We are grateful to Alert (and scholarly) Reader who noted that we’d said something about Chaucer being written in Old English. Oh, dear. Dr. Clark, who taught us better so many years ago at Centenary College, would be disappointed in us. The textbooks say that Chaucer is really Middle English-not the Old English of, say, [...]
Caught again. In an editorial in Friday’s paper, we said the special ops unit nicknamed the Night Stalkers was part of the Air Force. Uh oh. They are, as Alert Reader was quick to remind us, a U.S. Army airborne unit. Thank you, ma’am. And our apologies to the U.S. Army. The best way to [...]
Certified public accountant John Borchert of Little Rock has not filed for bankruptcy protection. His name was erroneously included in Monday’s list of Arkansans who filed for bankruptcy, when in fact he is the CPA for the bankruptcy trustee. Report an error
Thank you, Alert Reader, for pointing out that the bomb-in-a-Pepsi-can-which didn't blow up, thank goodness-didn't blow up at the Osage Baptist Church in Northwest Arkansas near Alpena. Not in Bentonville, as we said. We regret the error. But at least it gives us another chance to say it: Be ever vigilant. The bad guys are [...]
When we said the other Monday that our state legislators had figured out a way to give themselves two years of credit toward their state pensions for every one served, it turns out we didn't know the half of it, maybe not even a tenth of it. First of all, the only legislators who get [...]
Make sure to double-check the numbers, the editor said. Okay, we said. Make sure to double-check the address, the editor said. Okay, we said. What a pest. The guy has this hang-up with accuracy. But we did double-check the numbers and address for the Haven of Rest Cemetery and did indeed get them right in [...]
Mary Robin Casteel, an attorney with Wilson & Associates in Little Rock, wasn’t hired recently. She was mistakenly included in Sunday’s Business People column. This article was published 11/20/2007 Report an error
NO WONDER geography needs more emphasis, not less, in Arkansas schools. We ourselves are an embarrassing case in point: We got our past and current African horrors mixed up in Monday’s editorial. Robert Mugabe is the dictator who’s presided over the ruination of Zimbabwe, formerly Rhodesia, rather than Rwanda, formerly the Belgian trusteeship of Ruanda-Urundi, [...]
