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Just as her grievance charging that DreamWorks stole her ideas for Amistad was getting some traction, novelist BARBARA CHASE-RIBOUD got stuck in her own little plagiarism mess. A New York Times reporter doing research on eunuchs (hey, they've got a lot of sections to fill now) discovered that one chapter in Chase-Riboud's Valide: A Novel of the Harem has seven instances--some as many as 600 words in length--lifted directly from a 1936 nonfiction work on harems. Chase-Riboud is continuing her $10 million lawsuit...
...Hall: "I don't think the board wants you all to rush into anything that is unsafe. We do want you to rush into looking at the problem." In this he was supported by the sober-looking crowd at the front of the ballroom. "You look at that," said Barbara Johns, whose 18-year-old daughter Courtney was the first victim identified after the crash, "and you wonder, If these are known safety problems, why aren't they correcting them before people die? That's the answer we'd like--because people we love are still flying...
...ANGELES: Steven Spielberg says the slave drama "Amistad," set to be released Wednesday, might be "the most important (film) of my career." Novelist Barbara Chase-Riboud, who wrote about the same slave-ship rebellion in her 1989 book "Echo of Lions," thinks it's the most important film of hers...
...ambiguities and contradictions of human behavior. A similar task awaits whoever gets to adjudicate a recently filed lawsuit alleging that Spielberg and his colleagues are, to put it baldly, plagiarists--that they swiped their vision of the Amistad tale from Echo of Lions, a little-known historical novel by Barbara Chase-Riboud...
Years ago, before the wonders of modern science increased our life-span, a woman was barefoot and pregnant for many years, sometimes until she died. Now, thanks to new technology, a woman can once again be barefoot and pregnant until she dies. Progress? BARBARA TRINCA Bloomfield...