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...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 aspires to embody veritas each and every day, Viswanathan’s apparent misrepresentation and her suspect...
...There were multiple times when there was a really tough case, and I was glad that the person on the Scalia case was Joel because he was a good person to work with—smart, hard-working, dedicated and serious,” he said...
...life I've enjoyed surprising people. People think I'm sooo serious and always thinking about foreign policy - and while I spend a great deal of time thinking about foreign policy, it's not all I do. I did enjoy appearing on the Gilmore Girls. I had my own trailer, my own hairdresser, the whole thing. And what I found in acting is that it was actually quite hard because you had to follow a script, totally, exactly, with every preposition and intonation. And so I think I'm better being Secretary of State...
...Jordan would be the highest-ranking officer to face criminal charges so far, and the potential accusations against him, outlined by his defense lawyer, are more serious than those lodged against his immediate superior, Col. Thomas Pappas, who was the top-ranking military intelligence officer at Abu Ghraib. Pappas faced only administrative sanctions: an $8,000 fine and a written reprimand for dereliction; he remains on active duty, though he is expected to retire, in part because of his diminished chances for promotion. Pappas has also been granted immunity to testify on behalf of the defense in the trial...
...some responsibility by virtue of their command status. Other investigations have said that Jordan was inexperienced in interrogation and intelligence collection, often deferring decisions to lower-ranking soldiers under his command to whom he provided inadequate supervision. The Army has offered no explanation as to why Pappas faces less serious charges than Jordan, or why the charges against Jordan are only being brought now, when those against Pappas were settled last year...