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A paraphrased quotation that critics said made the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. sound "arrogant" will be erased from King's monument in Washington in time for the 50th anniversary of his celebrated March on Washington, U.S. officials and the memorial's sculptor said Thursday. **SNIP** The sculptor, Lei Yixin, explained that he shortened the quotation so it would fit. But critics — including civil rights activist and former U.S. poet laureate Maya Angelou — have complained ever since the memorial was unveiled that the truncated quotation made it sound like King was declaring himself a hero, when he was actually downplaying...

<p>While President Obama vacationed in Martha's Vineyard, the Oval Office got a makeover, but one quote on the new carpet is wrongly attributed.</p>

NEW YORK, (AP) -- Isn't it "funny" how something can "really annoy" you for ages and then you discover via "the Internet" that the same thing "really annoys" thousands of "other people," too? The blight that Bethany Keeley exposes on her "Blog" of "Unnecessary" Quotation Marks ( ) is of a benign sort, of course, nothing like global warming or endangered wildlife. But it bothers people mightily just the same, as this 24-year-old grad student and language-lover has discovered from the hundreds, occasionally thousands of visitors she gets daily. And nary a day goes by when she doesn't receive a...

Tammy Bruce said today on the Fox News Channel that there's a quote in a small circulation newsletter that will soon be out and that she'll be using it.