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NEW YORK - In a town hall-style meeting that drew hundreds of staff members, top executives at The New York Times apologized Wednesday for mistakes and oversights that allowed a former reporter to repeatedly fabricate and plagiarize material. Reporters, editors and photographers crowded into a theater behind the Times' offices for the session, called after the newspaper found that Jayson Blair "committed frequent acts of journalistic fraud" in stories from October through April. The meeting, closed to other media, lasted more than two hours. "I've received a lot of advice on what to say to you today, all of it...

Ryan Spiegal: Blair incident sign of the times We have an epidemic on our hands, and I'm not talking about severe acute respiratory syndrome. The scourge of plagiarism seems to be everywhere these days. For me, the scandal exposed at The New York Times involving former university journalism student Jayson Blair, whom I knew from my days in College Park, is the straw that broke the camel's back. If the Times' allegations are true, and they appear to be, then Blair - former editor in chief of The Diamondback and darling of the journalism college - managed to con even...

<p>May 14, 2003 -- Disgraced ex-New York Times reporter Jayson Blair was sexually assaulted as a child, he claimed in a 1999 column written for his former college student newspaper.</p> <p>The column, which was met with skepticism from former colleagues, discussed media coverage of rape.</p>

<p>May 13, 2003 -- Jayson Blair's alma mater has purged remnants of the disgraced New York Times reporter from its halls and Web site.</p> <p>Although Blair, 27, never graduated from the University of Maryland's journalism school, the now-exposed plagiarist attended it for several years and was editor of the college newspaper. And he was boasted about by the school and its professors.</p>

Apr 9, 2003 Terms, slogans mislead When I first heard the term "Operation Iraqi Freedom," it made me laugh at its obvious emptiness as much as it made me sad people believed it. It has turned international politics upside down with conservatives arguing for the liberation of Iraqis and liberals demanding a more isolationist foreign policy.

Came across this email earlier, anyone know anything more about it? ---------------------------------------- The College Republicans are holding a few large events that we need all the help we can get. First, next Saturday, September 14th, is the Florida State v. Maryland football game. Ehrlich will be coming to campus to tailgate and then to attend the game. We would like people at every entrance to the game handing out Ehrlich information to all 50,000 people as they enter the stadium. We also want people covering both entrances of the campus waving signs and so forth. Obviously, any chance we have...