We described Lee Daniels’s new film, “Precious”, (“Escaping from hell”, November 21st) as a shoe-in for the Academy Awards. As any horse-racing fan will know, it should have been—and will be—a “shoo-in”. Also, William Trevor’s “Love and Summer” (December 5th) is a novel and not a collection. Link Report an error
In “For peat’s sake, stop” (November 7th), an overenthusiastic spell-checking system led to the word “rewetting” being rendered as “reletting” in three different places. We apologise for any confusion caused. Link Report an error
In "Yearning to be free" (July 4th) we inadvertently implied that Lara was married to Yuri Zhivago. Our shamefaced apologies to Boris Pasternak; his famous lovers of course never married. Link Report an error
In our briefing on the global car industry (“The big chill”, January 17th 2009) we reported that Rolls-Royce sold no vehicles in America in December 2008. Rolls-Royce has since told The Economist it has sold “more than 70 cars”, and Autodata, a market-research firm, says Rolls-Royce sold 31 cars that month. Link Report an error
Embarrassingly, we have now failed twice to describe accurately the Fair Tax plan endorsed by Mike Huckabee. This would abolish all federal income and payroll-based taxes and replace them with a national sales tax of 23%. To ease the pain of higher prices, all Americans, even Bill Gates, would receive an annual “prebate†determined only [...]
