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...Standard’s Oct. 4 story prompted Summers and Kagan to convene a three-member task force to investigate the plagiarism allegations against Tribe. One member, former University President Derek C. Bok, said yesterday that the task force met approximately a half dozen times last fall and issued a report to Summers and Kagan in December...
After reviewing the task force report, Summers and Kagan concluded that Tribe’s book “contained various brief passages and phrases that echo or overlap with material in the Abraham book...
According to Summers and Kagan, “the unattributed material related more to matters of phrasing than to fundamental ideas...
...statement from Summers and Kagan yesterday did not divulge whether Tribe would face any disciplinary action in connection with the incident. “In line with usual University practice, we intend no further comment on the matter,” Summers and Kagan said. But Tribe’s assistant said yesterday that “there was no sanction or reprimand beyond the [University] statement...
...think that both [Summers] and Kagan should be fired. To think that there is no punishment for an obvious serious admitted intellectual transgression is just terrible...