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McDonald's was flabbergasted. Through its attorney, former Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Joseph Califano, it warned newspapers that the ad was "riddled with error" and that further publication of such ads without corrections "would have to be considered malicious...
Besides possibly changing her accent, Kerrigan has also changed her name. She says her parents intended her to have the name "Bridget," but overlooked an error on her birth certificate, which spelled the name "Brigid...
Kerrigan says she discovered the error at age 16, when she went to get her driver's license. She kept her legal documents under the name "Brigdet," but used the name "Brigid" until she got to Harvard. She says she made the switch to avoid "a logistical and clerical nightmare...
...antiques for the president's house. In January, Stanford agreed to refund $500,000 in government money used to maintain three university-owned houses, including the president's, and to pay back more than $180,000 on the yacht, a charge that the school said was an accounting error. But Dingell, who has hyperbolically likened Stanford's deeds to the defense-contractor scandals of the 1980s, wants to use the transgressions to stir debate on the lack of accountability in the government-university relationship. "At a time when U.S. scientific efforts are falling behind," says Dingell, "to have research money...
From a telephone poll of 1,000 American adults taken for TIME/CNN on March 7 by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman. Sampling error is plus or minus 3%. "Not sures" omitted...