For the record - Feb. 27, 2010

Filipino food: In Thursday’s Food section, a caption accompanying an article about Filipino home cooking referred to a dish as Mom’s nigala. The beef stew dish is called Mom’s nilaga.

“The Kennedys”: The Big Picture column in Tuesday’s Calendar section, dealing with the controversy surrounding a proposed miniseries on the History Channel called “The Kennedys,” said that John F. Kennedy’s older brother, Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., died in a plane crash. The plane Joseph Kennedy was piloting over Europe was filled with explosives, which detonated before Kennedy and another crew member could bail out by parachute. The cause of the explosion was never conclusively determined.

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