The article headed "Code-breaking an `intellectual arms race', author declares" in Wednesday's editions referred to a £10,000 prize for breaking the coded message in Dr Simon Singh's new book. Details of the challenge are included at the back of The Code Book, by Dr Singh, not The Code Breakers as stated.
In Tuesday's "Rite and Reason" column by the Rev Robert Dunlop, two statements were incorrect. The article should have said that theocratic absolutism leads to the pressure by Jewish Orthodox zealots in Jerusalem to make the law of the state of Israel subservient to the teaching of the rabbinate, not to make the teaching of the rabbinate subservient to the law of the land as stated.
And the counsel of R.J. Neuhaus was "not to know the truth in the sense of mastering or possessing it". The article said his counsel was "to know the truth . . .".
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