title: “Corrections” ShowToc: true date: “2023-01-23” author: “Ronald Arsenault”
title: “Corrections” ShowToc: true date: “2023-01-20” author: “John Thompson”
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title: “Corrections” ShowToc: true date: “2023-01-25” author: “Anna Dent”
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title: “Corrections” ShowToc: true date: “2023-01-29” author: “James Weikel”
title: “Corrections” ShowToc: true date: “2023-01-02” author: “Shane Thompkins”
OUR TIMELINE ON MICHAEL JORDAN’S life (““The Best Ever. Period.’’ SOCIETY, Jan. 25) stated that Jordan’s father, James, was murdered in South Carolina. While his body was found in South Carolina, the murder took place in North Carolina.
NEWSWEEK regrets the errors.
title: “Corrections” ShowToc: true date: “2022-12-28” author: “Christina Acosta”
IN OUR ARTICLE ON TINA BROWN’S NEW Talk magazine (““All That Talk About Tina,’’ SOCIETY, Feb. 8), we misspelled art director Vinson’s first name. The correct spelling is Lesley. Also, the previous affiliation for Vinson was German Men’s Health magazine.
A CAPTION IN OUR FEB. 15 COVER STORY, ““Drugs and Sports’’ (SOCIETY), stated that runner Uta Pippig was suspended by Germany’s track-and-field federation after testing positive for synthetic testosterone. We should have said that Pippig was suspended, pending an ongoing inquiry, for having abnormally high natural hormone levels.
NEWSWEEK regrets the errors.
title: “Corrections” ShowToc: true date: “2022-12-06” author: “Vincent Graham”
IN OUR JAN. 25 PERSPECTIVES, WE miscredited two cartoons. The credit on the image of a senator being asked about the loss of a great American institution should have read: Rob Rogers–Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. The cartoon showing Monica Lewinsky and President Clinton standing in the rubble of Washington, D.C., was the work of Bruce Plante of the Chattanooga Times.
IN OUR COVER STORY ““YOUR NEXT JOB’’ (BUSINESS, Feb. 1), we reported that corporations laid off 103,000 people in 1998. In fact, 678,000 workers were let go.
NEWSWEEK regrets the errors.
title: “Corrections” ShowToc: true date: “2023-01-20” author: “Gloria Caruthers”
IN OUR CHART ““THE VOTE TO Impeach’’ (SPECIAL REPORT, Dec. 28/Jan. 4), the photograph that we identified as Rep. James Walsh did not in fact show him. The real Walsh is pictured here. NEWSWEEK regrets the errors.
title: “Corrections” ShowToc: true date: “2022-12-23” author: “Coral Foster”
In our Dec. 25/Jan. 1 double issue (Perspectives 2000), we inadvertently republished a quote about data revealing a crater on Mars that had been misattributed in our Jan. 17, 2000, perspectives section to Richard Zurek, project scientist for the Mars Polar Lander. The quote, as we noted in our Jan. 24, 2000, letters column, should have been attributed to “unnamed engineers” at Lockheed Martin. We apologize for the oversight.
title: “Corrections” ShowToc: true date: “2022-12-29” author: “Carolyn Bell”
In “The Disc That Saved Hollywood” (Business, Aug. 20), we should have said that the DVD of “Shrek” will be released Nov. 2 and will include 15 minutes of new animation material, including a new three-minute ending. And an accompanying graphic should have noted that “Gladiator” is a DreamWorks/Universal production.
title: “Corrections” ShowToc: true date: “2023-01-21” author: “Thomas Rahim”
title: “Corrections” ShowToc: true date: “2023-01-12” author: “Armando Davis”
In our story on Los Angeles School Superintendent Roy Romer (“A Cowboy Takes L.A. to School,” NATIONAL AFFAIRS, July 23) we misstated the name of former California Education secretary John Mockler. We regret the error.
title: “Corrections” ShowToc: true date: “2022-12-14” author: “Brigette Whitt”
In a Jan 14 story, “What’s Behind the Numbers?” (PERISCOPE), we should have said that Chicago had the highest number of homicides among U.S. cities in 2001, not the highest number per capita.
title: “Corrections” ShowToc: true date: “2022-12-13” author: “Linda Puckett”
In a photo caption in “The eBay Way of Life (June 17), we misspelled Loren Collett’s name. We regret the errors.
title: “Corrections” ShowToc: true date: “2022-12-28” author: “Zachary Delacruz”
In the Oct. 7 article “Rate Bait” (Tip Sheet), we said that the new 4.1 percent interest rate on TIAA-CREF’s tax-deferred Fixed Account annuity took effect before Oct. 1. In fact, it took effect on Oct. 1.
In “Certified Organic” (Sept. 30), we should have said the girl pictured is named Nicole Mikshowsky.
title: “Corrections” ShowToc: true date: “2022-12-15” author: “Curtis Crockette”
In “A War’s Human Toll” (International, April 22) we said that Apache helicopters were shooting 800mm rounds over the Jenin refugee camp. We should have said they shot 30mm rounds.
title: “Corrections” ShowToc: true date: “2022-12-24” author: “James Rudolph”
We said that Penn State is located in College Station (“Best Tailgating in Town,” Tip Sheet, Sept. 16). It is actually in the town of State College, Pa.
In “Bin Laden’s Bad Bet” (Sept. 11) the Stern Gang is incorrectly listed among communist radical groups of the 1960s that turned to terror. We should have said the Baader-Meinhof Gang instead. We regret the errors.
title: “Corrections” ShowToc: true date: “2022-12-25” author: “Sara Swinson”
In our Dec. 17 PERISCOPE item about techniques used by the old masters (“Did They or Didn’t They?”), a photo of Jan van Eyck’s “Arnolfini Wedding Painting” was inadvertently reversed.
In our Dec. 10 story “Disney’s Lost Magic” (BUSINESS), we misspelled the name of Disney’s chief financial officer, Thomas O. Staggs. We regret the error.
title: “Corrections” ShowToc: true date: “2023-01-09” author: “Dale Gooding”
Air Force Lt. Gen. Charles Wald, profiled in our Dec. 31/Jan. 7 issue (“WHO’S NEXT”), graduated from North Dakota State University, not South Dakota State.
In “A Platform With a View” (PERISCOPE, Jan. 14), we should have said that the first of the four platforms for visitors to Ground Zero is to the east of the site.
title: “Corrections” ShowToc: true date: “2023-01-04” author: “Ellen Scheumann”
In our March 4 cover story, we said that Cardinal Law’s 1984 arrival in Boston immediately followed a posting as bishop in Washington, D.C. In fact, Law had most recently been posted in the Springfield-Cape Girardeau, Mo., diocese.
title: “Corrections” ShowToc: true date: “2023-01-03” author: “Carole Gray”
In our Feb. 25 cover story on figure skating, we ran a graphic on the skating judges, including the flag of each judge’s country of origin. During production of the illustration, we inadvertently duplicated the Russian flag above the name of the Ukrainian judge. We regret the error. Ukraine’s actual flag is pictured in this week’s print magazine.
title: “Corrections” ShowToc: true date: “2023-01-15” author: “Michael Green”
In our March 25 story on the Andrea Yates case (“A Crazy System,” Justice), we misstated the title of the National Mental Health Association.
title: “Corrections” ShowToc: true date: “2023-01-20” author: “Henry Golding”
We said that the trial for Andrew Luster took place in San Diego ("‘The Perfect Crime’,” Feb. 3). In fact, it was in Ventura, Calif.
Our Feb. 3 article “Do-It-Yourself Isn’t Dead Yet” misidentified a Connecticut accountant. His name is Robert A. Green.
In a Feb. 10 graphic we printed a photo that identified the manufacturer of the shuttle Columbia’s nose and wing tiles as BFGoodrich. That company, now known as the Goodrich Corp., did not make the Columbia’s nose and wing tiles. NEWSWEEK regrets the errors.
title: “Corrections” ShowToc: true date: “2023-01-04” author: “Dennis Gordon”
In “Piece of the Pie, Please” (Periscope, May 5), we incorrectly reported that Andrew Natsios, chief of the U.S. Agency for International Development, and his deputy would be attending separate for-profit conferences designed to help conferees land reconstruction contracts. While the men were invited to the events, they did not attend and had no intention of doing so. NEWSWEEK regrets the errors.
title: “Corrections” ShowToc: true date: “2022-12-07” author: “Andrew Peters”
In our year-end double issue, we mistakenly credited the photo of Gen. Tommy Franks (“Bulking Up for Baghdad”) as “Photograph by Karen Ballard for NEWSWEEK.” The credit instead should have read “Photograph by Karen Ballard, courtesy of Warner Bros. Television.” NEWSWEEK regrets the error.
