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Americans, however, are the original gas hogs. The U.S. uses more oil per day than any other country--4.5% of the world's population guzzling 25% of the planet's petroleum output. But voters viscerally blame their petrodependency on the man and the party in charge. In a recent CNN/ Gallup poll, 75% of those surveyed said a President could control oil prices; 71% said this President wasn't doing enough to bring them down...
While packagers are known to heavily revise writers' work, Viswanathan said last week that she was responsible for the borrowings. An Alloy spokeswoman told TIME that although it helped outline and plot Opal, "Kaavya wrote the book." Whoever bears the blame, it's the publishing industry that will bear the burden of having again compromised its credibility with a big-money writer. As with Frey (junkie!) and LeRoy (hustler!), here was an author with a persona (wunderkind!) that was too good not to sell. They all point to the vulnerability of a publishing business (and, let's be honest...
America's Dropouts: Who's to Blame...
...going to try to shirk the blame here, not for Viswanathan nor for my generation. It takes courage and hard work to go against the prevailing grain of corporate society, to trust your instinct and passion when the powers of the market demand otherwise. Opal Mehta, too, can tell us about parental pressure (whether or not she could do it in her own words remains to be seen). Nobody I know at Harvard can completely tune out the temptations of cash or the security and immunity that a Harvard education seems to guarantee now and in the future...
That aside, it would be wrong to say that I don’t have any sympathy for Viswanathan, because I do. She is falling hard and fast, and it is probable that a certain amount of blame for this situation may be the result of some misdirection by third parties. However, we all have to grow up sometime, and I would have more sympathy for Viswanathan if she had accepted responsibility for her actions or shown the slightest bit of remorse. She has done neither, and unless she stops and acknowledges that she has learned her lesson...