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I was as big a liar as Jayson Blair when I started out in the newspaper business. But I got caught early. A week after of college graduation, I began working as a news aide at the Washington Post. I was to be Nina Hyde's assistant. She was the superb fashion editor at the Post Style section under editor-in-chief Ben Bradlee and the Style editor Shelby Coffey. I lucked into meeting Nina just as I was finishing my studies at Georgetown and as her assistant was moving up to become a copy editor. Nina told me my job would involve...

Our kids know America is doing a noble thing in Iraq. They know about brave PFC Lynch and her rescuers. About Coalition soldiers giving chocolate to Iraqi kids. About statues of Saddam Hussein being toppled. About water and food coming in by the ton to aid suffering Iraqis. We can't tell them everything because they are all under nine. How do you explain the hunt for a man like Chemical Ali, who gassed the Kurds? Or the discovery of a warehouse filled with human remains, where atrocities were committed and photographed for posterity? Or about a pregnant woman blowing herself...