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...baby, names him Homer Heche Laffoon. Somewhere, Ellen has to be asking herself: was Anne faking it all along? Losers BILL CLINTON Ex-Prez would have been convicted, says final report. And all this time, America has been wasting its attention on the war on terrorism DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN Historian quits Pulitzer jury because of plagiarism problems. It turns out she also borrowed that accent from the Kennedys TED KOPPEL Anchor is peeved when his network reveals it wants Letterman. Koppel consoles himself by saying he always wanted to work at PBS anyway...
...seems that well-known historian and Harvard University Overseer Doris Kearns Goodwin consulted many sources while writing her book The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys, but regrettably, one resource she did not consult was the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Handbook for Students. If she had, she would have been reminded that, “Students should always take great care to distinguish their own ideas and knowledge from information derived from sources…Whenever ideas or facts are derived from a student’s reading and research or from a student’s own writings, the sources...
Goodwin’s plagiarism of sentences, nearly verbatim, from source materials is inexcusable. As an Overseer, Goodwin is a leader of an academic community, the foundation of which is integrity in independent scholarship. As a leader, she should recognize that her action is unbecoming an Overseer and resign her post immediately, sending the clear message to the campus that she understands the gravity of the offense she has committed...
...this were one accidental case of incorrect citation, the situation may warrant a different response. But as Goodwin herself has recognized, the unattributed use of sources goes far beyond borrowing isolated phrases from Lynne McTaggart’s Kathleen Kennedy: Her Life and Times, as Goodwin originally claimed, but rather involved many more uncited works...
...Goodwin did not return repeated calls for comment...