, show mercy. Rest in peace, Captian” – not dues experiment there lasted 13 years, it was Afghanistan’s spy agency. It was not in fact a “Captain.” (Captian is a gangland title of not “short-lived.” And although dues rose A pull-quote accompanying a Saturday inter- picture of Mullah Abdul Rauf Khadim, the respect.) after the mandatory system was restored, it view with the Greek finance minister, Yanis militant who was killed. Instead, it errone- is not clear whether dues had fallen when the Varoufakis, said that Greece was due to ously showed Shawali Khan, an Afghan man An article last Friday about the International voluntary system was first put into place. repay (EURO)25bn to its debtors this who was not connected to the recruiting. Monetary Fund’s approval of a new $17.5 year. To its creditors, that should have been billion bailout package for Ukraine, which An article on Monday about alternative wire- (14 February, page 25). February 16, 2015 Monday is teetering on the edge of default, refer- less networks that primarily use Wi-Fi tech- An editing error resulted in a comment red imprecisely to the circumstances under nology described the technology’s regulatory A long-read article about Manchester (The being misattributed in a case study of a which Russia can demand to renegotiate status incorrectly. While Wi-Fi transmissi- deal, 12 February, page 29) gave the name woman who claimed some benefits while the terms of a $3 billion loan provided to ons are unlicensed, they are not unregulated. of its old Jewish quarter as Cheetham’s. working (14 February, page 13). She did not Ukraine in 2013. It can do so if Ukraine’s Federal rules do set some parameters. Cheetham Hill, that should have been. Also, say of tax evasion: “It’s a risk worth taking – overall debt – not just its external debt, Manchester town hall was completed in the worst that can happen to you if HMRC which is the amount owed to foreign credi- Paul Krugman’s column on Feb. 9 incor- 1877, not 1867 as we suggested, and buses can be bothered to catch up with you is tors – exceeds 60 percent of its gross dome- rectly described bookmakers’ odds that in the city were deregulated in 1986; we said that you may have to pay, you won’t have stic product. Greece will exit the eurozone. The odds were that had happened “recently”. a prosecution, you won’t have any shame, worse than even, not better than even. you won’t be an example to anybody else, An article on Jan. 24 about a settlement An article of Feb 11, “Britain is shamed by its you’ll get away with it.” That comment was in which the company Let’s Buy British A headline for a news brief in Wednesday’s impotence over Syria and Ukraine”, quoted made by the chair of the public accounts Imports agreed to stop importing Cadbury’s news section was incorrect about a Michigan Philip Hammond, the Foreign Secretary, committee, Margaret Hodge. In addition chocolate omitted one use of PGPR, an suspect charged with stabbing two people. comparing Russian President Vladimir the article said figures from the Department emulsifier. Besides being used in American The man allegedly targeted people who were Putin to Hitler. Mr Hammond in fact said for Work and Pensions suggested that the Cadbury chocolate bars, it is also present in not Muslims. that Mr Putin was behaving “like some mid- total amount lost to fraud in 2011-12 was British Cadbury chocolates under the name twentieth century tyrant”. about £2bn. To clarify: the DWP estimate E476. February 18, 2015 Wednesday was £1.2bn. Revenue and Customs, which An article on Saturday about a novel by the February 17, 2015 Tuesday pays out child and working tax credits and An article on Monday about a reunion of writer Ernst Haffner that was burned by A Feb. 15 Page One article about the career child benefit, identified another £870m in activists who had tried to prevent the razing Nazi students, “Jugend auf der Landstrasse of suspended NBC News anchor Brian the same period. of the Esperanza Community Garden on the Berlin” (“Youth on the Road to Berlin”), Williams misstated the number of appear- Lower East Side in 2000 misstated when a misstated its publication date in the United ances Williams made on entertainment As our style guide points out, the SNP is former protester, Aresh Javadi, helped found States, where it will be released under the programs such as “Late Show With David the Scottish National party, not “Scottish the advocacy group More Gardens. It was title “Blood Brothers.” It is March 3; it has Letterman,” “The Tonight Show,” “Ellen” Nationalist party” as we had it in an editorial before Esperanza’s destruction, not after. not “just been published.” and “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart” (The emerging shape of a multiparty lands- between 2006 and 2011. Williams made cape shows how high the stakes are in the An Op-Ed article on Monday referred A Feb. 15 Page One article about a failed about 80 appearances on those programs election, 13 February, page 38). imprecisely to Martha Washington’s hand- hostage-rescue mission in Syria misstated and other entertainment shows during that ling of George Washington’s slaves after his the date the U.S. force landed there. It was period, according to the Internet Movie February 15, 2015 Sunday death in 1799. While she did not emancipate the early morning of July 3, not July 4. Database, not 146. A Post analysis over- An article about potential conflicts of inter- her own slaves, as the essay noted, in 1801 she counted the entertainment shows, and the est for public health scientists who have links freed all of his slaves, as he had requested. A Feb. 15 A-section article about a gunman’s larger total also included appearances on to the sugar industry erred in saying that the attack on a Copenhagen cafe during a forum “Today,” “Hardball With Chris Matthews,” Cambridge professor Stephen O’Rahilly February 19, 2015 Thursday on free speech misstated the age of the man “Dateline,” “The Rachel Maddow Show” “drew a distinction between independent Michelle Singletary’s Color of Money killed in the attack, based on initial informa- and “Meet the Press,” according to IMDb. scientists who received no-strings funding column in the Dec. 28 Business section tion from Danish police. The victim, later Those shows are produced by NBC’s news for research that they would publish whether transposed the words “own” and “owe” in a identified as filmmaker Finn Noergaard, was divisions. or not the outcome was favourable to the definition of net worth. Net worth is what 55, not 40. company, and scientists who had a role with you own minus what you owe. We stated that Stuart Wheeler criticised the government”. What he actually said was A Feb. 11 Metro article about the final day David Cameron in 2009 “for signing the that academic scientists could legitimately We ascribed to Preston town council a belief for each chamber in the Virginia legislature Lisbon treaty” (“The rise of Ukip”, tablet collaborate with industry as long as they had that growing antisemitism was “all Israel’s to act on its own legislation incorrectly said edition). The Lisbon treaty was signed on complete freedom to interpret and write up fault” (News, Feb 18). The council leader, that there was no bill in the Senate to allow behalf of the UK by Gordon Brown and results. As the article went on to say, in a Mr Peter Rankin, has asked us to clarify that breast-feeding in public. In fact, the Senate David Miliband. quote from O’Rahilly, he believes that the he specifically blamed “the actions of the unanimously passed such a bill. “direct involvement of the food industry in IDF [Israeli defence forces]”. We reported a remark by Professor Lesley bodies concerned with government policy is A Jan. 28 A-section article about iPhone Glover, the former chief scientific adviser to a separate issue and should be debated sepa- A Comment piece referring to the Francis sales surpassing expectations in Apple’s holi- the European Commission, that Greenpeace rately” (12 February, page 7). review into whistleblowing in the NHS was day quarter incorrectly said that the com- “repeatedly refused invitations” to discuss wrong to say that more than 19,000 NHS pany has four retail stores in China. It had GM crops (News, Feb 4). Greenpeace have An article last Sunday about efforts to estab- staff gave evidence that speaking out about 17 there as of this month. asked us to clarify that they attended several lish a financial institution specifically to poor care was a career-threatening risk. meetings with Professor Glover. serve the pot industry in Colorado misstated More than 19,500 NHS staff responded to A report in the “Arts, Briefly” column on when recreational use of marijuana became the review’s survey, about 15,000 from trusts Friday about a gift of the Norman Rockwell We reported (Business, Feb 16) that Zolfo legal in the state. It was in December 2012, and 4,500 from primary care. Thirty per painting “Boy and Girl Gazing at the Moon Cooper, a restructuring specialist that when the governor signed an executive order 11 declaring a voter-approved amendment nel in charge of protecting the embassy have organization whose chairwoman, Julie ers over Tory plans to cut welfare costs by legalizing marijuana part of the state consti- all been moved out of the country. Fergerson, offered advice. It is the Identity £12bn”. Blunkett is not a frontbencher; nor tution, not “a year ago.” Theft Resource Center, not Identity Theft were the other speeches necessarily directly A Feb. 11 A-section article about President Resource. about planned cuts (Blunkett calls for more The cover article last Sunday about a journey Obama’s request for congressional autho- self-help and less state aid, 4 February, page across Morocco translated incorrectly the rization to use military force against the We reported that David Blunkett had sug- 11). Arabic word “miyya” in quoting a salesman Islamic State incorrectly said that it would gested a “death tax” to help pay for social about the number of dirhams he was asking be the first time he had sought a use-of- care (News, Feb 6). His proposal was in A Feb. 6 Metro article about a plan by for a goat. “Miyya dirham!” means 100 dir- force authorization. In September 2013, he fact for an equity-release scheme for elderly Republicans in Virginia’s House of Delegates hams, not 1,000. requested authority to take action against homeowners, not a levy on their estates after to expand mental-health care and health ser- the government of Syria to destroy its che- death. vices for the poor incorrectly said that it A picture credit last Sunday with an article mical weapons capability. That bill died in would extend food stamps to the children about the higher profile that Anne Hidalgo, Congress, and the requested action was not An article on Saturday about an announce- of low-income state employees. Rather, it the mayor of Paris, has enjoyed since the ter- taken. ment by the Islamic State terrorist group would extend health care, under the Family rorist attacks in her city last month misiden- that an American hostage, Kayla Mueller, Access Medical Insurance Security program, tified the organization for which the pho- An article on Jan. 21 about the American had been killed by a Jordanian airstrike in to such children. tographer, Ed Alcock, was on assignment. government’s main outpost in Cuba, now set northern Syria misstated the role of Carlos It is The New York Times, not M.Y.O.P., a to become a full-fledged embassy for the first Francisco Cabello in Doctors Without A picture caption last Sunday for an article French photo agency. time in five decades, misstated the year that Borders, whose compound in Aleppo, Syria, in the Travel section about a trip to Ghana the building began to be used as an “interests Ms. Mueller had stayed at before she was by a group of Americans with a common An article in Saturday’s editions of The section.” It was 1977, not 1997. taken hostage. Mr. Cabello is the head of the ancestral link misstated their relation to a Baltimore Sun incorrectly described the Syria mission of Doctors Without Borders’ West African man who was a slave but even- funding source for some childless adults An article last Thursday about a percep- Spanish section, not the head of the Spanish tually bought his freedom. The Americans, added to Medicaid under the Affordable tion by Aleksei A. Navalny, the Russian section. including the boy shown, are the man’s Care Act. It is the federal government. opposition activist, that Russia’s recent eco- descendants, not his ancestors. nomic troubles may have made President An article on Saturday about a management An article last Sunday about the New York Vladimir V. Putin’s administration vulne- shake-up at Brazil’s scandal-ridden petro- The Fair Game column last Sunday, about City schools chancellor, Carmen Fariña, rable misidentified the field of law that Mr. leum giant, Petrobras, misstated the sur- a Missouri judge’s decision in a wrongful and the changes she has made misstated the Navalny practiced before becoming an anti- name of a petroleum analyst with the invest- foreclosure case involving Freddie Mac and racial makeup of the schools’ gifted and tal- corruption campaigner. He was in corpo- ment consultancy Lopes Filho, who com- Wells Fargo, misidentified, in some editions, ented programs. They are largely white and rate law, not real estate law. The same error mented on the move. She is Cassia Pontes, which of the two the judge ordered to pay Asian, not largely white. appeared in an article on April 17, 2013, not Portes. the borrowers almost $96,000. It was Wells about his defiance ahead of a trial on charges Fargo. February 14, 2015 Saturday of embezzlement. A formatting problem gave the wrong mean- Alan Turing was not “the inventor of the ing to a sentence about the big bang which A picture caption last Sunday with an article Enigma machine” (Saturday Review, Feb 7). A picture caption on Wednesday with a said: “At first the universe was inconceivably about the new sitcom “Fresh Off the Boat,” He played a major part in the cracking of television review of “Building Wonders,” a tiny but then approximately 10-37 seconds based on the memoir by the chef Eddie Enigma-enciphered messages. three-part “Nova” series on PBS, misidenti- into the expansion, something called cosmic Huang, misspelled the surname of an actress fied the structure shown in some editions. inflation led to exponential growth and the on the show. Her name is Constance Wu, An obituary in some editions on Thursday It is a modern carving using ancient tech- seeds of what we observe today.” The writer not Yu. about Christophe Gbenye, a radical nation- niques – not an ancient stone building in intended that to be 10 -37- a tiny fraction of alist whose rebel warriors seized control Petra, Jordan. one second (Is time, after all, real? Two mav- A correction in this space last Sunday for an of eastern Congo in 1964, misspelled the ericks take an axe to the established theories article on Jan. 25 about optimism among given name of a former prime minister of February 11, 2015 Wednesday of cosmology, 7 February, Review, page 9). American policy makers about the Houthis, the Democratic Republic of Congo. He is The Saturday Profile article on Jan. 31, former rebels who are now the dominant Antoine Gizenga, not Antione. about Prince Zeid Ra’ad Zeid al-Hussein, February 9, 2015 Monday force in Yemen, referred imprecisely to the the new United Nations commissioner for An article on Friday about efforts by attack on Charlie Hebdo, the satirical news- February 13, 2015 Friday human rights, referred incorrectly to the European and American leaders to forge a paper in Paris. Although Al Qaeda in Yemen Two articles about the death of King $265 million budget that he is trying to diplomatic solution to the escalating conflict claimed responsibility, and the two men Abdullah of Saudi Arabia said that there is increase. That amount, which represents 3 in eastern Ukraine misstated the day that the who led the attack said they were working speculation that his successor, Crown Prince percent of the overall United Nations bud- office of the Ukrainian president, Petro O. on behalf of the group, it has not been deter- Salman, is suffering from dementia or get, covers only the United Nations human Poroshenko, issued a statement on a meeting mined that Al Qaeda was behind the attack. Parkinson’s disease. In addition, the second rights office; it does not cover peacekeeping he had with Chancellor Angela Merkel of story, which appeared only online, said that activities as well. (The current peacekeeping Germany and the French president, François A chart on Page 20 this weekend with an arti- he was reported to have “had at least one budget alone is about $7 billion.) Hollande. It was Friday, not Wednesday. cle about gender identity at the University stroke”. Since publication, the royal court of Vermont renders four gender-neutral pro- of Saudi Arabia has asserted to the Guardian An article on Monday about a Hindu An article on Jan. 26 about the deaths of at nouns incorrectly. The pronouns are zirs and that King Salman is “Most certainly not suf- group’s demand that a boutique in New least 18 people in political violence in Egypt zirself, not zis and zieself (for his/hers and fering from dementia or any other kind of York City stop selling an edible version of misstated the age of Shaimaa al-Sabbagh, a himself/herself); sir, not sie (for him/her); mental impairment, nor has he suffered a the god Ganesh misstated part of the title woman who was fatally shot by the police on and eirself, not emself (for himself/herself). stroke” (23 January, page 3; 23 January, the- of a Buddhist text in some editions. It is “A Jan. 24 in Cairo. She was 31, not 32. guardian.com). Guide to the Bodhisattva Way of Life,” not February 7, 2015 Saturday “The Bodhisattva Way of Living.” In addi- An article on Tuesday about France’s chal- An article on Wednesday about a tour of An article on Thursday about NBC’s efforts tion, the article referred incorrectly to the lenge in maintaining its revolutionary ide- European capitals by the new Greek prime to contain the damage from admissions by age of the text. It was written in the eighth als with an increasingly multicultural society minister, Alexis Tsipras, and his finance min- its news anchor, Brian Williams, that he had century, not the ninth. in which Islam is taking a more prominent ister, Yanis Varoufakis, to seek political sup- exaggerated an account of a helicopter journey place referred incorrectly to the demograph- port for renegotiating the terms of Greece’s in Iraq misstated, in some copies, the middle In the Feb. 10 Section A, an article about ics of Clichy-sous-Bois, a heavily immigrant bailout misidentified the organization led by initial of NBCUniversal’s chief executive. He veterans hunting and shooting as therapy Paris suburb where many young people have Jean-Claude Juncker, whom Mr. Tsipras met is Stephen B. Burke, not Stephen P. said that Joe Washam, who went hunting little sense of national solidarity. According to in Brussels. Mr. Juncker is president of the with fellow veterans suffering post-trauma- the town’s website, half of its population is European Commission, not the European An article on Thursday about the trial of tic stress, saw one man’s hands shake as he under age 25, not 20. Union. (The commission is the executive Eddie Ray Routh in the deaths of Chris held his gun. Washam did not see the man body of the E.U.) Kyle, whose life is the basis of the movie holding a gun. An article on Friday about a study that “American Sniper,” and his friend Chad mapped DNA found in New York’s subway sys- An article on Wednesday about a lawsuit Littlefield misstated part of a text message An article on Tuesday about an alliance tem misstated the system’s ridership. It car- that seeks to legalize doctor-assisted sui- Mr. Littlefield sent to Mr. Kyle. Referring to between liberal Democrats and Tea Party ries 5.5 million riders on an average week- cide for terminally ill patients in New York Mr. Routh, Mr. Littlefield wrote, “He’s right Republicans on trade issues misidentified day, not during an average week. State misstated, in some copies, Kathleen M. behind me, watch my six” – not “I’m right the website of a conservative political group. Gallagher’s job title with the New York State behind you, watch my six.” It is TheTeaParty.net – not TeaParty.net, a In the Comment page article, For a newly Catholic Conference, an organization that personal website not connected to politics. imagined ‘historical temper’ (Feb.7), a sen- generally opposes such measures. She is the An article on Thursday about the repercus- tence got jumbled. What read as “Mahadeva director of pro-life activities, not the director sions to the Brazilian economy of a cor- An article on Friday about a vast smuggling Shankanapura calls for the building of “ima- of anti-abortion activities. ruption scandal involving the state-owned operation that transports Syrian refugees to ginative truths” out of the Manteswamy petroleum giant Petrobras misidentified Turkey, then on to Western Europe, mis- and Malemadeshwara performance tradi- The second paragraph of the Comment page a target of the continuing investigation. identified the nationality of the businessmen tions which are practices in contemporary article, “A mortar for bullet game“ (Feb. 6, Former executives of the drilling company who supply cargo ships to Abu Mohammed, Karnataka, as a way of dealing with the 2015), said the LoC was put in place by Sete Brasil are under scrutiny, not the com- one of the smugglers. They are Syrian, not paucity of sources and early 15th centu- the Simla Agreement of July 1972 repla- pany itself. Egyptian. ries whose brilliant discoveries of trigno- cing the ceasefire line created by the Karachi metry were for a Dalit past” should have Agreement of 1948. In a subsequent para- February 12, 2015 Thursday An article on Saturday about President been: “Mahadeva Shankanapura calls for the graph, the article talked about the 1949 A map of Ukraine that ran on the front page Obama’s new national security strategy mis- building of ‘imaginative truths’ out of the Karachi Agreement. The correct year is Tuesday failed to reflect that the Crimean stated the year that Peter D. Feaver helped Manteswamy and Malemadeshwara perfor- 1949. Peninsula is internationally recognized as draft President George W. Bush’s national mance traditions which are practices in con- Ukrainian territory that has been annexed security strategy. It was 2006, not 2002. temporary Karnataka, as a way of dealing February 6, 2015 Friday by Russia. with the paucity of sources for a Dalit past.” An editorial on Thursday about a legal case February 10, 2015 Tuesday against private contractors at Abu Ghraib A Feb. 11 Page One article about the closure An article on Friday about defending one- February 8, 2015 Sunday prison incorrectly identified one defendant. of the U.S. Embassy in Yemen incorrectly self against the misuse of personal informa- A report ended up saying that a speech by L-3 Services Inc. has settled claims against it said that the facility would remain guarded tion stolen by hackers misstated the name David Blunkett was “one of several speeches and is no longer a defendant in the current by U.S. military personnel. Military person- of a nonprofit educational and assistance by Labour and Conservative frontbench- lawsuit. 12 The Nato “spearhead” force of combat-ready to the authorities misstated the location of February 3, 2015 Tuesday several years to protect family members still troops will not be based in Poland, as we one murder. Sixteen were in Paris and one An article about newly released figures on in Syria; Aljoud is not his real family name. stated (News, Feb 5). The units making up was in a southern suburb; all 17 were not BP funding for Tate galleries stated that This correction was delayed to verify Mr. the force will stay in their home bases unless in Paris. government reductions to grant-in-aid had Abo Aljoud’s information. on exercises. resulted in a 35% cut between 2010 and An article on July 20 about global attention 2014. The Tate has asked us to point out An article in Saturday’s Belfast Telegraph A report in yesterday’s Belfast Telegraph to the civil war in Ukraine that followed that this amounts to “a real-terms cut of (Page 20-21, ‘The man who wants to lift the (Unholy row over Larne plan for plaque the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 more than 20% since 2009”, to account for lid off one of the darkest secrets in Ulster’) to mark 1711 witch trial, News, Page 19) over eastern Ukraine misidentified the plane inflation. The subheading in the online arti- referred to Roy Garland as being second in quoted Larne TUV councillor Jack McKee that President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia cle stated that the oil giant gave an average of command of Tara and a member of the UDR but was incorrectly accompanied by a photo- was aboard on the same day while return- £245,000 a year to the Tate. To be clear, this who raise concerns about the Kincora scan- graph of a different man, Pastor Jack McKee. ing from a trip to Latin America. It was his average is for the period 1990-2006 (Does dal. Mr Garland has asked us to clarify that Pastor McKee has asked us to clarify that he usual presidential plane, an Ilyushin 96, not Tate really need to take BP’s money?, 28 he left Tara in 1971, reported his concerns to has no connections with the TUV. a presidential Airbus referred to as Aircraft January, page 2). the police in 1973 and, when he later joined No. 1 by the Russian media. the UDR, he again spoke to military intel- In an article about the Labour peer Gulam A passage was omitted on Sunday from an ligence in 1975-6. Noon and the party’s prospects in the forth- We have been asked to clarify David article about Afghans who are turning to the coming general election (Millionaire donor Blunkett’s proposal on prescriptions for the Taliban’s system for justice because of their An article on Wednesday about a speech by urges Labour not to alienate business, 6 elderly (News, Feb 4): he said they should country’s failing court system. The passage President Obama on the last day of his state February, page 2), we said: “Despite his continue to remain free for long-term medi- at the continuation of the article should have visit to India in which he urged the nation to remarks, he [Noon] said he will still be vot- cation or for those on very low incomes but read, “But after the official end of the inter- do more to protect human rights and fight ing Labour and will encourage others to do that those who can afford to pay for one-off national military mission and more than a climate change misspelled the surname of an so.” That should have said “will still be sup- prescriptions should do so, whatever age billion dollars in development aid to build Indian author who criticized the speech. He porting Labour”: as a member of the House they are. up Afghanistan’s court system, it stands lar- is Chetan Bhagat, not Bhagwat. of Lords, Noon cannot vote in elections to gely discredited and ridiculed by everyday the House of Commons; peers can, however, In the Feb. 4 California section, an article Afghans.” A picture in some editions on Friday with vote in local and European elections. about “personal belief” exemptions from an article about earnings at ConocoPhillips vaccine requirements said that 30 states A Jan. 27 editorial said Arizona stopped and Occidental Petroleum was published in An article (Student loans: bean-counting allow exemptions based on religious beliefs. using midazolam in executions. It still has error. The photograph showed pumps near with Greg Clark, 5 February, page 3) about In fact, that exemption is available in 46 the option of using midazolam as part of a Long Beach, Calif., that are owned by the a comment by the universities minister states. three-drug protocol. California Resources Corporation, not by about the relative daily cost of student loan Occidental Petroleum. repayments and “cups of posh coffee” com- An article on Tuesday about the resigna- A picture caption on Saturday for an arti- pared the minister’s quoted figure of £2.22 tion of the chairman of a United Nations cle about a new immigration policy in the February 1, 2015 Sunday to calculations based on the pre-2012 Plan panel investigating possible war crimes in Bahamas that critics say unfairly targets An article last Sunday about the drawbacks 1 repayment scheme. Clark’s comment actu- the 50-day Gaza Strip conflict last summer Haitians misstated the effects of the policy of a strong dollar misstated the size of the ally referred to repayments under the post- misstated the volume of rockets fired by on the two boys shown, born in the Bahamas European Central Bank’s quantitative eas- 2012 Plan 2 scheme, under which repay- Palestinian militants into Israel during the but of Haitian descent. The boys have always ing campaign in United States dollars. It is ments are typically lower, and his maths was conflict. It was in the thousands, not the been considered Haitian; that is not among $1.16 trillion, not billion. correct. hundreds. the policy changes. (The new policy requires everyone to hold a passport, and as of next A profile of Yanis Varoufakis, Greece’s new The Horlivka Journal article on Tuesday, A Feb. 4 A-section article about an fall will also require all schoolchildren who finance minister (28 January, page 15), about the upbeat mood among pro-Russia Environmental Protection Agency letter to are not citizens to have a student residency included a quote in which he said: “Biblical rebels on the front lines in eastern Ukraine, a State Department special envoy, saying permit.) economics, an ‘eye for an eye’, leave every- misstated the location of Mariupol, where that low oil prices weaken the case for the body blind.” We should have made clear that rockets fired by the rebels struck a market, proposed Keystone XL pipeline, incorrectly An article on Saturday about an exhibit by he made this remark during an interview by killing 31 people. It is a coastal town on the described a type of crude oil used as a bench- the Missouri History Museum as a way to Johanna Jaufer of the Austrian broadcaster Sea of Azov, not on the Black Sea. mark for oil prices worldwide. Brent crude is remember the events surrounding the death ORF. from the North Sea, not from Texas. of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., referred An article on Saturday about the outbreak incorrectly to an exhibit in a state museum An article on Dec. 28 about two villages in of measles related to low vaccination rates A sentence in “India, China can realise in Louisiana designed to preserve the legacy Hampshire, England, where Jane Austen in some communities referred incorrectly ‘Asian Century’: Sushma“ (Feb. 1, 2015) of Hurricane Katrina. The exhibit opened spent most of her life misstated the side of to the position of the Amish on preventive said: “India has so far backed the BCIM about five years ago, not two years ago. Winchester Cathedral where her gravestone vaccines. While some Amish communi- proposal that would connect Kolkata with is located. It is in the north nave aisle, not ties object to vaccinations, “the Amish” as a Kunming – the capital of Yunnan province An obituary on Sunday about Reies Tijerina, the south nave. whole do not. – which is the gateway to … Myanmar, the leader of a Chicano property rights Laos and Thailand.” Actually, Yunnan’s third movement, misstated the name of the city The photo caption with an essay last Sunday An article on Wednesday about Zacarias neighbour is Vietnam and not Thailand. in Texas where he was born. It is Falls City, about the significance of Auschwitz con- Moussaoui, a former operative for Al Qaeda not Fall City. tained an incomplete description of the who testified that members of the Saudi February 4, 2015 Wednesday room shown. The room was part of a bar- royal family were donors to the terrorist An article on Tuesday about the national A caption accompanying a Feb. 1 Arts & racks, as the caption noted, but it was also organization in the 1990s, misstated the debate over childhood vaccinations and the Style review of the Piero di Cosimo exhibit at used as a gas chamber for disinfestation of title of King Salman of Saudi Arabia when challenge it poses for the Republican Party’s the National Gallery of Art misidentified an prisoners’ clothing. Mr. Moussaoui alleges he met with Salman 2016 presidential hopefuls omitted the con- object depicted in the foreground of Piero’s in Saudi Arabia before the Sept. 11 terrorist text for a comment Barack Obama made “Madonna and Child Enthroned With An article last Sunday about the release of attacks. Salman was a prince, he was not the about autism and other childhood disor- Saints Elizabeth of Hungary, Catherine of a video appearing to show the decapitated crown prince. (He became the crown prince ders during his 2008 presidential campaign. Alexandria, Peter, and John the Evangelist body of a Japanese man held hostage by the in 2012.) When he said, “Some people are suspicious With Angels.” It is not a tool; it is a frag- Islamic State terrorist group referred incor- that it’s connected to the vaccines, this per- ment of the breaking wheel associated with rectly in some editions to Al Furqan, which An article on Jan. 24 about a ceremony to son included,” he was pointing to a member St. Catherine’s martyrdom. has posted videos of the group’s beheadings be held at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State of the crowd; he was not referring to himself. in the past but did not confirm the latest Museum near Oswiecim, Poland, the fol- February 2, 2015 Monday apparent killing. It is a media arm of ISIS, lowing week marking the 70th anniversary An article on Tuesday about a study that Once again we have mistakenly described not a website. The article also misstated, in of the liberation of the Nazi camps at the found flaws in the system for reporting voltage in terms of current when we said some editions, the number of Americans end of World War II misstated the given serious side effects from pharmaceutical that Tasers “use an electric current of up whom ISIS has beheaded in recent months. name of an Auschwitz survivor who planned drugs misstated part of the name of the to 50,000 volts”. As one reader points out, It has killed three, not two. to attend the gathering. He is Michal nonprofit safety group that conducted the “electric current is measured in amperes, Salomonovic, not Milan. study. It is the Institute for Safe Medication electric potential (or electromotive force) A picture caption last Sunday with an arti- Practices, not the Institute for Safe Medicine in volts”, which is why a Taser can be said cle about the well-developed underground An article on Monday about what analysts Practices. The article also misspelled the to deliver a 50,000-volt shock (Police: arm jihadist pipeline in Belgium, which was see as the failure of the Islamic State’s strat- name of a hepatitis C treatment made by every officer with a Taser, 31 January, page highlighted by the recent thwarting of a egy in apparently killing two Japanese hos- Gilead Sciences. It is Sovaldi, not Solvadi. 1). terrorist operation, misidentified the area tages and threatening to kill a Jordanian of Brussels where two men were standing. one without achieving its professed goals The TV Watch column last Wednesday, An article on Thursday about the death of It is central Brussels – not the adjacent misspelled the surname of a British jour- about “The Americans,” the FX show about two Israeli soldiers in a missile attack by Molenbeek district, where nine homes were nalist who is one of only two Western hos- K.G.B. spies during the Reagan era, referred Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shiite movement, raided by the authorities. tages known to be still held by the militants. imprecisely to United States military aid to as they drove in a disputed area near the He is John Cantlie, not Cantile. The article Afghan groups fighting Communist rule at Lebanese border misstated the surname of An article last Sunday about optimism also misstated the surname of a member that time. While elements of what became one of the soldiers in some editions. He was among American policy makers about the of Jordan’s Parliament who said Jordanians the Taliban received weapons, the Taliban Sgt. Dor Chaim Nini, not Nimi. Houthis, former rebels who are now the were rallying behind the government. He itself was not yet organized and thus did not dominant force in Yemen, described incor- is Naif Laymoun, not al-Amoun. (ISIS has receive them. An article on Dec. 28 about the conse- rectly Charlie Hebdo, which was attacked since released a video showing the killing of quences of the United States’ refusal to this month in Paris by Al Qaeda in Yemen, the Jordanian pilot as well.) The Feb. 1 obituary of former German pay kidnappers to free American hostages the focus of counterterrorism operations president Richard von Weizsaecker incor- referred imprecisely to a Syrian journalist there that the United States insists will con- February 5, 2015 Thursday rectly reported that when he was mayor of who had been held by the Islamic State ter- tinue. Charlie Hebdo is a satirical newspa- A correction in this space on Jan. 17 for an West Berlin in the early 1980s, he was the rorist group and said American officials did per, not a magazine. article on Jan. 10 about questions concer- first political leader from West Germany to not pursue information he gave them about ning how the jihadists responsible for the conduct diplomatic negotiations with East Americans being held by the group. The sur- An article last Sunday about an apart- murders of 17 people in France were able to Germany. Diplomatic relations between the name of the journalist, Louai Abo Aljoud, is ment building in Brooklyn that still lacked execute brazen attacks despite being known two countries were established in the 1970s. an assumed one that he has been using for regular heat a year after residents sued the 13 landlord misstated, in some editions, the to a solar panel. It is a seismometer, not a An article last Wednesday about the diffi- Semitism worldwide, misstated the response surname of a lawyer with Make the Road seismograph. culties faced by Afghanistan’s new president, by Ron Prosor, Israel’s ambassador to the New York, an advocacy group whose causes Ashraf Ghani, in getting his cabinet nomi- United Nations, to a speech by Samantha include housing. He is Luis Henriquez, not A Jan. 29 A-section article about a Center nees approved paraphrased incorrectly from Power, his American counterpart, who said Hernandez. for American Progress report that calls for comments by Ahmad Nader Nadery, the the meeting was an important step for the new highway funding sources misstated the head of the Afghan Research and Evaluation General Assembly. Mr. Prosor did in fact January 31, 2015 Saturday United States’ population growth between Unit, a research institute in Kabul. He said applaud her speech; it is not the case that he A report in the World Briefing column on 1960 and 2012. The population grew from that the proposed new cabinet was in some failed to applaud. Wednesday about the World Food Program’s 180 million to 315 million – an increase of ways better than what the country had seen cutback of refugee aid in Uganda misidenti- 135 million, not 235 million. before – not that it was one of the best the An article on Saturday about what is likely fied the nationality of the refugees who are country had ever seen. to be the last large gathering of survivors of affected. A majority are from the Democratic An article on Wednesday about civics exams the Nazi concentration camps at Auschwitz Republic of Congo, not from South Sudan. given to high school students misidentified An article last Wednesday about using X-rays this week at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State the organization that conducted a survey last to read ancient scrolls recovered from a villa Museum near Oswiecim, Poland, to comme- An article on Tuesday about an announce- year in which many of the respondents could in Herculaneum referred incorrectly to the morate the 70th anniversary of the camps’ ment by Kurdish activists that their militias not answer basic questions about how their effects of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius on liberation at the end of World War II, refer- had retaken full control of Kobani, Syria, government functioned. It is the Annenberg Pompeii. Pompeii was engulfed by pyrocla- red incorrectly to a theater at the museum three months after Islamic State militants Public Policy Center at the University of stic flows and surges, which are mixes of hot site that will become an educational center. seized it referred incorrectly to a Kurdish Pennsylvania – not the Civics Renewal ash and gas; it was not engulfed in lava. It was used by Polish troops before the war, official who said the victory was the result Network, of which Annenberg is a member. not during it. The article also misidentified of improved coordination between Kurdish An article on Friday about Barbara Shaum, the hometown of Milan Salomonovic, a sur- fighters on the ground and the American-led January 29, 2015 Thursday who in 1970 became the first woman admit- vivor who plans to attend the ceremony. It is coalition that has been pounding ISIS posi- An article on Tuesday about suggestions of a ted to McSorley’s Old Ale House during Ostrava, in the Czech Republic, not Prague. tions in Kobani from the air. The official, shift in Saudi Arabian foreign policy with the business hours, misspelled in one instance Asia Abdullah, is a woman. elevation of Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, the given name of a neighboring shopkeeper A Jan. 2 Page One article about a legal dis- who takes a hard line on security matters, to who was the second woman allowed in. She pute between Erik Prince, founder of the An article on Jan. 22 about efforts by two second in line to the Saudi throne misstated is Sara Penn, not Sarah. security contracting firm originally known as research groups to create genetically engi- the given name and omitted the middle ini- Blackwater, and Robert Young Pelton, a for- neered bacteria that cannot survive outside a tial of a former United States ambassador An article on Monday about a slowdown mer business partner who collaborated on laboratory misstated the ability of the organ- to Saudi Arabia who said the move was an in the development of solar thermal plants Prince’s memoir, incorrectly described a doc- isms to survive when denied the nutrient effort to underscore the dynasty’s stability. because of uncertainty over continuation of ument about which Prince was being ques- they required. One group could not detect He is James B. Smith, not Jeffrey. a federal tax credit described incorrectly the tioned in a deposition. Prince was describ- any survivors among about a trillion organ- design of the Spanish company Abengoa’s ing passages in a draft of the manuscript for isms. The other could not detect any survi- An article about the Debrett’s 500 list of the Mojave Desert plant in California. Its para- his memoir, not the completed, best-selling vors out of 400 billion organisms. It is not most influential people in Britain, pointing bolic solar panels concentrate heat to pro- book. the case that the researchers determined out that 40% of them attended independent duce steam, but, unlike Abengoa’s Solana that only about one in a trillion were able schools, was illustrated with a photomon- plant in Arizona, it does not have salt tanks A Jan. 26 A-section article about the upcom- to survive. tage of five people from the list. The caption to store the heat. ing trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who is said four of them were privately educated, accused of carrying out the Boston Marathon An article on Tuesday about 69 Vanderbilt including Zoella. In fact, the YouTube star, A reporting credit on Tuesday for an article bombing with his brother Tamerlan, mis- Avenue, a 165-year-old home in Brooklyn whose real name is Zoe Sugg, attended The about a C.I.A. drone strike in Yemen that stated the date of the attack. It occurred on that was torn down this month, misiden- Corsham School, which is a mixed compre- killed three suspected Qaeda fighters missta- April 15, 2013, not 2012. tified the city department that ordered the hensive academy (26 January, page 7). ted the given name and the surname of one house’s demolition. It is the Department of contributor. He is Shuaib Almosawa, not January 26, 2015 Monday Buildings, not the Landmarks Preservation “As Superman’s uncle tells him when he Shuaibal Mosawi. An article on Wednesday about criticism Commission. The article also misstated the discovers the newly acquired powers of his by top Argentine government officials of involvement of John Weiss in the demoli- young nephew, with great power comes great January 27, 2015 Tuesday Alberto Nisman, a prosecutor who was tion. Though he is the commission’s deputy responsibility.” – read a sentence in “After A review of David Starkey’s Magna Carta fatally shot a day before he was to testify counsel, Mr. Weiss plays no role in ordering the nuclear step, the big leap“ (Editorial on BBC2 stated: “All that stands between on his inquiry into the 1994 bombing of a the destruction of a building; therefore, this page, Jan. 28, 2015). It is Spiderman’s uncle them and all-out war is a 400-year-old sheet Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, was not the third building “he was forced to who said this. of parchment...”. To clarify, while Magna misspelled, in some editions, the brand destroy.” Carta was about 400 years old at the time name of the 22-caliber pistol that was found An article on Wednesday about a ceremony of the English civil war, it is now 800 years beside his body. It was a Bersa, not a Bursa. In the Jan. 30 Section A, an article about an in Poland marking the 70th anniversary of old. Also, the parchment was sealed by King attack on military contractors at the Kabul the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau John, not signed, as we had it (27 January, An article about political violence in airport reported that a gunman had killed death camps at the end of World War II page 21, G2). Bangladesh which has left 30 dead incor- three foreigners and a fellow Afghan. The referred incorrectly to one survivor at the rectly stated that “Bangladesh broke away Afghan who died was the gunman, who was ceremony. The survivor, Halina Birenbaum, The Saturday Profile article, about Nitsana from India” when in fact it split from shot and killed by security forces after the is a woman. Darshan-Leitner, an Israeli lawyer who Pakistan in 1971 (30 dead as Bangladesh attack. sues groups that finance terrorism opera- political violence escalates, 23 January). A picture caption on Monday with an article tions, misidentified the location of Road The Common Sense column on Friday, about the deaths of at least 18 people in poli- 443, whose roadblocks she sued to retain, An article last Monday about a Supreme about Apple’s overtaking and dwarfing tical violence in Egypt on Sunday misstated preventing Palestinians from driving there, Court case on judicial elections, using infor- Microsoft in size and sales among techno- the circumstances under which Shaimaa years after a series of deadly shootings. The mation from a supporting brief, misstated logy companies, misstated Apple’s iPhone al-Sabbagh, a woman who was killed a day road is in the West Bank, not in Israel. the number of Florida Supreme Court justi- sales in its most recent quarter. It sold more earlier, was shot by the police in Cairo. The ces who resigned following corruption scan- than 34,000 iPhones of all models per hour, shooting took place as the police broke up An article on Friday about the collapse of dals. It was three, not four. not just iPhone 6s. a peaceful protest, not during a clash with Yemen’s government referred incorrectly to officers. an attack Thursday on the Central Bank in January 25, 2015 Sunday January 30, 2015 Friday Libya, another country whose accomplish- In the article “A land of cheap milk and no A report about rising global temperatures An article on Friday about new comments ments during 2011, the first year of the Arab money” (Business, last week) we wrote that (2014 confirmed as hottest year on record, by President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner Spring revolution, have been undercut by Dairy Crest was selling its milk and cheese 17 January, page 9) erred in one section that of Argentina regarding the death of Alberto recent events. Marauding militiamen took operation. It is in fact only selling its milk focused on more local records: we said that Nisman, the lead prosecutor investigat- over the Benghazi branch of the Libyan operation. last year Britain had experienced its hottest ing the 1994 bombing of a Jewish center bank, not the entire institution nationwide. summer in 350 years. What we should have in Buenos Aires, referred imprecisely to the The graphic with the article “Poll win could said is that England saw its hottest year in change in her public position. She said she An article on Friday about a planned visit still cost PM job” (News, last week) had the three and a half centuries, according to the was now convinced that Mr. Nisman had to the United States by Prime Minister wrong figures for Ukip. They should have Central England Temperature data set. not committed suicide, while earlier she had Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel referred been 18% now and 13% predicted for the raised the possibility that he had; it is not the incorrectly to President Obama’s suggestion, May election. A report in the World Briefing column case that she “abruptly reversed herself.” The in a 2011 conversation with Mr. Netanyahu, on Thursday about the dismissal, by the same imprecision appeared in the headline. for a baseline for negotiating the borders A map with an article on Jan. 4 about the Supreme Court of Russia, of a government between Israel and a future Palestinian grounding in Alaska of Royal Dutch Shell’s lawsuit to shut down the country’s oldest January 28, 2015 Wednesday state. He suggested using the pre-1967 lines drill rig, the Kulluk, included two imprecise human rights advocacy group misstated the An article on Jan. 19 about the recantation that separated Israel from the Jordanian- locations. The locations of the rig’s f rst drill day that the court issued its ruling. It was by a North Korean defector, Shin Dong- controlled West Bank, not Israel’s “1967 site in the Beaufort Sea and the Sivulliq pro- Wednesday, not Thursday. hyuk, of part of his account of years of borders with Palestine.” (There was no state spect drill site are approximately 45 and 15 barbaric treatment in North Korea’s prison called Palestine in 1967.) miles from shore. A veterans suicide bill shepherded by Georgia camps, misidentified the camp that Chung Republican U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson could Kwang-il, a former inmate of North Korean An article on Friday about the seizure of An article last Sunday about the selection of be the second bill President Barack Obama prison camps, was referring to when he said the Benghazi branch of the Central Bank of the 2014 Word of the Year by the American signs into law this year. A story Jan. 22 in the he could not understand why Mr. Shin lied. Libya, the repository for Libya’s oil revenue, Dialect Society described incorrectly the news section incorrectly stated that the bill It was the more brutal Camp 14, not Camp by one of the country’s two warring factions location of shootings in California last May could be the first of the year. Obama signed 18. misstated Libya’s daily oil output. It is less in a reference to the judges’ consideration of a terrorism risk insurance law Jan. 12. than 250,000 barrels a day, not less than 250 ­#yesallwomen, a phrase used on the Internet An article on Saturday about the royal line of a day. after the shootings. They occurred near the A photo caption with a Jan. 29 Page One succession dictated by King Salman of Saudi University of California, Santa Barbara – not article about Oklahoma’s earthquakes and Arabia misstated his rank among the sons of The United Nations Memo article on Friday, on the campus. their relationship to oil and gas drilling incor- the country’s founder, King Abdulaziz, to about the circumstances behind the timing rectly described the device that seismolo- reign as king. He is the sixth son to hold the of the General Assembly’s vote to hold its An article last Sunday about the murder of gist Amberlee Darold was shown wiring throne, not the fifth. first meeting devoted to the rise of anti- the hedge fund manager Thomas Strong 14 Gilbert Sr., for which his son, Thomas Jr., said they stood in solidarity with the Charlie ing for inflation – not for an opening on a is Carnegie Mellon University, not Case has been charged, quoted incorrectly from Hebdo editors were lying to themselves. It January weekend. Western Reserve University. comments by Michael M. Thomas, a former was by Egor Prosvirnin, who edits a popu- investment banker, about the effects that lar website with Russian nationalist leanings A Jan. 21 Metro article about an unsuccess- A picture caption (Made in Dagenham, 14 wealth can have on families. He said if he and posted the comment on Facebook – not ful attempt in the Virginia Senate to block January, page 22) suggested that Ford’s plant were to write a book about his own privileged by Ilya Varlamov, another Russian blogger. undocumented immigrant students from in east London was “modernising its pro- upbringing, he would title it “Orphans With (On his own blog, Mr. Varlamov repro- qualifying for in-state tuition at the state’s duction line to make diesel engines, creating Parents” – not “Orphans With Families.” duced Mr. Prosvirnin’s comment and said he public colleges misattributed a quotation. 3,000 jobs”. In fact there will be 318 new agreed with it.) It was Sen. Mamie E. Locke, not Sen. L. jobs; Ford employs a total of about 2,800 The cover article on Jan. 11 about 52 places Louise Lucas, who called Sen. Richard H. workers at Dagenham. to go in 2015 referred incorrectly to one An article on Wednesday about freshman Black’s warning of lawsuits “inaccurate and country that was highlighted. It is Georgia, lawmakers for whom the State of the Union misleading.” An article on Tuesday about the release by not the Democratic Republic of Georgia. address on Tuesday night was a rite of passage the Cuban government of 53 imprisoned And an accompanying article about high- misidentified, in some editions, the theme January 21, 2015 Wednesday dissidents as part of an agreement with the speed train services referred incorrectly park to which one of the freshmen took his An article on Tuesday about the harsh treat- United States to restore diplomatic relations to Paris-to-Barcelona service. It started in family over the weekend. Carlos Curbelo, ment of animals at the U.S. Meat Animal and bolster economic exchanges misstated December 2013; it is not beginning service a Republican representative, and his family Research Center in Nebraska described the day an American delegation is to go to this year. went to Disney World, in their home state of incorrectly an experiment with cows inten- Cuba for talks. The talks are scheduled for Florida – not to Disneyland. (Mr. Curbelo ded to produce more twins. Eggs – not Wednesday, not Thursday. An article last Sunday about how the Danish delivered the Republicans’ Spanish-language embryos – were fertilized with semen. island Samso achieved renewable energy response to President Obama’s speech.) An article on Friday about a turbine in independence misstated the amount of elec- A feature about the handover of the govern- Sunset Park, Brooklyn, the first large-scale tricity produced and exported by Samso’s January 22, 2015 Thursday ment’s fitness-for-work testing scheme from wind turbine to be installed in New York wind farms. They produce 105,000 mega- An article on Wednesday about an agree- Atos to Maximus was wrong to quote John City, described incorrectly in some editions watt-hours, not 105, and export 80,000 ment to resolve pollution issues that occur- Pring, of the Disability News Service, as say- the amount energy that it can generate. It is megawatt-hours, not 80. red because of Los Angeles’s use of water ing that the “Atos claim that its staff were up to 100 kilowatts of electricity, not 100 from Owens Valley misidentified the regularly being assaulted by benefit claim- kilowatts per hour. The Fair Game column last Sunday, about method by which water was moved south ants was an attempt to shift the blame”. The the benefits to the economy of falling oil to the city, beginning in 1913. An aqueduct comment was made by Andy Greene, of January 18, 2015 Sunday prices, misstated the size of the payroll tax was used, not an aquifer. Disabled People Against Cuts, in an article A column about murders at the offices of cut in 2011 and 2012. It was two percentage written by Pring for the DNS. (Lousy job? the magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris on points, not 2 percent. An article on Friday about prosecutions We’ll take it, 19 January, page 8). 7 January (8 January, page 38) said: “In and convictions by the French authorities sixth-century Mecca, it was the prophet January 24, 2015 Saturday of people who voiced support for terrorism An article on Saturday about a decision by Muhammad who fought for free speech We suggested that the General Medical in the wake of the Paris attacks, a response the car-hailing service Uber to require more to proclaim one God as the creator of life Council was responsible for allowing that raised questions about a double stan- extensive background checks of its drivers in and worthy of worship.” In seventh-cen- European doctors to work in Britain wit- dard for free speech, misspelled part of the India referred incorrectly at several points to tury Mecca, that should have said: while hout proving their English language skills name of the town in eastern France where a the head of Uber’s safety division in India. Muhammad was born in the sixth century (News, Jan 22). In fact, the Medical Act pro- man shouted support for the attackers. It is The executive, Deval Delivala, is a woman. (around 570 CE), it was at the age of 40 that hibited language testing of doctors from the Bourgoin-Jallieu, not Bourgoin-Jalieu. he received his first revelation from God, European Economic Area until the legisla- An article on Tuesday about the shifting according to Islamic tradition. tion was changed in 2014. An article on Monday about the recent use politics around the issue of net neutrality of aerial banners to broadcast criticism over misidentified one of the behemoth compa- An article on Dec. 28 about visiting immi- A picture caption on Friday with the conti- the New York region referred incorrectly to nies against which Netflix says it needs pro- grant communities in Paris outside the usual nuation of an obituary about King Abdullah the sponsorship of a message demanding that tection to keep its customers from experien- tourist areas misidentified the arrondisse- of Saudi Arabia misstated the day that his Mayor Bill de Blasio apologize to the New cing slow Internet access. It is Time Warner ment in which Chez Hanna, a restaurant brother Salman bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud York police. He is Michael Sheehan, a reti- Cable, not Time Warner. where you can buy falafel to go, is located. announced that he had assumed the throne. red Westchester County corrections officer; It is in the Fourth Arrondissement, not in As the obituary correctly noted, it was it is not the case that the sponsor’s identity A report in the “Arts, Briefly” column on the Third. And the article described incor- Friday, not Thursday. remained undisclosed. Because of an editing Monday about a British judge’s ruling in a rectly the areas around Paris in which rural error, a picture caption also misidentified lawsuit that Sotheby’s was not negligent in migrants from Brittany and Basque Country An article on Friday about a planned visit that banner’s sponsor as Retired N.Y.P.D. for concluding that a painting it sold in 2006 settled in the 1800s. It was in the outer to the United States by Prime Minister a Safe New York. was not by Caravaggio misstated the dol- neighborhoods of Paris, not the northern Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel referred And because of an editing error, a picture lar equivalent of the £11 million for which reaches of the city. incorrectly to plans for him to speak to the caption in some editions described incor- Sotheby’s was sued. It is about $16.7 mil- Congress and described such an appearance rectly Ashley Chalmers, the owner of an lion, not about $166.6 million. An article last Sunday about a 2010 police incorrectly. While he had been invited to aerial advertising business. The photograph, raid on the home of Amedy Coulibaly, a address Congress in February, he had not of Mr. Chalmers standing by his plane, sho- January 20, 2015 Tuesday Muslim extremist who was involved in the committed to do so. And such an appearance wed him displaying a banner with a message Sir John Jenkins is currently ambassador terrorist attacks in Paris last week, misstated would be during a joint meeting of Congress for the mayor, not preparing to fly it. to Saudi Arabia, not “former” as stated the number of rifle cartridges found in his – not during a joint session, which is held to (“Cameron must expose this theocracy of home. It was 240, not 340. conduct official business. (Mr. Netanyahu’s The “Popular Demand” listing in the Most hate”, Opinion, Jan 19). We apologise for plans now call for him to visit in March.) Wanted chart on Monday misstated the the error. An article published in 2013 (“‘Asbos’ to metric for social media activity used by silence 25 hate clerics”, News, December January 23, 2015 Friday General Sentiment, an analytics company. An article on Thursday about the estimated 22) about proposals to impose antisocial An article on Wednesday about President Its so-called GS score is an index of online loss in revenues to New York City dur- behaviour orders on certain Islamic preach- Obama’s State of the Union address, in “conversations,” in this instance measured in ing a slowdown by the police erroneously ers stated that Dr Haitham al-Haddad had which he said better politics would allow the thousands, that mention a movie or per- included several factors affecting the total been banned from speaking at the London Republicans and Democrats to come son over a 24-hour period, not single men- amount cited by city officials. The estimate School of Economics after the Jewish society together on reforming the criminal justice tions during that period. of less than $5 million in losses did not complained about his allegedly hostile views system, referred incorrectly to the death of include the potential loss of revenue from towards Jews. We understand that while the Eric Garner on Staten Island. He died after The California Snapshot graphic in the Jan. speeding tickets, other moving violations talk was postponed during the LSE’s inves- being placed in a chokehold by a police offi- 16 California section included a pie chart of and petty crimes that were not cited. tigation, Dr Haddad sent the LSE a letter cer; he was not shot to death. the sectors in which immigrants who are in rejecting anti-semitism and the talk went the country without legal permission work An article about claims of electoral fraud in ahead later. A review of Michael Bloch’s biography in Los Angeles County, but the totals added the runup to a mayoral election in Tower of the former Liberal party leader Jeremy up to only 67%. Hamlets said that Eric Pickles, the commu- January 17, 2015 Saturday Thorpe (17 January, page 7, Review) said The data should have indicated that these nities secretary, “took direct control of the An article last Saturday about questions con- that “At one moment, the entire parliamen- are the top five sectors of employment: arts, council” last year. To clarify: Pickles took cerning how the jihadists responsible for the tary party could have fitted into a London entertainment, recreation, accommoda- control of key functions of administration murders of 17 people in Paris were able to taxi, and ... all but one of those had won tion, food services, 18%; professional, sci- when he appointed three commissioners to execute brazen attacks despite being known their seats because neither Labour nor the entific, management, administration, waste oversee grant-giving, appointments, prop- to the authorities referred incorrectly to the Conservatives had fought for them”. To clar- management, 15%; construction, 13%; erty deals and the administration of future director of the Foundation for Strategic ify: this was a reference to the six seats the manufacturing, 11%; retail trade, 10%. elections in the borough. The council has Research, who was quoted in the article. The Liberals won in the 1951 general election, The remaining 33% of workers are in other asked us to point out that other functions director, Camille Grand, is a man. and in fact Labour had contested all six of sectors. such as education, social care provision, them; the Conservatives had contested only street cleaning, housing and homelessness An article on Friday about tensions between one. A Jan. 15 OpEd about the Palestinians’ services are unaffected by this move. In addi- the White House and Congress over sanc- move to join the International Criminal tion, the print headline stated: “ Muslim tions on Iran misstated the timing of sanc- The Moscow Journal article on Jan. 13, about Court implied that Tel Aviv is the seat of the mayor rejects claims of corruption and tions that would be imposed under one pro- Russian reactions to the terrorist attacks Israeli government. The government is based extremism “ (15 January, page 17). In fact posal in the Senate. The legislation includes in Paris, and how some of those reactions in Jerusalem. his statement to the Guardian did not refer a trigger that would impose sanctions only were affected by Moscow’s strained relations to extremism. after the June 30 deadline for nuclear nego- with the West, rendered incorrectly a quota- An article on Monday about the weekend tiations with Iran. The sanctions would not tion in the tabloid Komsomolskaya Pravda box-office revenue for movies, including January 19, 2015 Monday be imposed before talks are completed. from a political analyst. As Komsomolskaya the estimated $105.2 million for “American A news analysis article on Wednesday about Pravda correctly noted, an analyst told the Sniper,” a record for a January weekend American officials’ rethinking crime con- January 16, 2015 Friday newspaper, “Because Washington needs war opening, erroneously attributed a distinc- trol and incarceration in light of a declin- An article last Friday about the sequence in Ukraine!” – not “Because Russia needs tion to “Avatar.” It held the record for the ing crime rate misidentified the university of events in the terrorist attack on Charlie war in Ukraine!” The article also erroneously biggest box-office take for a January week- where Daniel S. Nagin, who discussed law Hebdo, the French satirical newspaper, attributed a comment that Russians who end – $74.4 million in 2010, after adjust- enforcement issues, is a criminologist. It referred incorrectly to L’Humanité, which 15 quoted one of the survivors of the attack. It Also because of an editing error, the article An article on Dec. 7 about an announce- ter. She was one of several legitimate grand- is a French newspaper, not a magazine. misidentified the parent of the Fox News ment by the Pakistani military that it had children of the king’s, not the only one. (The Channel, on which a self-described expert on killed an Al Qaeda operative wanted in best known was Queen Victoria.) An obituary on January 4 about the Polish Islamic terrorism charged that the entire city the United States on charges of plotting to poet and essayist Stanislaw Baranczak mis- of Birmingham, England, was off limits to bomb several targets, including the New An article last Sunday about fast-paced stated the reason he was unable to accept a non-Muslims. The parent company is 21st York City subway system, misidentified the events last February that led to the abrupt job at Harvard for almost three years. The Century Fox, not the News Corporation. source of an official statement on the death downfall of Ukraine’s president, Viktor F. Polish government denied him a passport, of the operative, Adnan G. el-Shukrijumah. Yanukovych, misspelled the surname of an not a visa. An editing error meant that a crucial part It was from the Pakistani Army, not from ally of the president who broke with him of a sentence was missing from a report on Inter-Services Intelligence, Pakistan’s spy over his refusal to sign a trade deal with the A front-page story Friday about Pope the front page of Wednesday’s paper (Editors agency. And also because of an editing error, European Union. She is Inna Bogoslovskaya, Francis’ decision to canonize Junipero Serra demand urgent action as snooping fears esca- the article misstated the number of aides not Bogolovskaya. as a saint incorrectly reported the number of late, 14 January). It should have said, with to Mr. Shukrijumah who were killed. One years Serra spent building California’s first the missing section in italics: “[Theresa] May was killed, not five. The article also referred An article last Sunday about a newfound nine missions. He spent 15 years. had offered to provide guidance over exist- incorrectly to five Saudis at the compound at willingness by Republicans to seek an active ing police powers after it emerged the Met the time of the raid. They were captured, not role for the courts to try to benefit conser- January 15, 2015 Thursday police secretly accessed the phone records of killed, and the army described them only as vative policy goals described incorrectly a We reported (Jan 10) that the total number Sun journalist Tom Newton Dunn to find of Saudi origin; it did not say they were men, challenge to the Affordable Care Act that is of printed books sold last year fell 1.8 per people who had leaked him information in and it is not known if they were. before the Supreme Court. The case revol- cent to 1.4 billion copies. In fact book sales the Plebgate affair.” ves around an Internal Revenue Service rule, fell by 1.8 per cent to 180.6 million books. A Critic’s Notebook article on Dec. 19 and argues that it is contrary to the text of The value of book sales in 2014 declined 1.3 In the Jan. 11 California section, the obitu- about Bible exhibitions in Manhattan the act; the case does not challenge the con- per cent to £1.4 billion. ary of Black Hebrew leader Ben Ammi Ben- at the Morgan Library & Museum, the stitutionality of the Affordable Care Act. Israel said that Israel granted permanent Metropolitan Museum of Art and the In quoting a response from Germany’s residency to the Black Hebrews in 2002; Museum of Biblical Art referred incor- An article last Sunday about fears of gen- Alternative für Deutschland party to last the year was 2003. The article also said that rectly to the American Bible Society, which trification among some residents of Sunset week’s Paris attacks, we said the party was a member of the sect who was killed by a provided books for the exhibition at the Park, Brooklyn, where the Li-lac Chocolate currently riding at 25% in nationwide polls. Palestinian gunman in 2002 was serving in Museum of Biblical Art. That museum is an factory recently opened, referred incorrectly That number was too high: it is averaging the Israeli military at the time of his death; independent institution; the society is not its in some editions to two of the borders for about 6.5% in nationwide polls (Far right he was not. In addition, a rabbi eulogized parent organization. Community District 7. Eighth Avenue and uses attacks to fuel anti-Islam backlash, 10 Ben-Israel at a memorial service, not at the Fort Hamilton Parkway are to the east and January, page 4). funeral. January 12, 2015 Monday the waterfront is to the west. A picture caption on Wednesday with the An article on Monday about the ideologi- A handful of fossilised bones found on the continuation of an article about New York An article on Dec. 21 about Marissa Mayer, cal priorities faced by Republican governors Isle of Skye more than 50 years ago and City residents’ response to a drastic reduc- the C.E.O. of Yahoo, misstated the terms in the new legislative term described incor- recently surveyed by palaeontologists were tion in arrests and tickets misidentified the of a 2012 agreement between Alibaba, the rectly the rail development for which Gov. not those of a dinosaur as we said in an people shown writing a parking ticket for Chinese Internet conglomerate, and Yahoo. Rick Scott of Florida turned away billions in article (13 January, page 3). They belonged a UPS truck in Brooklyn. They are traffic There were economic incentives for Alibaba federal aid. It was high-speed rail, not light to a new species of ichthyosaur, a marine enforcement agents, not police officers. to hold an initial public offering before rail. predator. the end of 2015; the deal did not include An article in the Jan. 10 Business section a requirement for Alibaba to hold one by An article on Dec. 23 about a Christmas The TV Watch column on Monday, about about stock markets defined a market pull- 2014. address by Pope Francis in which he shar- the broadcast of the Golden Globes award back as a decline of more than 10% and a ply criticized the Vatican bureaucracy refer- ceremony, referred incorrectly to Jeffrey correction as a drop of 20%. A pullback is January 10, 2015 Saturday red incorrectly to the proceedings of a con- Tambor’s character in “Transparent,” the less than 10% and a correction is 10% or An article on Friday about the two brothers sistory. The pope announces the names of Amazon series that was named best comedy. more. A drop of 20% or more indicates that sought in the murders of 12 people at a news- new cardinals he has chosen; the cardinals The character is a transgender woman, not a stock values have entered what’s known as a paper in Paris misspelled the name of a park are not elected. transgender man. bear market. in northeastern Paris where a group of young jihadists trained. It is Buttes-Chaumont, not A picture caption on Dec. 31 with an article HMS Astute is a nuclear-powered subma- An article about an NHS England review Buttes-Chaumon. about the return of American forces to Iraq, rine, not part of Britain’s nuclear deterrent which may end its use of some high-priced this time to train recruits to that country’s fleet as incorrectly stated in a picture caption cancer medicines wrongly implied that the “Women need to thrive, not just sur- military, described the scene incorrectly. The on January 14. pharmaceutical company Sanofi had raised vive” (Comment page, Jan. 1, 2015) said photograph showed American troops trave- the possibility of legal action. That is not the Thailand’s first woman Prime Minister ling between bases in Iraq, not en route to January 13, 2015 Tuesday case (9 January, page 14). Yingluck Shinawatra was ousted in a mili- Iraq. Our article entitled ‘1 in 10 council houses tary coup in May. Actually, she was asked to is occupied by a foreigner’ (December 16) Greece’s public debt is equivalent to 175 step down by a Thai constitutional court on An article on Monday about the Egyptian was based on a report by the Department for per cent of gross domestic product and not May 7, 2014. government’s release from prison of Khaled Communities and Local Government that €175bn as stated in a Comment article on al-Qazzaz, a top adviser to the ousted presi- records only new lettings during the period January 12. An article on Wed. about the sentencing of a dent, Mohamed Morsi, misidentified which 2013/14. It does not report the proportion Palestinian man, Hussam Qawasmeh, for his of the two men once was a leader of the of total UK social housing either rented to An article last Monday about the selection involvement in the abduction and murder of Muslim Brotherhood, the party that won or occupied by foreigners or UK nationals, by Pope Francis of 15 new cardinals refer- three Israeli teenagers in the West Bank last Egypt’s first free elections in 2012. Mr. as our article wrongly stated. red incorrectly to cardinals who were cho- June referred incorrectly to Mr. Qawasmeh’s Morsi led the group, not Mr. Qazzaz. sen last year. They came predominantly from prison sentence. He was sentenced to three A graphic accompanying an article on ship- developing countries and from the Southern life terms, not 75 years. An article last Thursday about Adam Reed ping disasters (10 January, page 32) was Hemisphere, not predominantly just from Tucker, a professional Lego modeler, referred some way out when it gave 2,000 as the the Southern Hemisphere. incorrectly to the novels of Ayn Rand in figure for the number of containers being • sources describing Mr. Tucker. As a former archi- shipped across the world at any given An article last Monday about criticism of the tect, Mr. Tucker is more like the charac- moment. That figure should have been 20m, Olympic stadium designed by Zaha Hadid The Atlanta Journal-Constitution ter Howard Roark, an architect, in “The based on information from a book on the that is to be built for the 2020 Summer The Baltimore Sun Fountainhead” – not John Galt, a char- shipping industry by the writer of the arti- Olympics in Tokyo, and problems with Belfast Telegraph acter in “Atlas Shrugged” who was not an cle. The key was wrong in another part of other Olympic stadiums, misstated the The Daily/Sunday Telegraph (London) architect. the graphic which said that 2,000 seafarers amount of debt Montreal was left with after Dawn (Pakistan) lost their lives each year. It showed 200 icons its Olympic stadium was built for the 1976 The Dominion Post (West Virginia) January 14, 2015 Wednesday with a key saying that each one equalled Summer Games. It was $1.5 billion, not An article on Friday about the Egyptian 100 seafarers. It should have said each icon more than $2 billion. The Financial Times government’s destruction of a town on the equalled 10 seafarers. The Gazette (Montreal) border of the Gaza Strip as the government An article on Thursday about a slower pace The Guardian expanded a security zone there misidenti- An Op-Ed article about tourism declining in New York City’s courts following a dras- Hartford Courant (Connecticut) fied the source of the attacks that led to the in Africa because of Ebola incorrectly iden- tic drop in arrests misstated the year of the The Hindu (India) decision to begin bulldozing the town. The tified the capital of Sierra Leone as Freeport. Sept. 11 terror attacks, which also precipi- The Hamilton Spectator (Ontario) attacks were by militants, not by the military. It is Freetown. tated a drop in cases. It was 2001, of course, The Independent (London) not 2011. The Irish Times An article on Tuesday about a proposal by A headline was wrong to say that a for- Los Angeles Times President François Hollande of France to mer prime minister of Sri Lanka had been January 11, 2015 Sunday The New York Times ease the sanctions against Russia in exchange accused of attempting to stage a coup after An article last Sunday about public service The Observer (London) for progress in the negotiations over the results showed he was losing last week’s elec- announcements on domestic abuse shown Richmond Times Dispatch (Virginia) future of Ukraine referred incorrectly to tion. As the story made clear, it is the for- during N.F.L. game telecasts misidentified St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Missouri) Sigmar Gabriel, who raised concerns about mer president Mahinda Rajapaksa who is the channels on which the commercials San Jose Mercury News (California) the sanctions. He is Germany’s vice chancel- facing investigation by the new government with Amy Poehler, Courteney Cox and Tim The Scotsman lor, not “a” vice chancellor of the country. (It (12 January, page 18). Gunn first appeared. The commercials were Scottish Daily Mail has only one.) shown on Fox News and USA Network, South China Morning Post The Monterrey Journal article on Thursday, among others – not on Comedy Central and The Sun (England) An article on Tuesday about a Twitter post about a satirical bus tour in Monterrey, MTV. Sydney Morning Herald by Rupert Murdoch on the Paris terror- Mexico, organized by a group of activists ist attacks paraphrased incorrectly from his called Via Ciudadana that visits places asso- A review on Dec. 28 about “A Royal Tampa Bay Times (Florida) comments. He said that Muslims must be ciated with corruption, misstated the given Experiment: The Private Life of King George The Times / Sunday Times (London) held responsible for the attacks, not that name of a member of Via Ciudadana. She is III,” by Janice Hadlow, referred incorrectly USA Today they should apologize for them. Lorenia Canavati, not Lisa. to Princess Charlotte, George’s granddaugh- The Washington Post 16 An article on Thursday about arguments melodies respectable again and the cigar- pipeline under the Black Sea misidenti- in some editions, the nuclear test shown in before the federal appeals court in New chewing writer of acid poetry were equally fied the professional Bulgarian soccer team the photograph. It was one of the Marshall Orleans over Texas abortion laws described ironic and romantically minded by turns,” that Gazprom, Russia’s state-owned energy Islands tests that were part of Operations incorrectly one issue raised by judges. They not “who was making melodies respectful giant, agreed to sponsor to sweeten the deal. Crossroads in 1946, not the one known as questioned whether a legally significant again.” The team is Levski Sofia, not CSKA Sofia. “Castle Bravo” in 1954. “large fraction” of Texas women would live (While the Bulgarian prime minister origi- too far from abortion clinics, not whether a January 7, 2015 Wednesday nally said Gazprom would sponsor CSKA A mistranslation in a commentary piece on large fraction of clinics would close. We reported (News in brief, Jan 2) the arrest Sofia, the company later changed its mind.) the Pegida anti-immigrant protest marches of a man “who fired a weapon at President in Dresden allowed this sentence into the A report in the Inside Art column on Friday Erdogan’s offices in Istanbul”. We have been An article on Thursday about the defeat of paper: “For centuries, commemorations of about the Brooklyn Museum’s acquisition asked to clarify that Dolmabahçe Palace, Russia’s “white ribbon” opposition, which the Second World War here have concentra- of its first painting by the African-American where the incident took place, is a museum had tried since 2011 to oust President ted on the allied bombing of 13 February artist Beauford Delaney misstated part of a and not a government office. Vladimir V. Putin from office, misstated the 1945.” We meant, of course, decades. The comment by Teresa A. Carbone, curator of day Aleksei A. Navalny, a prominent critic of mistake was ours, not the author‘s. (In American Art at the museum. She said she An article on December 28 about the con- Mr. Putin, was convicted of fraud as well as Focus, last week, page 23). believed the museum was the first to display flict in Syria evolving into a bloody standoff when demonstrators gathered to protest the African traditional art as art, in the 1920s, dominated by the government of President verdict. The verdict was on Tuesday and the January 3, 2015 Saturday not that it was the first museum to show Bashar al-Assad and extremist groups, demonstration was that night; those events We stated that the National Gallery portrait African-American art as early as the 1920s. something that has left many opponents of did not occur last Monday. of Henry VII (Arts, Jan 2) shows him “hold- Mr. Assad feeling disillusioned, misstated ing the red rose symbolic of his newly vic- January 9, 2015 Friday the length of the civil war. A report about Julie-Anne Corr Johnston torious Yorkist house”. In fact, the painting The report, “Educationist Saiyid Hamid It will have its fourth anniversary this year of the Progressive Unionist party, who was shows a Tudor rose, in which the red rose of passes away” (December 31, 2014), errone- and begin its fifth year; it is not headed elected to Belfast city council last May, said Lancaster is combined with the white rose ously said that Hamid was the last surviv- toward its fourth year. she was the first openly lesbian politician in of York. ing ICS officer in India. Actually, Valluri Northern Ireland (Gay, pro-choice loyalist Kameshwara Rao, a former Indian Civil A caption for a courtroom sketch on breaks mould of Ulster politics, 2 January, The Saturday Profile article on Dec. 13, Service (ICS) officer who turned a centenar- Tuesday with an article about jury selec- page 17). We meant to say that she was the about challenges facing Nils Usakovs, an ian on July 15, 2014, lives in Hyderabad. tion in the trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev for first openly lesbian unionist politician in ethnic Russian who was recently elected the 2013 bombing at the Boston Marathon Northern Ireland; Mary Ellen Campbell of mayor of Riga, the capital city of Latvia, An article by Kieran Conway, published on misidentified the defendant. He was shown Sinn Féin, who is also gay, first served as a misstated the year that Latvia became inde- December 5th last, referred to the journalist second from the right, not second from the councillor in Belfast in 2010. pendent of Russia. It was 1991 – not 1989, and author Ed Moloney and wrongly iden- left. (The people at the left were part of his which was the year the country’s parliament tified him with “the broad dissident move- legal team.) An article on December 20 about California’s voted to declare independence. ment” in dispute with Sinn Féin. move to allow undocumented immigrants Mr Conway did not mean to associate Mr A picture caption on Dec. 21 with an arti- to apply for a driver’s license misstated one January 1, 2015 Thursday Moloney with any dissident movement cle about the oil, gas and coal boom in the application requirement. While automobile In our leader “Happy New Year” (Jan 1), whose aim is to undermine the Good Friday Xinjiang region of China, where ethnic insurance is required to register a vehicle we gave various reasons for optimism about Agreement and the peace accords that fol- Uighurs have long been at odds with the in California, insurance is not needed for a world and British events, including “The lowed it. nation’s Han majority, referred incorrectly to driver’s license. national debt has not fallen as much as However, that meaning could be taken from the Uighurs who live in Karamay, a city at expected but it is lower than it was.” This Mr Conway’s article. Mr Conway accepts his the center of the region’s oil exploration and An article in Sunday’s Business & Jobs sec- was a mistake. We should have said “budget error and apologises for it as does The Irish production. They are a minority there, not tion misstated the date of exemptions to deficit”, not “national debt”. Official figures Times. a plurality. (Uighurs do constitute a plural- the U.S. embargo on exports to Cuba. The show that public sector net debt, excluding ity of residents in the Xinjiang region, which exemption for food and agricultural exports public-sector banks, amounted to £1,457.2 An article on Thursday about China’s moves includes Karamay.) was reauthorized in 2000, the medical pro- billion (79.5 per cent of GDP) at the end of to enforce a widely ignored law requiring its ducts exemption in 1992. November 2014, an increase of £89.7 billion expatriate citizens to pay income tax mis- An article in the Dec. 29 Section A about compared with November 2013. stated the threshold for the top tax bracket a California law mandating cage-free hen- January 4, 2015 Sunday in China. The top bracket, 45 percent, houses said that laying hens outnumber A caption last Sunday with a photo of the An article about an Irish high court deci- begins at $12,900 a month – not $12,900 a people 2 to 1 in Iowa. The correct ratio is sky as seen from the Southern Hemisphere sion, which allowed doctors to switch off year – after deductions. 20 to 1. incorrectly referred to a galaxy. While the the life-support system sustaining a brain- photo showed the Southern Cross, Milky dead woman who was 18 weeks pregnant, An article on the Personal Tech pages on An article in the Jan. 6 Section A about new Way and Carina Nebula, it did not show the confused article 8 of the Irish constitution Thursday about security threats posed by Lebanese visa rules aimed at deterring Syrian Large Magellanic Cloud. (Part of the cloud with its eighth amendment. The former Internet-connected appliances and other immigrants misspelled the name of a com- was in the original image, but it was cropped enshrines the Irish language as the national home equipment misidentified the senior modities trader. He is Toufic Hamzeh, not out of the photo in The Times.) and first official language of Ireland and the threat analyst at Bitdefender, which makes Toufic Manzeh. latter acknowledges the right to life of the antivirus and anti-malware software. He is It was the bells of Shrewsbury Abbey that unborn (27 December, page 17). Bogdan Botezatu – not Bogdan Dumitru, A headline on Dec. 21 with an article about were ringing to celebrate the end of the another Bitdefender employee. the removal of nuclear fuel from the most first world war when Wilfred Owen’s par- An article on Friday about Dan Hill, a facial vulnerable part of the ruined Fukushima ents learned of his death, not Shrewsbury coding expert who reads the faces of athletes An article on Thursday about the assault Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan, where a triple Cathedral as an article said (House where to determine if they have the right emotional on the French satirical newspaper Charlie meltdown occurred in 2011, referred impre- Wilfred Owen spent final leave given Grade attributes, referred incorrectly to his work at Hebdo reversed the ages for Said and Chérif cisely to the location of the fuel rods that II listing, 29 December, page 5). Shrewsbury the N.F.L.’s scouting combine. While Hill Kouachi, brothers whom the authorities were removed. As the article correctly noted, has no cathedral bells: there is no Anglican did evaluate top prospects at the combine, named as suspects in the attack. Said Kouachi they were removed from a reactor building, cathedral there and the Roman Catholic Jeff Foster, who runs the event, did not hire is 34, and Chérif is 32. And because of an not from a reactor. cathedral has no bell tower. him to do so. editing error, the article misidentified the area covered by the terror alert that President January 6, 2015 Tuesday An essay on Dec. 14 about kissing in the An article on Wednesday about the jailing François Hollande of France raised to its An interview with the human rights bar- movies misidentified an actor in a scene of the brother of the prominent Russian dis- highest level. It is the Île-de-France region, rister Amal Clooney which referred to her from the 1927 film “Wings” that showed sident Aleksei A. Navalny, in what was seen which includes Paris, not all of France. (On being warned by “Egyptian officials” that she two men kissing. The actors were Buddy as an effort by the Kremlin to silence Mr. Thursday, Mr. Hollande extended the top- risked arrest as a result of a report in which Rogers and Richard Arlen; Gary Cooper was Navalny, gave an outdated affiliation for Lilia level terror alert to a second region, Picardy, she earmarked flaws in the country’s judicial in the film, but he was not part of that scene. Shevtsova, an expert on Russian politics. She as the manhunt for the Kouachis continued.) system should have said that she had been is now with the Brookings Institution, no warned by experts in Egyptian affairs (3 An article on Dec. 21 about toy guns and longer the Carnegie Moscow Center. January 8, 2015 Thursday January, page 19). police shootings referred incorrectly to Danae Kyriakopoulou, an economist at Tamir Rice’s location when he was shot Because of an editing error, an article on the Centre for Economics and Business There are 306,000 Indian citizens eligible by an officer in Cleveland. He was outside December 19 about the effect a hacking of Research, is a woman, not a man as we sug- to vote in UK elections, not 345,000 as we Cuddell Recreation Center; he did not walk Sony Pictures Entertainment had on inter- gested through our mischoice of pronoun stated (leading article, Jan 5). into the center. nal relationships at the company misstated, in a sentence quoting her (Deflation in the in some editions, part of the title of a for- eurozone piles pressure on ECB to inject We stated that David Cameron would be The rank of chevalier (knight) is the low- thcoming animated film from Seth Rogen, funds, 8 January, page 29). “the first serving premier to send a child to est rank in the Légion d’honneur, not the whose “The Interview” film was central a state secondary school” (News, Jan 5). We highest as we suggested in an article about to the hacking. It is “Sausage Party,” not An article on Tuesday about Republican should have said “first serving Conservative Thomas Piketty spurning the honour (Rock “Sausage Factory.” efforts in Congress to pass legislation that premier”. star economist snubs Legion d’honneur with would redefine a full-time worker under the dig at government, 2 January, page 25). An article on Saturday about Chinese com- Affordable Care Act misstated the timing of An article on Monday about Representative panies that adopt variations of international an article in National Review that addressed Steve Scalise of Louisiana, the No. 3 An article last Sunday about a drop in Gov. brand names described incorrectly the font the issue of setting the cutoff at 40 hours Republican in the House who has been fac- Chris Christie’s popularity in New Jersey as of the logo of Chrisdien Deny, a Chinese versus 30 hours. It was published in early ing criticism for addressing a group of white he considers a run for president misidentified apparel chain. It is similar to that of Christian November, not this past weekend. supremacists a dozen years ago, misidenti- the type of fuel that the proposed Keystone Dior, but it is not the same. fied a leadership position Tom DeLay held XL pipeline, which Mr. Christie endorsed, The Books of The Times review on Tuesday, in Congress. He was the House majority is intended to carry. It is oil, not natural gas. A Critic’s Notebook article on Wednesday about “The Partnership: Brecht, Weill, Three leader, not the House speaker. about the year in jazz referred imprecisely Women, and Germany on the Brink” by A picture caption last Sunday with an article to a work by Jorge Luis Borges reprinted in Pamela Katz, misstated a word in a sentence January 5, 2015 Monday about efforts by the Marshall Islands to get the liner notes for the album “Blue,” by the in the book about Kurt Weill and Bertolt An article on Wednesday about tactics used the International Court of Justice to order group Mostly Other People Do the Killing. Brecht. The sentence says, “The bespec- by President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia the world’s nuclear powers to begin talks While written in the form of an essay, it is a tacled, erudite composer who was making to win Bulgarian approval for a natural gas on banning nuclear arsenals misidentified, work of fiction, not an essay.