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Skiers across the league must have wondered where Dartmouth acquired its new team member, because surely the “HAR” on the results sheet must have been a typo, a simple one-letter mistake. It seemed impossible that a Harvard skier could have really placed sixth in the EISA Championships, hosted by Middlebury. But, in fact, Cara Sprague had, finishing less than a minute slower than overall winner Katie Bono of the Big Green...

Author: By Christina C. Mcclintock, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Sprague’s Sixth Sparks Ski Squad | 3/1/2010 | See Source »

...same bind that NBC, and media companies at large, are in. People aren't going to enjoy watching a lame prime-time talk show for the satisfaction of knowing they're helping the parent company save on payroll. People who expect something else - lavish scripted dramas or typo-free news from costly foreign bureaus - will get alienated and leave, only deepening the revenue spiral that led to the cuts in the first place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lessons of Leno: Why the Future Failed for NBC | 1/14/2010 | See Source »

...Note: The misspelled "teh" is not a typo on FlyBy's part...

Author: By Julie R. Barzilay, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: IvyGate Returns! | 12/8/2009 | See Source »

...most part) -- more knowledgable about medieval fairytales than about computer science. In a story about Google's donation of 20 Android cell phones to the notorious introduction to computer science, CS 50, The Crimson quoted instructor David J. Malan '99 praising Google's "dragon drop programming piece" -- a fanciful typo that should have read, "drag and drop." Needless to say, Malan got a kick out of the typo and breathed a bit of fire back at The Crimson. After the jump, see video clip of his admittedly witty put-down from the close of lecture the day the article appeared...

Author: By Elyssa A. L. Spitzer | Title: Mocking CS50 Czar Burns Crimson | 9/11/2009 | See Source »

Amid the gruesome news generated by the world's auto industry these days, this bit of information almost reads like a typo: new car registrations in Germany rose 21% year on year in February, the country's Association of the Automotive Industry (VDA) announced on March 3. This, though, was no error. The 278,000 cars put on the road, crowed VDA president Matthias Wissmann, amounted to the highest level of sales in the month of February in a decade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Germany's Auto-Woes Fix: Scrap That Clunker! | 3/12/2009 | See Source »

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