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Because of an editing error, an essay on Page 11 this weekend, about the religious beliefs of Republican presidential candidates, misstates the proportion of Americans who believe that extraterrestrials live among us. It is about a third, not a majority.
--Correction appearing in the NY Times, 28 August 2011
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Currently, all nine Justices [of the Supreme Court of the United States] attended law school at either Harvard or Yale.
--Jeffrey Toobin, "Partners," an article about Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas in the New Yorker
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Then [1950] if an American woman traveling alone wished to eat in a restaurant at night, even inside her own hotel, the head waiter would place before her a small American flag to warn the Spanish dandies that this one was not a prostitute, even though she was eating alone in public; now [1966] women frequent cafés alone, a thing quite impossible even five years ago.
--James Michener (1907-1997), Iberia, chapter "Madrid."
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