EDITORS' NOTE
The Paul Krugman column on Monday, about the health care bill, quoted Newt Gingrich as saying that “Lyndon Johnson shattered the Democratic Party for 40 years” by passing civil rights legislation. The quotation originally appeared in The Washington Post, which reported after the column went to press that Mr. Gingrich said it referred to Johnson’s Great Society policies, not to the 1964 Civil Rights Act. (Go to Article)
NATIONAL
Several articles since September about the troubles of the community organizing group Acorn referred incorrectly or imprecisely to one aspect of videotaped encounters between Acorn workers and two conservative activists that contributed to the group’s problems.
In the encounters, the activists posed as a prostitute and a pimp and discussed prostitution with the workers. But while footage shot away from the offices shows one activist, James O’Keefe, in a flamboyant pimp costume, there is no indication that he was wearing the costume while talking to the Acorn workers.
The errors occurred in articles on Sept. 16 and Sept. 19, 2009, and on Jan. 31 of this year. Because of an editing error, the mistake was repeated in an article in some copies on Saturday. (Go to Article)
A report in the Prescriptions column on Saturday about a provision of the health-care legislation misstated the age at which adult children would be no longer be covered under their parents’ insurance plans. It is 26, not 27. (Go to Article)
NEW YORK
An article on Wednesday about the resignation of the principal of the city’s only Arabic-language school, the Khalil Gibran International Academy, referred incorrectly to an interview that the school’s founding principal, Debbie Almontaser, gave to The New York Post following a controversy over T-shirts with the slogan “Intifada NYC” that were being sold by an Arab women’s group. Ms. Almontaser, who resigned in 2007 shortly after the interview, said she had been pressured by the Department of Education to grant the interview — not to talk about the shirts specifically. (The department denies pressuring Ms. Almontaser to grant the interview.) Because of an editing error, the article and a picture caption gave an outdated location for the school. It is in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, and no longer in Boerum Hill. (Go to Article)
SPORTS
The Sports of The Times column on Wednesday, about Tiger Woods’s decision to resume his golf career at the Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia, where the Masters is held, misstated the history of the club’s membership rules in some editions. After years of pressure, the club eventually opened its membership to African-Americans, but not to women. (Go to Article)
THE ARTS
A music column on March 15 about the Scion Rock Fest in Columbus, Ohio, where the Oregon-based band Yob played, misidentified the site of the club Rothko, where Yob played when it last came to New York, in 2005. The club, now closed, was on the Lower East Side, not in Brooklyn. (Go to Article)
WEEKEND
A review in the “Art in Review” column on Friday about the Aipad Photography Show New York, at the Park Avenue Armory, misspelled the surname of a photographer who has an electronically animated self-portrait in the show. She is Shirley Shor, not Shore.
Another review in the column, about “#class” at the Winkleman Gallery in Chelsea, misstated the given name of the woman who moderated a panel about racial integration in the art world and misidentified her occupation. She is Joanne McNeil, not Joan, and she is a writer, not an artist.
And another review in the column, about an exhibition of R. Crumb’s drawings for his illustrated “Book of Genesis” at the David Zwirner Gallery in Chelsea, misstated the address of the exhibition. It is 519 West 19th Street, not West 29th Street.
OBITUARIES
An obituary on Thursday about Wayne Collett, an American runner who was barred from competing again in Olympic competition after he was judged to have acted disrespectfully during a medal ceremony in Munich in 1972, misspelled the given name and surname of the sports information director at the University of California, Los Angeles, where Collett had been a track and field star. He is Marc Dellins, not Mark Dellims. (Go to Article)
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