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...Importance of attribution. With all reuse of others’ materials, it is important to identify the original as the source. This not only bolsters the claims of fair use, it also helps avoid any accusation of plagiarism...
...long or short (News, “Prof Admits to Misusing Source,” Sept. 27). Your article states in part that Professor Alan M. Dershowitz “called yesterday for stricter University guidelines on source citations and the use of research assistants so that scholars could avoid ideologically motivated charges of plagiarism in the future...
Dean would have one more, less tangible advantage: he doesn't sound like a politician. One reason the flip-flop charge has stuck is that Kerry, with his meandering, caveat-filled speaking style, often seems like a guy trying to avoid a straight answer. Sensing that vulnerability, Republicans have run the same playbook they ran against Al Gore: portraying Kerry's personality deficiencies as deficiencies of character. As a result, while Kerry leads Bush on most domestic issues, voters turn sour when asked about Kerry the man. In last week's TIME poll, Kerry's biggest deficit versus Bush...
...special peace envoy to Sudan and pressured Khartoum and the southern rebels to put down their weapons. But just as a peace deal looked imminent, Darfur exploded. Rather than risk a collapse of the deal in the south, the Administration--and much of the international community--chose to avoid the issue. "They didn't want to know about Darfur," charges Ghazi Salahuddin Atabani, a friend and adviser to President al-Bashir and then Khartoum's lead negotiator in the talks. "They kept saying, 'Please get rid of this problem...
...karaoke machine. In fact, Rebecca had so many things to lug to college that her family shuttled its massive van from Ohio to Princeton twice. And if she had it to do all over again, Rebecca would probably change only one thing: using a college-gift registry to avoid the kerfuffle of receiving six laundry hampers as off-to-college presents. "That," says Rebecca, "was a little over the top." --With reporting by Karen Ann Cullotta/ Chicago; Jeanne DeQuine/ Miami; Rita Healy/ Denver; Chris Maag/ Ada, Ohio; Jeffrey Ressner/ Los Angeles; and Nathan Thornburgh/ Princeton