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...applied to anyone—young or old, rich or poor, black or white—struggling to forge a new path.Bottom Line: If you have ever been in a spelling bee, but had to walk away feeling dejected because you missed a letter in some obscure word, this movie is your deliverance. But don’t worry, if you’ve never even tried to spell ‘floccinaucinihilipilification,’ you’ll still enjoy...
...five department stores, and 170 specialty shops later.”) It is difficult to see how reading McCafferty’s novel “three or four times” several years ago, as Viswanathan says she did, would produce such a close match. As one letter to the Crimson noted, it’s hard to internalize italics.This is unquestionably a serious offense. Plagiarism is, as an executive at Random House put it, “literary identity theft,” a high crime in both the publishing and academic worlds. Particularly at an institution that...
...explanation for the similarities as “deeply troubling and disingenuous.” And Random House assistant general counsel Min Jung Lee told Little, Brown that his firm is “certain that some literal copying actually occurred,” according to an April 22 letter from Lee obtained by The Crimson...
...Things to Keep in a Fanny Pack.” “Top 15 Deucing Positions.” “15 Best Bell Lap Articles (some count twice!?!)” Pre-Frosh Weekend Although juicing high school seniors is probably still legal by the letter of the law, this year we felt slightly wrong about hosting a group of acne-faced high school guys and telling them that we would only provide them with alcohol or not excrete feces upon them when they were sleeping if they successfully brought back a gaggle of D.T.B. pre-frosh...
...With all the publicity surrounding the rape case, the university is apparently concerned that it will lose some prospective freshmen. TIME has obtained a letter to Duke alumni dated Wednesday, April 26, from Dean of Admissions Christoph Guttentag beseeching alumni to encourage accepted incoming freshmen to choose Duke. The letter, say alumni, is unprecedented, and states, "I believe that a final contact from one of our alumni to an admitted student... who have not yet responded to our offer of admission... might make the difference in having a student choose Duke...