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...right for the Times to admit the error, but the prominence of the correction dismayed some staffers. Craig Whitney, the Times Washington bureau chief, said he felt "immense surprise" when he saw the headline. At the Times's New York City newsroom, where the tiniest changes are often analyzed more carefully than seating plans at the Kremlin, reporters debated the propriety of the correction. All agreed, however, that it was the most remarkable sign yet of the controlling hand of Max Frankel, who became the paper's executive editor in November...
After editors in New York discovered the mistake, Reporter Fox Butterfield, who wrote the initial story, drafted a correction. Whitney and the editors eventually agreed that the error should not simply be noted on page 3, where mistakes are usually acknowledged, but be placed on the bottom of the front page. Frankel, however, decided to put the correction at the top. "We felt we had to tell the world loud and clear, 'We were wrong,' " he said. "We are laying down history...
...correction was another blow to the Times's Washington bureau and Whitney, who was appointed by Frankel. In June, after Whitney had sent a letter to presidential candidates asking for personal documents, plus access to psychiatric records and FBI files, Frankel issued a memo saying the request had gone "too far." A few days later Frankel sent a memo chastising the bureau for "lassitude" in following up Washington Post scoops. Admitted a Times staffer: "Let's face it, we were getting clobbered on the Iran-contra story...
...Whitney Houston could go Hollywood or even Vegas, become a legend or a lounge act. But for now she is happy to savor the triumph. "I like being a woman," she says, "even in a man's world. After all, men can't wear dresses, but we can wear the pants." If she dares, professionally, to wear the pants -- if her song selection grows with her technique, if she rises to the challenges her voice can already meet -- she may soon hear the sweetest accolade. "Whitney Houston? Great singer! Oh, you mean she's pretty...
SHOW BUSINESS: Whitney Houston reigns at the top of the pop- music charts...