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...however, the Smoking Gun (www thesmokinggun.com) a website specializing in digging up public records, posted a lengthy report that challenges some of the facts in Frey's book. Among other things, the website's staff found a lack of evidence that Frey had a relationship with a girl who died in a train accident when he was in high school--Frey even wrote that he was blamed for the accident, which did much to stoke his dark-star mojo. The Smoking Gun found Frey's claim that he engaged in a melee with police officers in 1992 to have been...
What's going on here? Did Frey lie to boost his story's drama and his own street cred? TIME was able to check some of the Smoking Gun's findings, and came to the same conclusion. For example, Marianne Sanders, 62, the mother of the girl who died, says that she and her husband recognize Frey but that he was not a good friend of their daughter's and that he wasn't even remotely blamed for the accident that killed her in 1986 (another girl, whom Frey doesn't mention, also died in the accident). "We knew...
...Smoking Gun, a website that specializes in investigative journalism, has published a lengthy report that challenges some of the basic facts in Frey's book. They found no evidence that Frey had a relationship with a girl who died in a car accident in high school, an incident that does much to stoke Frey's dark-star energy. They found his claim to have engaged in a melee with police officers when he was arrested in 1992 to have been fabricated. Most disturbingly, in a way (since a major plot point hangs thereon), the Smoking Gun report questions Frey...
...this normally unflappable nation there's a restless and angry mood that bodes ill for the governing Liberal Party. With two weeks remaining before the vote, Prime Minister Paul Martin was running second in opinion surveys behind Conservative Party Leader Stephen Harper, whose right-of-center platform of taxation, gun control and same-sex marriage (he doesn't like any of them) until recently seemed to place him well outside the Canadian mainstream. Why the turnabout? Because Canada is having a nationwide attack of virtue. Corruption scandals have steadily eroded the government's grip on power - in direct proportion...
...exporting its problem of violence to the streets of Toronto." DAVID MILLER, Toronto mayor, reflecting on a record year for gun-related deaths in the Canadian city after a dispute among 10 to 15 youths erupted in gunfire on a busy street last week, killing a 15-year-old girl and wounding six others...