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Despite accuracy issues from his earliest days, Blair was promoted in 2001 to full staff reporter, only to have his correction rate leap over the eight months following 9/11. (He claimed that a cousin died in the attacks; tracked down last week by the Times, the family denied that Blair was related.) According to metro editor Jonathan Landman's year-end summation, Blair made three times as many mistakes as the next-highest offender. "It alarmed everyone," says Raines, "and it should have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reading Between the Lies | 5/19/2003 | See Source »

After struggling through most of this season, nothing has kept Bergman down. Three weeks ago, she beat No. 23 Alice Pirsu. Saturday’s victory at No. 5 was another giant leap...

Author: By David R. De remer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ATHLETE OF THE WEEK: Courtney Bergman | 5/14/2003 | See Source »

Selecting Bach would have required “a leap of faith,” she said. “For Thomas Fowler-Finn there was no leap required. He was walking the walk...

Author: By Andrew S. Holbrook and Claire A. Pasternack, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: City Picks Superintendent | 5/14/2003 | See Source »

...people who work here.") And he doesn't yell. That's because screaming was the bailiwick of his old partner Don Simpson, who played the completely insane cop to Bruckheimer's laid-back cop until he died of a cocaine overdose in 1996. Bruckheimer has never made the Jungian leap to taking over Simpson's role, remaining oddly calm for an action-movie producer. "There are very few people in this business who are men of their word," says LaPaglia. "Most people waffle and bulls___ you. He has been nothing but straight up. He hasn't promised me anything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jerry Bruckheimer: TV's Top Gun | 5/5/2003 | See Source »

...told me she wanted to work with students to put up a piece in the Loeb [Experimental Theater],” Lee says. “I took a leap of faith...

Author: By Hana R. Alberts, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Arts Administrator Finds His Voice | 4/30/2003 | See Source »

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