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...bore more than a passing resemblance to my book, a rather unhappy realization for me,” she says. “There were many elements of the plot, similarities in language, tone, images. There was no word for word plagiarism. And I know you can make arguments about copying literary form and that Romeo and Juliet can appear in many different forms but this was not that simple a story...
...looked as messy as a doctor’s. Starobin explained that she was a doctor, a doctor of literature, and also an author. The amiable clerk asked if any of her work was published, which led to a discussion of King’s pilfering of her vampire plot...
...Evidence linking Hekmatyar to the attacks has yet to be produced and some Western diplomats dismiss the "coup plot" as a government attempt to sideline rivals ahead of the June 22 'loya jirga,' a national assembly that will choose an interim government to rule for the next two years. Even if the Hekmatyar threat is exaggerated, Karzai must still deal with internal splits. "The cabinet is deeply divided," says the interim leader's adviser. "But that's the government given to him by the U.N. in Bonn and he has to work with it." A power struggle between Defense Minister...
...weeks since he was charged with conspiracy, it appears they have hardly tried. Sources close to the case tell TIME that federal prosecutors haven't pressured the alleged terrorist, who is now behind bars in Alexandria, Va., to find out what he knows about the Sept. 11 terror plot. Capital punishment is often used as a threat to extract information, but the government has not played that card since charging Moussaoui in December, the sources say. "They know there are others out there who were involved in planning the attacks and that they haven't solved this case," says...
...poor girl hooking up with a member of a rich brat-bully pack at an ?lite Taipei high school. (Mainland Chinese authorities were less enamored, saying it misled young viewers; Beijing recently banned the show after a few episodes aired on some local television stations.) The TV plot was adapted from a Japanese manga comic called Hana Yori Dango (Men Are Better Than Flowers). Chai, a variety-show producer, handpicked the boys from an audition of 200 (minimum qualifications: good looks and a height of 1.8 m) and dubbed them F4, short for the "Flower Four...