Regret the Error

Because of an editing error, an article in the Styles section on Thursday about the Mayflower Hotel in Washington referred imprecisely to Marion S. Barry Jr., the former Washington mayor who was convicted in 1990 on a misdemeanor drug charge after being accused of using cocaine while staying at the Mayflower in 1989. Mr. Barry’s possession of drugs at the hotel was described to the authorities by an eyewitness; he was not “seen smoking a crack pipe.” (That happened in 1990 when a federal sting operation caught him on videotape smoking a crack pipe while staying at what was then the Vista Hotel in Washington.) Link