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...defined as fact- based information offered under oath or through documents--takes place in the trial court. By the time a case reaches the Supreme Court, only legal matters are at issue. You should 'fess up to your mistake or, as we judges like to say, issue an erratum (yes, we do make mistakes) in your next issue. Judith M. Barzilay, Justice, U.S. Court of International Trade, NEW YORK CITY...
...Michael K. Titelbaum '99 took exception to this casual treatment. A fresh string of insidious errors seem to validate their concern that this sort of slip-up is less occasional than expected, and certainly more frequent than can be desired. Perhaps it is time to go beyond the perfunctory erratum and re-evaluate some of The Crimson's editorial policies to see whether institutional changes can be made to minimize these errors...
...Washington Post carried a front-page story reporting that Senator Barry Goldwater, recently critical of Richard Nixon, had just praised him as "probably the best President we have had in this century." Next morning, the Post had a far more surprising item on the front page: a two-column erratum box explaining that Goldwater had really been referring to Harry Truman. Before the blunder was corrected, however, the original story was distributed-and printed-across the country last week via the Los Angeles Times-Washington Post news service...
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