For the record

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Our interview with biologist Jared Diamond (New Review, last week, page 8) described a libel suit against him, which, we should clarify, was brought by Papua New Guinea tribesmen after he wrote an article in the New Yorker in 2008 (not, as we said, 2009). He alleged that a tribesman had organised a three-year clan war, in which 30 (not, as we said, 29) had died and one man left paralysed. We said the case had been dismissed. In fact, the action was withdrawn by mutual consent. Further action is pending. We also said that Rhonda Roland Shearer, who investigated Diamond's story, had claimed that the paralysed man had not been injured. This was incorrect. Her iMediaEthics news website alleges he was hurt in an unrelated attack.

We described the designer Vivienne Westwood being photographed with "legs akimbo"("Fame laid bare", Magazine, last week, page 14). Only arms can be akimbo. As Collins says: "With hands on hips and elbows projecting outwards [C15 in kenebowe, literally: in keen bow, that is, in a sharp curve]".

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