Word: caption
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Robyn was not crack addicted. Your reporter was told that at birth shetested positive for cocaine and barbiturates. Nor was she abandoned on the street. That happened to the first foster baby put in our care. Finally, the state of California never objected to our adopting Robyn, as a caption says; the problem was always with the city and county of San Francisco, which to this day persist in being an obstacle to transracial adoptions--the ultimate in ironies for this racially diverse and liberal city. How far we have yet to go to realize the Dream. BILL MANDEL...
...photo caption on the front page of Tuesday's Crimson misidentified newly tenured Law School professor Daniel I. Halperin. Halperin. Halperin will begin teaching at the Law School in September...
...board recall in Vista, California. While Blalack's group, the Organization of Mainstream Activists, is active against the religious right, Blalack was not involved in the Vista recall. The credit for that successful campaign belongs to Barbara Donovan and the Coalition for Mainstream Education. In addition, a photograph and caption with the story indicated that Blalack had denounced book banning in Vista. This action took place in La Mesa-Spring Valley, California, not in Vista, where book banning was not an issue...
...former NASA flight-control-division member who played a small part in the Apollo 13 rescue, and I am looking forward to seeing the film. But I was disappointed that the caption for your photograph of the real-life Apollo 13 crew misidentified Ken Mattingly as Jack Swigert. JOHN A. RIORDON Hereford, Arizona
...photo caption in last Friday's Crimson referred to two Japanese beliefs systems, Shintoism and Buddhism, as "superstition." Because the word "superstition" suggests irrationality, however, the two should have been termed "religions...