It's no mystery why many of us in the media can't get enough of the fabricators Jayson Blair and Stephen Glass, the latter of whom concocted more than a score of bogus feature stories for the New Republic (and who wrote for other magazines, including this one, once) in the mid-1990s. Anyone--journalist, student, academic--who has ever stared at a blank screen, their brains grinding emptiness, and thought, How can I fill this hole? knows that in those desperate moments before a deadline, almost anyone can do almost anything: make stuff up, plagiarize, scribble senseless half-truths.
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A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all.
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With the tax date deadline, you're getting money flows coming into the market.
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Be able to meet any deadline, even if your work is done less well than it would be if you had all the time you would have preferred.
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