[Poohbah]

Yep, sounds like these two were spending it faster than they made it when the getting was good. It still doesn't make sense to me how you could have the capacity to make a quarter of a million one year and only 25 thousand the next. You don't think the Times would lie to us, do you?

Is "Jill Andresky Fraser" Jayson Blair's pen name?

[speedy]

I think all Times reporters are interchangeable. You are never surprised by the angle they take on any story.

[Rome2000]

Is "Jill Andresky Fraser" Jayson Blair's pen name?

Yeah, I don't believe Peter and Susan Sullivan even exist.

Nobody goes from making 250K to 20K and stays in that situation long enough to tell the NY Slimes about it.