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...Fear is the raw material that sustains the flourishing industries of private security and social control, and it’s in steady supply.” The problem is that the book’s readers are not elementary school students asking what fear is. The stark factual style that seems reasonable when discussing facts is a bit baffling and annoying when Galeano beats the twin drums of truisms and vague generalities. No one is surprised to learn that if Chilean newspapers declared the U.S. government to be unsatisfactory, they would be ridiculed. Slogging through such a catalogue...
...article about the Harvard-Princeton women's lacrosse game that ran in The Crimson's weekly sports supplement on Monday contained an inordinate number of factual errors...
...write to point out a factual error in The Crimson's review of the Hasty Pudding's show "Fangs for the Memories" (Arts, Feb. 26). The review states that towards the end of the show a group of "middle-eastern terrorists" arrives onstage to perform a dance. While I was not involved in the production of the show, the typically Russian dancing accompanied by typically Russian music suggested to me, at least, that the characters were meant to be none other than Russian dancers, and not middle-eastern terrorists...
...major publishers, fearful of yet another report slamming their product, have hired more fact checkers and instituted extra layers of review. More significant, this month McGraw-Hill plans to launch its first e-textbooks--online versions of its printed texts, featuring videos, interactive lab exercises and personalized assessment tools. Factual errors, once discovered, will be corrected immediately. Five years from now the visual resolution of handheld text devices should be clear enough--and the prices low enough--that one portable e-textbook containing downloads for every subject could replace a backpack full of books...
...major publishers, fearful of yet another report slamming their product, have hired more fact checkers and instituted extra layers of review. More significant, this month McGraw-Hill plans to launch its first e-textbooks--online versions of its printed texts, featuring videos, interactive lab exercises and personalized assessment tools. Factual errors, once discovered, will be corrected immediately. Five years from now the visual resolution of handheld text devices should be clear enough--and the prices low enough--that one portable e-textbook containing downloads for every subject could replace a backpack full of books...