Word: corrects
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...home base at Bagram - 4,800 ft. - as the elevation for the lake bed. That mistake apparently happened because Bagram's altitude had remained on the screen momentarily as he vainly sought to ascertain the lake bed's true elevation - 10,200 ft. Even though both planes had the correct altitude displayed on multiple displays, the four officers calibrated their strafing runs based on the erroneous lower number. (Watch a slideshow of the war in Afghanistan...
...even some of the more modest predictions about Jacob Zuma's rise to power had been correct, South Africa would be an empty, corrupt dictatorship by now. Back in 2006, South African memoirist Rian Malan ended his dismal assessment of the nation's prospects ("Not civil war, but sad decay") in British magazine the Spectator by asking: "Anyone want a house here?" A year ago, Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu said he was "deeply saddened" when Zuma staged a party coup against his predecessor Thabo Mbeki, "deeply disturbed" that both had used institutions of state in their struggle and warned that...
Despite the uncertain road ahead, Obama is correct in asserting that, if Afghan security forces cannot begin to keep the Taliban at bay and al-Qaeda out of its borders on their own, an American military drawdown would be disastrous for America’s own security...
This year, the HRO leadership has opted to use a politically-correct, alternative moniker for that age-old tradition known as "Secret Santa." The festivities will now be called 'Super Sexy Secret Secular Santa,' according to HRO percussionist Elizabeth C. Bloom...
...School comes first: we’re going to study,” Peppelman said. “When we have free time, we’re going to come in and work out once or twice a day and try to correct the mistakes we made this weekend...