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When I could roust her from a drunken stupor, Megan McCarthy would usually start complaining about our last five posts, my management style, or, for lack of anything else, my hairdo. But in between, she occasionally turned in brilliant work. After the jump, my favorite bits of McCarthyism.

And though it's not a story by McCarthy, I love this story about McCarthy. Hearing once again about her encounter with Kevin Burton's cell phone makes McCarthy cringe, but it shouldn't. Every reporter should be this fearlessly curious.

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