Word: errors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with the military. I don't think the government is with the people. It's like a dictatorship. Everything is fixed." Even Federal Prosecutor Julio Cesar Strassera, who led the government case against junta leaders two years ago, was quoted by a Spanish newspaper as calling the law an "error" and an "absurdity," adding that "society knows perfectly well what happened during those years." In Buenos Aires, a newspaper cartoon carried the caustic caption "To err is human, to forgive is divine, to approve due obedience is Argentine...
...arrogant -- institutions in U.S. society, the Constitution does not envision the press primarily as part of an establishment from which individuals need protection. It instead sees the press as standing in for the individual citizen in keeping government and other institutions honest, and allows plenty of margin for genuine error -- even when the error is damaging, intrusive and unconfessed. "Libel law gives an enormous protection to the media, which, when it's explained to people, they don't much like," says Washington Attorney Bruce Sanford. "The public loves the ((media)) product but hates the process...
...Moines Register. In some 30 cases to be handled over the next two years, both sides must waive the right to file suit. In exchange there are supervised negotiating sessions, a possible factual hearing on whether a statement was false and damaging -- without considering whether the error met the legal "malice" standard -- and ultimately arbitration. Remedies imposed against a media defendant might include compulsory airing of the arbitrator's findings but would not include money damages. Says Iowa Journalism Professor John Soloski: "The program will take a four-year court process down to two or three months...
...April 27, 1987, The Harvard Crimson inadvertently published a "Spy v Spy" cartoon without permission and without acknowledging that the cartoon is the copyrighted property of E.C. Publications, Inc. The Crimson regrets the error...
...supergenius of science who, among other things, invented calculus and deduced the laws of gravity and optics. Sir Isaac, it turns out, also made mistakes. The University of Chicago announced last week that Robert Garisto, 23, a physics major, recently discovered in one of Newton's calculations an error that had gone undetected for three centuries...