Let us hope an online footnote and correction will stall the story before it gathers the momentum of endless repetition on the web.
[The peppercorn rent aspect of this report was wrong - see footnote for correction.] The Daily Telegraph reported that Malik had run up the highest expenses claim of any MP, claiming second home allowances of £66,827 over three years on his house in London.
In 1621, Kepler published an expanded second edition of Mysterium, half as long again as the first, detailing in footnotes the corrections and improvements he had achieved in the 25 years since its first publication.
Because it was changed within hours of publication there was no footnote and no correction, which is consistent with the internal readers' editor's guidelines.
correction: A footnote for an interview on Nov. 16 with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and other Bush administration officials misstated the date of the Rose Revolution in Georgia, during which President Mikheil Saakashvili came to power and to which Rice referred.
He has written other fiction, plus history, autobiography, and film scripts, besides serving as Flashman's assiduous editor; the series is presented, under the over-all title "The Flashman Papers," as its protagonist's memoirs, which need only a few footnotes and spelling corrections to become excellent entertainments.
(Delightful footnote: The Huffington Post has already had to print a correction saying that its version of an anecdote featuring Mr. Lowe, Andy Warhol, Diana Ross and Cornelia Guest "incorrectly referred to Cornelia Guest as a socialist instead of a socialite").
Corrections and clarifications of some aspects of the piece appear in a footnote.
From its very first pages, "Whereas" reads like a book of robust corrections, parenthetical comments, footnotes and arguments with definitions.
