Disgraced reporter Jayson Blair said it makes sense his book is being published in Israel for Yom Kippur. “It is appropriate that the book is published in Israel on Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement,” Blair was quoted as saying. “For the past year and a half, and for the foreseeable future, my life is a process of atonement.”
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