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Prior days' news: By date | Search This week's print issue Back issues: By date | Search April 24, 20062 Cases of Alleged Plagiarism Hit AcademeTwo instances of alleged plagiarism involving academe are making headlines this morning. Today’s Boston Globe has a long article about accusations of plagiarism leveled against a Harvard University undergraduate in her first novel, which has been widely celebrated as a true-to-life tale of an Indian-American girl’s coming of age. The allegations, which say the book copies elements of two other novels published in the last five years, were first reported on Sunday in The Harvard Crimson. And today’s New York Times reports that an acclaimed book of advice written by the chief executive of the Raytheon Company appears to have been partly lifted from a 1944 book by an engineering professor at the University of California at Los Angeles. Plagiarism by academics in their scholarship was the subject of a special report by The Chronicle in 2004. Posted on Monday April 24, 2006 | Permalink |
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