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...private sector has all the incentive to get the job done right, but the government has none of those incentives. Bureaucrats get paid whether the government works or not, " says TIME assistant managing editor Philip Elmer-DeWitt. Nor is the government so red-faced with shame over its Y2K slip-up that it has resolved to turn over a new leaf -- or even name another self-imposed deadline. Still, don't let visions of muddled air traffic controllers dampen your New Year 2000 celebration plans yet. Cars will still run on highways, and planes -- knock on wood -- will still take...
...down the scale and throwing in lots of trills and other musical treats with consumate ease. Her acting is just melodramatic enough to be believable in the larger-than-life world of opera but not so hysterical or overly mopey that it is annoying. Her only noticable slip-up came at the very end of her death scene, in which she fell rather unceremoniously into the arms of Alfredo rather than using the more dramatic death-swoon that is needed for depressingly tragic high Romantic opera. But by that time the audience was so enamored with her and with...
These micro errors may seem trivial. In my first column two months ago, I tended to dismiss them as "the occasional expected slip-up in reporting and editing standards." Readers like Michael K. Titelbaum '99 took exception to this casual treatment. A fresh string of insidious errors seem to validate their concern that this sort of slip-up is less occasional than expected, and certainly more frequent than can be desired. Perhaps it is time to go beyond the perfunctory erratum and re-evaluate some of The Crimson's editorial policies to see whether institutional changes can be made...
...wary of giving them quotes except on paper." Supplementing his concern, other complaints about mis-spellings, mis-namings, mis-clue-ing on the cross-word--and recently, a mis-labeling of a picture of Pforzheimer as "Cabot House"--got me thinking that there's at least the occasional expected slip-up in reporting and editing standards. Pavninder Singh '98 of Lowell House, in a complaint echoed by many Quadlings, said, "My main problem with the paper is that I don't get it every day." Well, I thought, distribution problems: every business enterprise has them...
...worst potential slip-up comes at a December luncheon in 1995 sponsored by the D.N.C. The President thanks the assembled guests for giving generously to the D.N.C. "issues" ad campaign that supports his budget policies. He goes on: "We realized we could run these ads through the Democratic Party, which means we could raise money in $20,000, $50,000 and $100,000 blocks"--instead of in increments of $1,000 per donor, the limit on contributions to specific candidates like, for instance, Bill Clinton. Was he winking at the legal line that is supposed to separate the "soft money...