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Everyone has symptoms of Jayson Blair's problem

Once I was a card-carrying member of the Napoleonic Alliance, an obscure Chicago group devoted to the memory of the French emperor. I wish I could say I joined out of scholarly interest -- though I do have a bust of Napoleon in my office, it is more due to our shared sense of humility. Rather, I was researching a story. At their big annual dinner, one moment stuck me by its sheer improbability. We all rose, in a private room at a downtown hotel, and held our wine glasses high in a toast.

"Vive l'empereur!" we all cried.

Truth, as Mark Twain once said, is always stranger than fiction, because while fiction has to at least be plausible, truth doesn't.

Or as I always say, "You can't make this ...

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