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Everyone has symptoms of Jayson Blair's problem
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Chicago Sun-Times
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March 12, 2004
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Copyright informationCopyright 2004 Chicago Sun-Times. (Hide copyright information)
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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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