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...earlier version of the April 7 news article "Faust Asks For Help in Classics" incorrectly stated that Classics Professor Richard F. Thomas "provided the full translation" of a Latin phrase. In fact, Thomas simply approved of University President Drew G. Faust's translation and did not actually provide a translation, according to Thomas...
...Only God and Bill Gates have more money than Harvard!” We’ve all heard this phrase being shouted—often from all the way across the Yard—by the guides working for Unofficial Tours...
This year, for example, History Professor Laurel Ulrich—renowned for coining the phrase “Well-behaved women seldom make history”—inserted a quilt-making unit into her material history seminar on the significance of the American quilt...
...otherwise excellent article was marred by the phrase "since the U.S. brought democracy to Iraq." While there is no doubt that the U.S. led in terms of both political will and resources, the unfortunate wording does not do credit to those who served from other countries, not least the 170 plus soldiers from the U.K. who died. Martyn Buckley, SELKIRK, SCOTLAND...
...Witch" [March 22]: I find it ironic that among the accusations against Captain Holly Graf is that she used "salty" language. Does the phrase swears like a sailor apply only to nonmilitary mariners...