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...several years ago, as Viswanathan says she did, would produce such a close match. As one letter to the Crimson noted, it’s hard to internalize italics.This is unquestionably a serious offense. Plagiarism is, as an executive at Random House put it, “literary identity theft,” a high crime in both the publishing and academic worlds. Particularly at an institution that aspires to embody veritas each and every day, Viswanathan’s apparent misrepresentation and her suspect excuse demonstrate a lack of integrity.A similarly disappointing corollary to this case is the apparent...
...Random House, the publisher that has released the novels by Megan F. McCafferty from which Viswanathan allegedly lifted passages, has rebuffed the sophomore's apologies. “This extensive taking from Ms. McCafferty’s books is nothing less than an act of literary identity theft,” Steve Ross, the senior vice president and publisher of Crown Publishers and Three Rivers Press, two subsidiaries of Random House, said yesterday...
...This extensive taking from Ms. McCafferty’s books is nothing less than an act of literary identity theft,” Ross said yesterday. “Based on the scope and character of the similarities, it is inconceivable that this was a display of youthful innocence or an unconscious or unintentional...
...Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life' that contain identical language and/or common scene or dialogue structure from Megan McCafferty's first two books, 'Sloppy Firsts' and 'Second Helpings.' This extensive taking from Ms. McCafferty's books is nothing less than an act of literary identity theft...
...watch from Weld Boat House after being expelled from the law school in 1893.It’s easy, though, to wonder: so what? Does this information have any value to anyone apart from for voyeurs and curious genealogists? Well, maybe. Mr. Cromwell’s reasons for the theft are buried in the fog of history, but it seems possible that had someone told him right before he committed the misdemeanor that it would be the subject of newspaper articles over a century later, he’d have thought twice. The ever-longer memory bestowed upon...