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...Kelley, 43, who denies wrongdoing, had tried to work his charm on the investigators. "He's so believable and seemingly so open," Seigenthaler told TIME. USA Today staff members say the paper's managers, insecure after years of having their publication ridiculed by some as McPaper, dismissed rumblings about a star who enhanced their publication's prestige. Kelley had been up for a Pulitzer Prize--the second of only two nominations his paper has received in its 22-year history. (The Wall Street Journal has won 19 in the same period.) "They thought he was just the kind of thing...
...Jack Kelley was the closest that USA Today had to a living legend. The very picture of a fearless correspondent, he had, among other things, watched as three men were decapitated during a suicide bombing in Jerusalem. He witnessed Cuban refugees' attempted escape and told the tale of their drowning...
Trouble is, there's strong evidence that he made up both those stories--and a whole lot more. Many of Kelley's colleagues at USA Today had long thought that his pieces were simply too good to be true. But it was only last year, after the Jayson Blair scandal rocked the New York Times, that Kelley's bosses took such concerns seriously. A preliminary probe this winter elicited only more deception from Kelley, who, it emerged, had asked acquaintances to pose as sources to corroborate his fictions. Kelley quit after that came to light, saying he was being persecuted...
...Team All-Ivy members Jesseka Bartholomew and Laura Beckert. Well, not exactly. While both have graduated, Beckert has joined the Bulldog coaching staff as a volunteer assistant while she studies for her MBA at Yale. Still, the Bulldogs are not despairing, with senior First Team All-Ivy shortstop Leah Kelley and a pair of Second Team All-Ivy members coming back. Sophomore Beth Pavlicek can both pitch and hit, and led the Bulldogs in ERA (1.50), strikeouts (71), and home runs (three). Junior catcher Kristy Kwiatkowski matched Pavlicek’s home run total and also threw out 15 potential...
...come clean immediately and received a slap on the wrist from the Securities and Exchange Commission (sec). But by sticking to a bogus story, she turned a civil case into a criminal one. "When we first indicted this case, we said it was about lies, all about lies," says Kelley. "And as you saw in the evidence, that's what it was. Lies to the FBI, lies to [the sec] about very important matters...