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...point, “Opal Mehta?? contains a 14-word passage that appears verbatim in McCafferty’s book “Sloppy Firsts...
...Viswanathan writes on page 46 of “Opal Mehta??: “In a truly masochistic gesture, they had decided to buy Diet Cokes from Mrs. Fields...
When The Crimson reached Viswanathan on her cell phone Saturday night and informed her of the similarities between “Opal Mehta?? and “Sloppy Firsts,” the sophomore said, “No comment. I have no idea what you are talking about...
Cabot Professor of English Literature and Professor of African and African American Studies Werner Sollors, after reviewing a list of 24 similar passages found in “Opal Mehta?? and “Sloppy Firsts,” wrote in an e-mail yesterday: “Judging by the excerpts you have assembled, and three department stores and 169 specialty shops later, it looks as though some strong version of anxiety of influence could clearly be detected in ‘How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life...
...Viswanathan’s insights are good, and her ability to broadcast them to an international audience of Organization Kids might have been a blessing. Unfortunately, though, “Opal Mehta?? squanders the opportunity to debunk the mightily popular myth that, as Opal says early in the book, “Harvard just about equals success in the world”—and nothing is more important than success...