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...incorrectly stated that all-male investment clubs had beaten the S&P 500 by 0.56% in a recent study; Brown University researchers found that male groups actually trailed the index by that figure. As reported, though, mixed-gender groups beat the S&P handily. Also, because of a computer error, hyphens were incorrectly inserted into two web addresses last week: MetaMarkets.com and StockJungle.com...
...anything, this move is an admission of failure on the College to provide an attractive House community post-randomization and a belated attempt to remedy the error by decree. If students want to make new friends after freshman year, they can, regardless of blocking group size. Eliminating choice is not the answer...
...official at the Zimbabwean embassy in Washington said the minister of defense admitted that the manner of the arrest was "an error which was not supposed to have happened...
...Marines are strangely revising their own findings. Last week an officer speaking on behalf of the corps told TIME that it believes pilot error caused the crash because the crew failed to glide the chopper safely to the ground with its unpowered but spinning rotor blades. That is a startling assertion, given that the official investigation contained no hint that the crew members' actions contributed to their death. It seems the Marine credo--"The risk of death has always been preferable to letting a fellow Marine down"--may have been set aside in this case...
...only problem I encountered was when I installed Wham-O's Frisbee Golf: an error message informed me that my machine didn't have the required horsepower--a Pentium running at 90 MHz or better. (Duh. That's because it's not a Pentium.) Luckily, the error message wasn't fatal, and I was able to get the game running on the Compaq anyway...