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...Nightlife can mean anything. We can provide you a very valuable experience that will hit your soul and your mind and send you home sober." PRINCE SULTAN BIN SALMAN BIN ABDUL AZIZ, head of Saudi Arabia's Supreme Commission for Tourism, announcing that the government would begin issuing nonreligious foreign-tourist visas for the country, where alcohol is illegal and nightclubs are scarce...
...Crimson reported yesterday that “Opal Mehta” also contained similarities to Meg Cabot’s 2000 novel “The Princess Diaries.” The New York Times noted further parallels between Viswanathan’s book and two works by Salman Rushdie and Sophie Kinsella. Viswanathan said in a statement last week that the novel would be revised “to eliminate any inappropriate similarities.” Three days later, Little, Brown asked bookstores to pull “Opal Mehta” off their shelves, waiting until yesterday...
While the newly-uncovered similarities between “Opal Mehta” and works by Salman Rushdie and two other authors are not as striking as the previously revealed parallels to Megan McCafferty’s books, the allegations raise fresh questions about the originality of Viswanathan’s novel...
...second book under contract.” The Crimson reported late last month that Viswanathan’s novel contained striking similarities to two earlier books by Megan F. McCafferty. The New York Times has highlighted further similarities between “Opal Mehta” and books by Salman Rushdie and Sophie Kinsella. And yesterday, The Crimson revealed further parallels between Viswanathan’s work and Meg Cabot’s 2000 novel “The Princess Diaries.” Pietsch had previously said that “Opal Mehta” would be withdrawn from...
...appears to have borrowed passages from Salman Rushdie’s “Haroun and the Sea of Stories” and Meg Cabot’s “The Princess Diaries.” The New York Times also reported similarities between “Opal Mehta” and Sophie Kinsella’s “Can You Keep a Secret?” In each of the cases, the passages in question are short but contain similar rhymes and descriptions...