Word: correcting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...midst of all these exclamation points, the correct attitude was to be sick of it already without having seen it. But Brown has created something that shouts READ ME, if only because it's much more raw and immediate than anything else on the stands with such an arty sheen and mainstream aspirations. She's foraged for voices outside the media hothouse and let them vent as if they were at a dinner party (or logged on to e-mail). Physically, the magazine owes its effect to European large-format glossies like Paris-Match and Stern. A run through...
Roger Rosenblatt's commentary on the extreme sport of base jumping [ESSAY, July 19] included a reference to the death of a man who parachuted from the top of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park. The correct spelling of the jumper's name is Frank Gambalie III. Also, he did not die from the jump but apparently drowned after diving into a river as he fled from park rangers...
...Students were confused, which we don't like to do," she said. "But the calls were generally very short because we had all the [correct financial aid] information on the screen...
...Strauss said financial aid officers failed to catch the error because the correct tuition figures showed up on their computer screens--they were simply omitted from printed statements...
...said most families learned the correct amount owed soon after receiving their bills by calling the financial aid office