International
A headline on Tuesday with an article about Russia’s veto of a United Nations resolution extending the United Nations mission that monitors Abkhazia and South Ossetia, the separatist enclaves that Russia says it liberated from Georgian control in the war last August, referred incorrectly to the mission’s location. It is in Abkhazia — not “near Georgia.” (While Russia considers Abkhazia a sovereign nation, Georgia and most other countries do not.) (Go to Article)
National
An article on Wednesday about a prison in Victorville, Calif., that could eventually hold prisoners transferred from Guantánamo Bay misidentified the facility that currently holds Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, the first Guantánamo detainee to be transferred to the United States for trial. It is the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan — not the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn. (Go to Article)
Because of an editing error, an article on Wednesday about the Obama administration’s decision not to provide federal stimulus money to California to help it with its $24.3 billion budget deficit misstated the given name of the communications director of California’s governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger. He is Matt David, not Mike. (Go to Article)
New York
An article on Tuesday about a lawsuit that is seeking access to New York City Board of Education files on teachers investigated during the anti-Communist purges of the 1950s misstated, in some editions, the outcome of a legal challenge to the state’s Feinberg Law, which made it illegal for teachers to advocate the overthrow of the government by force. The United States Supreme Court upheld the Feinberg Law in 1952; it did not declare it unconstitutional. (That came 15 years later, in a decision on another lawsuit.)
The article also referred imprecisely to the reason that Irving Adler, a fired teacher who challenged the Feinberg Law, broke with the Communist Party in 1956. He quit over the Soviet invasion of Hungary and Kremlin policies; he did not renounce Communism. (Go to Article)
An article on Monday about the search for summer jobs along the Jersey Shore misidentified the location of Jenkinson’s Pier, an entertainment complex on the boardwalk. It is in Point Pleasant Beach — not Point Pleasant, as the dateline indicated. Because of an editing error, the article also misstated the location of the boardwalk where Laura Rozamus, a former Blue Cross employee, said she had been seeking work after arriving from Albany. It is in Atlantic City; there is no boardwalk in Absecon. (Go to Article)
Sports
An article on Wednesday about contenders to win the United States Open golf tournament this weekend omitted the name of a player who won the event four times and referred incorrectly to Tiger Woods’s place in history should he win his fourth Open. In addition to Jack Nicklaus, Bob Jones and Willie Anderson, Ben Hogan also won the tournament four times. With a victory, Woods would become the second golfer, not the first, to win four in the same decade — a distinction that belongs to Anderson, who won in 1901, 1903, 1904 and 1905. And Woods would become the seventh golfer — not the third — to defend his title successfully. (Go to Article)
A picture caption on Sunday with an article about hill-climb cycling competitions misidentified one rider and omitted the name of another shown competing in the Mount Washington Auto Road Bicycle Hillclimb. The cyclist on the left — not the right — was John Sutton, No. 723. The rider on the right, No. 413, who was not named in the caption, was Jonathan Calvert. (The rider in the middle, Hannah Sullivan, was identified correctly.) (Go to Article)
Business Day
An article on the Square Feet pages on June 10 about major buildings under construction near the waterfront in Boston misstated the city’s office vacancy rate of about a year ago. It was about 8 percent, not about 5 percent. (Go to Article)
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