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Corrections and clarifications

The sixth paragraph of an article “Waiting for Benazir Bhutto” (Op-Ed, October 12, 2007) was: “Writing in The Nation, Hussain Haqqani said the cases against Ms. Bhutto had been hanging over her head for years without investigators unable to find the evidence to secure even a single conviction.” It should have been “ … without investigators being able to find the evidence to secure even a single conviction.”

The first paragraph of a report “The saga of the argumentative Briton” (“Newscape” page, October 12, 2007) was: “It is perhaps not widely known that Doris Lessing, who has won the Nobel Prize for chronicling the female experience and the despairs of militant men-hating feminists, has often stood up for men.” It was an editing error. It should have been: “It is perhaps not widely known that Doris Lessing, winner of this year’s Nobel Prize for literature for chronicling the female experience, despairs of militant men-hating feminists and has, often, stood up for men.” (Doris Lessing never wrote about the “despairs of militant men-hating feminists”. What was meant was that she despairs of them.)

In “Question Corner” (“Science & Technology/Agriculture” page, October 11, 2007), the words “tetrapod” and “tetapod” occurred, leading to confusion. (The question was on frogs — “Why are frogs not seen in seas?”) The word is tetrapod, which means “a four- footed animal”; specifically in zoology, it denotes a member of the group Tetrapoda, which includes all vertebrates higher than fishes, i.e. amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals.

The name of the former Gujarat Minister of State for Home is Gordhan Jhadafiya, as mentioned in a report “Phone call records not available, Nanavati told”, and not Gordhan Zadaphia, as mentioned in a report “BJP dissidents hold strategy session”. Both stories appeared on October 12, 2007.

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