Word: error
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only a single paragraph, but Furrow's error-riddled written statement to police that day spoke volumes: "I am a white seperatist. I've been having suicidial thoughts. Yesterday I had thoughts that I would kill my ex-wife and some of her friends then maybe I would drive to Canada and rob a bank... Sunday I was feeling suicidial and cut my left index finger to the bone... Some times I feel like I could just loose it and kill people...
...some way, a life ended in youth may be superior to a prolonged existence subject to revisionism and conspicuous error. Death turns "potential" into realization; what one could have done becomes in effect what one did. If the outpouring of sorrow at Kennedy's death were driven by his family name, by his boyish, bouncy manner with the public, or by his good looks alone, one might be reasonably churlish in putting it down to counterfeit emotion. But the more one learns of his works, the things he accomplished with his time and money--the practical good sense of them...
...though Strauss said the error caused plenty of anxiety, it will have few long-lasting consequences...
Strauss said the error occurred after programmers modified the billing office's software to bring it into compliance with new University standards...
...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...