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Kaavya Viswanathan ’08 admitted yesterday to borrowing language from two books by Megan F. McCafferty, though the student novelist said that "any phrasing similarities between her works and mine were completely unintentional and unconscious...
...addition to his political and academic careers, Ignatieff is a former BBC broadcaster and an award-winning novelist...
SAMANTHA POWER A Harvard University professor, her book on genocide won a Pulitzer Prize in 2003 I nominate Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk. He has acknowledged his homeland's genocide against the Armenians and nearly got himself arrested before the Turks decided their commitment to and pride in their greatest writer exceeded a commitment to killers who died almost a century ago. It could bring a cultural change. Also George Clooney, for the obvious reasons, and the students who led the divestment movement on campuses for Darfur...
...Class of 2006 will soon be treated to its very own “Hour with Jim Lehrer.” The noted news anchor and novelist will be the principal speaker for Harvard’s 355th Commencement Afternoon Exercises on June 8. The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA), responsible for choosing each year’s afternoon speaker, selected Lehrer for his “objectivity and intelligence” and the respect he inspires, according to the announcement in the Harvard Gazette yesterday. In his over 40 years as a journalist, Lehrer has won numerous awards, including...
...DIED. JOHN MCGAHERN, 71, Irish novelist whose early assaults on Ireland's religious and sexual hypocrisy were long shunned at home; in Dublin. After his 1965 novel The Dark was banned and he was forced out of his teaching job, McGahern moved abroad, living in England, France and the U.S. It was only after he resettled in his native Leitrim in the early 1970s that Ireland began to cherish his work, recognizing itself in his quiet portraits of a country riven by the pressures of the modern world...