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...West Wing of the White House and commiserate about the damage that all the bickering was doing both to policy and to the presidency. Scowcroft is now back in his old job. He sees it as part of his task to stop tong warfare before it starts...
Paragraphs from a book review in The New Republic magazine were inadvertently slipped, without attribution, into a speech Tong gave in September at Greenwich High School in Connecticut, Williams spokesman James G. Kolesar said Thursday...
...said the unattributed material was in a pile of notes Tong and helpers quickly pasted together for the speech, which she gave, unrehearsed, at the high school. The review, originally published in May, concerned Allan Bloom's controversial book, "The Closing of the American Mind...
...Tong issued a formal apology to the high school and returned the honorarium when the plagiarism was called to her attention. She also notified the Williams dean of the faculty, who officially reprimanded her for failing to use proper attribution, the first such punishment at the college, Kolesar said...
...Tong blamed the plagiarism on her haste in preparing the speech and meeting the many demands on her time since she was chosen professor of the year in 1986 by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education, an arm of the Carnegie Foundation...