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Corrections and clarifications

A reader was confused by the first and second amendments and the number of votes in the PTI report "Endorsement followed intense debate" (June 29, 2006) — on the debate to endorse the India-United States nuclear deal. In one paragraph, the text said the second amendment went down 32-12 and in another, it went down 32-10. This is how it went: The first Howard Berman amendment went down 32 to 13; and the second one went down 31 to 12. Democrat Brad Sherman had two amendments; the first having to do with the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) not permitting civil nuclear commerce with any non nuclear weapons state that does not have International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) safeguards. This was approved by a voice vote. The second Sherman amendment is what ranking member Tom Lantos called a "Killer amendment" and which went down 32 to 10.

In "Cauvery Tribunal: State raises objections to assessors' report" ("From the South", June 29, 2006), a reader says that the area mentioned under the subheading "Cultivated area" is incorrect. The sentences were: "The assessors had failed to note that the total cultivated area in the State was 29.26 acres. Estimate had been made for only 24.70 acres, thereby denying water for existing and developed areas of over four lakh acres." It should have been "29.26 lakh acres" and "24.70 lakh acres".

The sentence in "Redefining accountability" ("Media Matters — The Hindu-Magazine, June 18, 2006, page 3) was: "By dint of sheer repetition, the central government and Prasar Bharati have succeeded in selling the proposition that: a) a public service broadcaster equals public service broadcasting; and b) that Doordarshan and All India Radio can be autonomous only if they are financially more independent." As a reader points out, "dint of" and "sheer" are never used together. It is what grammarians call a tautological error.

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