Word: kaavya
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...Completely unintentional and unconscious” was how Kaavya Viswanathan classified her theft of over 45 phrases from novels by Megan F. McCafferty. Hardly some vague, borderline case of plagiarism, this was consistent and barely disguised pilfering...
...Kaavya Viswanathan did not fall, as some would posit, from the glorious perch of a published author. Kaavya’s roost was atop the same rickety tower of meritocracy that so many of us built on our way to our Harvard admission...
...College is looking into allegations of plagiarism against novelist Kaavya Viswanathan ’08, but it has not commenced an “investigation” as the news service Bloomberg reported yesterday, a spokesman for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) said yesterday...
...truth universally acknowledged that a competent employer must be in want of a Harvard student. But inside that 400-year-old veneer built by the accomplishments of Harvard alumni, cracks exist—cracks that have recently gained international media scrutiny. Kaavya Viswanathan ’08 allegedly plagiarized passages in her bestselling novel, “How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life”; Nick B. Sylvester ’04 falsified aspects of a Village Voice article, “Do You Wanna Kiss Me?”; Eugene M. Plotkin...
Four days after Kaavya Viswanathan ’08 came under scrutiny for possible plagiarism in her novel "How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life," her publisher yesterday asked stores across the country to pull the book from their shelves...