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Some Nicaraguans expect the new government to banish poverty by decree. They will be disillusioned by the time and exertion required to refloat an economy that has run aground. And Chamorro will not perform without error. She considers her mission divine but suffers from high-handedness and an aversion to criticism, no matter how well intentioned. Irritated by endless comparisons with Philippine President Corazon Aquino, another widow of a national hero, she has developed a response both disarming and revealing: "I would rather be thought of as a Latin Margaret Thatcher...
...fears of everything from AIDS and Lyme disease to high cholesterol, record numbers of people are lining up to give a blood sample and get back the good news, or bad. Too frequently, though, the news is just plain wrong. Several recent studies have revealed disturbing sloppiness or simple error in the way some blood tests are conducted and interpreted...
...writing to correct an error in your article about the Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS) ["New RUS Officers Plan Focus on Women's Center," Feb. 10]. We would like to clarify that while RUS has an active membership of 50, all women undergraduates are automatically members...
...editing error, a quote in last Wednesday's feature on women in the sciences at Harvard was attributed incorrectly. The statement that women students in science are made to feel "nerdy" was made by Adams House tutor Debra Yu, not Miriam N. Vu '91, co-chair of Women in Science...
Virtues outweighed by the vices? Is this a typographical error or a Freudian slip? No doubt most Harvard administrators see their jobs somewhat differently. I would suspect the former, since he offers his comments as a "defense" of tenure, but one never knows. Other errors of this kind are not infrequent...