Word: bottumã
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...piece that—surprisingly—has been left out of the anthology is former books and arts editor Joseph Bottum??s October 2004 article on Harvard constitutional law scholar Lawrence Tribe. Bottum revealed that Tribe, in a 1985 book on Supreme Court appointments, included a 19-word passage that was lifted verbatim—without attribution—from an earlier text by a University of Virginia political scientist...
...Bottum??s article led University President Lawrence H. Summers and Law School Dean Elena Kagan to issue a joint statement finding that Tribe’s failure to attribute the passage to its original source constituted “a significant lapse in proper academic practice.” Although Harvard did not formally punish Tribe—who remains widely respected in the field of constitutional law—the enormous influence of Bottum??s exposé should have earned it a place in this anthology...
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