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Because of a reporting error, an article in yesterday's Crimson mistakenly said that only 120 people donated blood in the first day of the Red Cross Blood Drive, far below organizers' goal of 205 donors per day. Monday's drive actually attracted 195 people...
Bertolt Brecht, who plucked plots from Shakespeare, Moliere and Farquhar, reportedly said the best writers never borrow; they always steal. Brecht's error was limiting his dictum to the best writers. The rest are equally ready to find inspiration where someone else found it before. This is especially true of writers of musicals: attempts at original stories have become all but unheard of. With six weeks left, the '80s have yet to yield a noteworthy American musical not derived from another source, whether fiction (Big River), folklore (Into the Woods), movies ("Nine") or a painting (Sunday in the Park with...
...article in Wednesday's Crimson misidentified Elizabeth W. Flannery as Elizabeth W. Flaherty. The Crimson regrets the error...
...Borchgrave blames the Dukakis error on deadline pressures. "It's one boo-boo that we are faulted for every time somebody comes to interview us," he complains. But that was not the only slip. Last June the newspaper teased readers with a story about a homosexual call-boy ring that allegedly involved "key officials of the Reagan and Bush Administrations." Only minor Administration officials were identified...
While Crier is articulate, she gave the opening installments more than her share of bumpy moments, including one glaring error. Reading a story about alleged CIA action against foreign governments, she indicated that socialist Salvador Allende Gossens had ruled Chile "from 1963 to 1973." As any news junkie would be likely to remember, Allende came to power in 1970, amid criticism from President Richard Nixon. Co-anchor Shaw so far sounds muted in his enthusiasm. Says he: "What she's been doing has been very adequate...