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DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, AND THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE SPOON INCIDENT ON OZ LAST NIGHT: I erred on Friday in claiming that Yao Ming's lead over Shaquille O'Neal in NBA all-star balloting was largely attributable to ballots being available online in Mandarin. To the contrary, reported Sunday's NYT:

The Chinese vote has not overwhelmed the trend. About 15 percent of all traffic to the Web site comes from Asia, and 11 to 12 percent of the ballots come back in Chinese. Yao leads Shaq in Asian voting, but he also leads him in North America by roughly the same proportion. Through Thursday, Yao was leading Shaq, 1,015,018 to 784,920, in the last published count until the starters are announced Jan. 23.

The management regrets the error.