George P. Shultz served America honorably and with distinction in a number of high posts, but for some reason, the New York Times can't be bothered to spell his name correctly, despite repeated posts here pointing out the mistake. Smartertimes wrote about this error on September 30, 2000; on December 17, 2000; and on June 14, 2001. Today the offender is Jeremy W. Peters, who graduated from the University of Michigan in 2002 and so is probably too young to have an active memory of the days when Mr. Shultz was a regular figure in front-page news articles. Mr. Peters' article is about the confirmation vote on Jacob Lew to be Treasury secretary, and it is flawed not only because of the misspelling of Mr. Shultz's name, but because while it reports that the final vote was 71 to 26, there is no hyperlink to the roll call vote.
Back in the old days the Times used to print the roll calls on votes such as this in agate type appended to the articles, or alongside. Nowadays, with more important uses for newsprint and ink such as 2,000-word feature articles on "bondage, domination, and kink sex communities" and 950-word articles, complete with full-body photographs, on nude beaches in the New York area (this in February!), there's no room in the paper for such extraneous information as the names of the 26 senators who voted against Mr. Lew. So the more accepted practice is to include a hyperlink to a roll call vote somewhere as an assistance to Times readers who might be interested in that news. Here it is, for Smartertimes readers who might be interested.