Word: error
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...about our perceptions of rape itself? Rape victims are often subjected to the subsequent blame of "friends," both male and female. Repeating mantras of "Why were you in his room alone?" or "You led him on, didn't you?" insidiously implicate her as the guilty party. It's an error in perception that both feeds and feeds off the silence surrounding rape. Whether or not we've noticed these attitudes hovering about us--perhaps we even recognize them in ourselves--it would behoove us to be vigilant in our opposition to them. At the very least, the campus environment would...
...very soon. A press release, stating the charges and giving directory information about Mr. Elster, was available on request from the News Office Saturday night. An arraignment in public court was scheduled for Monday morning. The omission of the incident from the police blotter was due to a clerical error...
Under the old system, police reports on sexual assault cases were tagged as "confidential" and were protected by a computer system from being entered into the police log. The omission of Elster's arrest from the blotter stemmed from an error in which the arrest was reported under the original confidential call and was therefore also kept out of the blotter...
...World News Tonight quotes an unnamed source saying Monica Lewinsky saved a navy blue dress stained with President Clinton's semen." Check the wording. Now, instead of Lewinsky talking about a dress, we have a secondhand source asserting the existence of the dress. That was an error, according to U.P.I. managing editor Tobin Beck. The story has been corrected in the wire service's archive, he says...
From a telephone poll of 1,023 adult Americans taken for TIME/CNN on Feb. 4-5 by Yankelovich Partners Inc. Margin of error is +-3.1%. "Not sures" omitted...