Corrections

-- A Digest item in the Nov. 5 A-section misstated the number of Obama judicial nominees who have been confirmed by the Senate. The correct number is five, not three. The article also said that the other nominees have been caught in anonymous holds and filibuster threats from Republicans; GOP leaders say that is not true of all the unconfirmed nominees.

-- A Nov. 5 Style article misstated composer Stephen Sondheim's age. He is 79, not 69.

-- In A-section articles on Nov. 4 and 5, remarks by former Virginia governor George Allen were incorrectly attributed to his 1994 inaugural address. It was at that year's state Republican convention that Allen said he would knock Democrats' "soft teeth down their whiny throats."

-- An Oct. 27 Economy & Business article quoted the Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) as estimating that an average of 30.4 million Americans buy a newspaper Monday through Saturday and about 40 million do so on Sunday. As the article stated in a subsequent sentence, those figures represent only the 379 newspapers that reported to ABC. Although they are the largest papers, they represent only about one-quarter of the nation's dailies.

-- An Oct. 20 Metro article on changes in parking policies in downtown areas incorrectly described a plan being considered in Arlington County. The article implied that thousands of existing free parking spaces in Arlington would become paid parking areas. The county parking manager, Sarah E. Stott, said the proposal would not affect existing free residential or commercial parking.

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