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Correct the errors:

  1. "It's the old thing: you get twelve guys, you've got a football team. You get twelve women, you've got a riot."—Republican consultant quoted by Maureen Dowd, New York Times columnist

  2. "Additional fees: 18 cents extra for spelling and Grammer corrections that might make your paper spicy and any other special thing you might want to include."—Flier for a writer of student papers on Truman State University bulletin board

  3. "Also, if their religious objection is legitimate (tied to a bona fide tenant of a religious organization)..."—California Faculty Association Newsletter

  4. "Small-bosomed and delicately boned, Steinem's black suede boots are size 8AA; her wrist watch would fit a seven-year-old."—Toronto Globe and Mail

  5. "Time present and time past
    Are both perhaps in time future,
    And time future contained in time past"
    ...from "Four Quartets" by Burnt Norton (1935)—Columbia Spectator

  6. "The best anecdote for the problem was ignoring it."—The New York Times








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