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March 08, 2004
Five Star Final
by Ron HoganGod is not going to stop making charismatic maniacs, so it falls to newspapers to figure out how to do a better job of apprehending them.
Nicholas Lemann contemplates Jayson Blair's hastily written memoirs for The New Yorker, describing the author as a "Major Head Case" but also suggesting Blair's inability to keep it together editorially speaking is one of the book's more compelling features.
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