Word: factually
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...Melanie R. Williams attempted to grapple with a series of complex grants and awards which the ART has received in the past few years. The matching requirements and inter-relationship of these grants are Byzantine at best, and the reporter did an admirable job. There are, however, a few factual matters that need to be corrected...
...Closing of the American Mind, justifies his imposition of a cultural curriculum on all Americans by staking a populist claim to universal education and patriotism. To Hirsch, it is not enough that all children learn how to read; he believes true functional literacy requires a particular back-ground of factual information, which he proceeds to outline in his 600-page, 23-chapter tome. Despite his protestations against labels of academic elitism, however, his arguments are hardly geared to the masses...
...disappointed. But the source and degree of the destruction are entirely unanticipated. Glynnis finds a canceled check for $1,000 that Ian had made out to Sigrid Hunt, a willowy young woman whom Glynnis had once taken up socially and then dropped. Ian's explanation happens to be factual: Sigrid had phoned him in distress and in need of an abortion. Assuming she was Glynnis' | friend, Ian had offered what comfort he could and a check. But Glynnis will not believe this story. Through a long, tense evening, the McCulloughs drink and argue. Suddenly Glynnis is brandishing a knife, there...
Your recent editorial on Asian-American admissions contained serious factual errors and betrayed a profound misunderstanding of the College's admission policy and its objectives. Our faculty, our undergraduate students, and our alumni/ae have worked too hard for us to allow such inaccuracies to hinder our effort to recruit and admit Asian American applicants...
Unfortunately, Goulden fails to pull together his reporting and explain what made Rosenthal such a great newspaperman and what exactly Rosenthal's legacy is. The book is sloppily edited and riddled with factual errors and misspellings of the names of prominently by-lined Times reporters. At one point, Goulden refers to Rosenthal's semiweekly "On My Mind" column as "On My Head...