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Corrections and Clarifications

Is the leader of Israel's Likud party Binyamin Netanyahu, as The Guardian report said (International, "Sharon's legacy on test", March 28, 2006), or is he Benjamin, asks a reader. The Embassy of Israel clarifies that the name Benjamin is a biblical one, originating in Hebrew. It is pronounced Binyamin in Hebrew and Benjamin in English. Mr. Netanyahu uses the name Benjamin when communicating in English, and Binyamin when communicating in Hebrew, so both are valid.

Swami Vedathri Maharishi was born not in Gummudipoondi ("Vedathri Maharishi passes away", March 29, 2006). His office says that he was born in Guduvancheri. Both places are near Chennai.

In "Split vote in Ukraine" (International, March 28, 2006) the reference to "range revolution" should have been to the "Orange revolution". Ukraine's "Orange revolution" of 2004-2005 was a series of protests and political events that took place throughout the country in response to allegations of massive corruption, voter intimidation and direct electoral fraud during the 2004 presidential election. Orange was the colour of the movement since it was the campaign colour of the main opposition candidate, Viktor Yushchenko.

We got it wrong in the headline and the report in "Sonia tried to make a virtue out of a compelling necessity" (March 25, 2006) The idiom is "make a virtue of necessity", derived from line 3,042 of Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales — the Knight's Tale" and Shakespeare's "Two Gentlemen of Verona". There is no "out" here.

In The Guardian report "Questions without answers are worth asking" (Op-Ed, March 23, 2006, page 11), a reader objected to a sentence that said Freeman Dyson was "the British-born physicist who worked on the Los Alamos project." He was not associated with it, the reader asserted, as at that time, he was working for the Royal Air Force doing operations research. Dyson went to the U.S. to join the Cornell University in 1947 which was when his long association with Nobel Laureate Richard Feynman began and where he made significant contributions to Feynman's work in quantum electrodynamics. It was Feynman who was associated with the Los Alamos project, which might have led to the mix-up in the article, the reader said. The office of the Readers' Editor, The Guardian, says that our reader is right!

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