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...everywhere, from the New York Times to that ball of incomprehensible muttering that is the Yale Daily News. And of course, that’s not even counting the innumerable soul-searching instant messages I’ve received from converted friends, or the time I was sent a text message at 9:30 a.m. that informed me that I had been poked by a man named “Helidon Hasanaliaj...
...Carnet" eschews panels and layouts in favor of life sketches or quick cartoons, mixed with explanatory text. The book begins in France with lovely renderings of rooftops, caf?s and the people he meets. But in the margins the text reveals an undercurrent of loneliness and anxiety. Slowly you catch on that the tour comes on the heels of a major breakup and that someone, presumably his ex-lover, has become seriously ill back in the States. (The details stay frustratingly obtuse.) In spite of this Thompson continues on to Marrakech, alone. His three weeks in North Africa result in complex...
Tribe’s embarrassing admission came after an article on The Weekly Standard’s website detailed several uncomfortable similarities between his work and Henry J. Abraham’s 1974 book, Justices and Presidents. Among other resemblances, Abraham’s text contains a 19-word passage which also appears verbatim in Tribe’s book. The accusations were the third instance of a Harvard Law School (HLS) professor being accused of plagiarism in the past year—and the second this month. On Sept. 2, Climenko Professor of Law Charles J. Ogletree issued...
...Elena Kagan has labeled Ogletree’s offense “a serious scholarly transgression.” Ogletree defended his errors by explaining that the mistake resulted from an editing mix-up caused by his assistants. After Ogletree failed to recognize that he had never written the text in question, the other author’s words were subsequently published...
...this context that Tribe’s latest admission strikes us as especially worrisome. Unlike Goodwin, Tribe has few excuses on which to fall back. As Tribe pointed out, Goodwin may have been guilty of inadvertently lifting language from another text, but she had at least cited her source among some 3,500 footnotes. Tribe’s 1985 book, on the other hand, contains no footnotes or endnotes on account of a desire to make the book more “accessible” to the general public. To be sure, the book does reference Abraham?...