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See that well-dressed kid, third from the left on the bottom row? That's Robin Williams! In the 5th grade. At Gorton School in Lake Forest, Illinois. (Photo courtesy Biff Thiele)

Read more about what Williams' childhood friends thought of him.

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As a result of serious breaches of the Chicago Tribune’s journalistic standards, we have suspended indefinitely our use of Journatic as a third-party producer of editorial content for our suburban TribLocal publications.

A statement by the Chicago Tribune • Discussing the paper's decision to suspend using Journatic, the journalism-outsourcing operation which recently faced scrutiny via This American Life for creating stories intended for small towns in countries such as the Philippines. The reason the Tribune paused Journatic, though? A story published this week included plagiarized and fabricated elements. Tribune Company is an investor in Journatic. (ht jcstearns) UPDATE: Poynter reports that Mike Fourcher, the editorial head of Journatic, has resigned, claiming that he and the company's founders “fundamentally disagree about ethical and management issues as they relate to a successful news business.”