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Article: Magazine retracts MU grad's essays ; New Republic can't confirm war stories.
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- Columbia Daily Tribune
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- December 5, 2007
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After 41/2 months of investigation, The New Republic has
retracted three essays about the Iraq war written by former
University of Missouri student Scott Beauchamp.
"In light of the evidence available to us, after months of
intensive re-reporting, we cannot be confident that the events in
his pieces occurred in exactly the manner that he described them,"
editor Frank Foer wrote in a column released over the weekend.
"Without that essential confidence, we cannot stand by these
stories."
Foer did not go so far as to say Beauchamp fabricated the essays.
"Substantial evidence supports his claim," Foer wrote. "It is
difficult to imagine that he could enlist a conspiracy of soldiers
to lie on his ...