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Rush and Noel, together at last

January 14, 2008 – 8:00 am

In our review of John Bolton’s memoir, “Surrender is Not an Option”, we referred to Rush Limbaugh as a television talk-show host. He is, of course, best known for his radio show. In the same issue a misattributed photograph led us to run a picture of Gertrude Lawrence with Ivor Novello instead of Noël Coward [...]

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Plagiarism at the Economist

November 20, 2007 – 8:00 am

Our article on Ugandan guards working in Iraq, written for us by a freelance journalist in Uganda, was drawn substantially from an article published previously in Uganda’s Daily Monitor and written by David Herbert. We were, of course, unaware of this. We apologise to Mr Herbert, the Daily Monitor and our readers. Link
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