Corrections

A page 3 news brief Monday jumped the gun in saying a pilot homeownership center in New York had enrolled 200,000 people in classes last year and arranged mortgages for 25,000 borrowers. In fact, these are goals for a larger project that runs through 2002.

A story Tuesday, "Ailing Bank Plus of California Hires Keefe to Find a Buyer" (page 32), was mistaken in implying that the Securities and Exchange Commission had specifically ordered Bank Plus Corp. to take a second- quarter hedging loss. Rather the company took the loss in compliance with SEC accounting standards.

A back-page headline Thursday on the continuation of a page 1 article misnamed the company discussed, which had given up on finding a buyer. The story focused on Memphis-based National Commerce Bancorp., not Cleveland- based National City Corp.