Word: corrects
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...Golf Crash Sean Gregory starts his article "Crash Course" [Oct. 6] with the words "Golf carts are fun little buggers." If Mr. Gregory or the editors of TIME had checked a dictionary for the correct definition of the word "bugger," your readers would not have been subjected to such cheap, inaccurate and irresponsible journalism. Peter Woodward, MIERLO, NETHERLANDS
...Race has to be engaged in some regards. Through this research, however, we have a very exciting prospect for intervention. The fact that students start to harness social norms around the age of 10 suggests that this is a point where we can introduce positive intergroup behaviors and correct the ineffective behaviors that emerge.” —Staff writer Prateek Kumar can be reached at kumar@fas.harvard.edu...
...times, it’s hard to figure out who created a piece, or what to tag it, so I give the picture a descriptive tag, like ‘bird’ or ‘machine.’ Just let me know the correct name, and I’ll make the change.” But a few artists seem to be manipulating their own obscurity. A more famous example is the “OBEY” campaign, originated by designer Shepard Fairey, whose posters and stencils spawned an underground cult that gave...
...bowls so that they get better recruiting for their athletic programs,” Ünver said. “This is a very important market, but the problem is that it was very unregulated.” To mediate between the various participants in the market and correct the inefficiency, the NCAA had to act. “This problem began to lessen between 1991 and 1992 when the NCAA pushed back ‘Pick’em Day,’ and said that [colleges] can’t get a bid before that...
...That was, no doubt, the politic answer. But not the correct one. Obama was underestimating the public's capacity to hear the truth - which is odd, since the national desire for substance, the unwillingness to be diverted by "lipstick on a pig" trivialities, has been so striking in this campaign. Everyone knows this recession is going to hurt, that there will be a price for our profligacy and that some hard shoveling will be necessary to get out of this hole. Indeed, that knowledge is what has made Obama's success possible. But if he wants to do more than...