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Crimson Editorial Chairs Michael B. Broukhim ’07 and Matthew S. Meisel ’07 initially published a brief editors’ note on Monday, which said that Ilyinsky??s column should have cited Slate as a source for its quotations from “The Great Gatsby” and “Little Women.” But during the week, more questions about the column surfaced—in particular, allegations that Ilyinsky had not actually watched the football game from which she quoted—leading to the second editors?...
Word of the similarities between Ilyinsky??s article and the Slate piece was quickly picked up by Harvard-watching bloggers, who immediately recalled Kaavya Viswanathan ’08. The author’s debut novel was pulled from bookshelves last year after The Crimson found similarities between Viswanathan’s novel and several other books...
...Gate cached Ilyinsky??s column after the Boston Globe reported last night that The Crimson would delete the column from its website...
...Ilyinsky??s column also described an announcer’s use of the word “literally” during a televised football game—a quotation that also made it into a blog, linked from the Slate article, that tracks the use and misuse of the word...
...fourth similarity pointed out by the editors’ note, Ilyinsky??s piece and the Slate article both contain a paragraph of “Janus words”—words that can have opposite usages...