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Plagiarism at least proclaims that some written words are valuable enough to steal. If the language is magnificent, the sin is comprehensible: the plagiarist could not resist. But what if the borrowed stuff is a flat, lifeless mess -- the road kill of passing ideas? In that case there is less risk, but surely no joy at all. (Does the plagiarist ever feel joy?) Safer to steal the duller stones. None but the dreariest specialists will remember them or sift for them in the muck...
Their response uses a tactic that lawyers call "arguing in the alternative." It's as if an attorney defended a client accused of stealing a car and denting the fender by saying, "He didn't steal the car, and if he did, the fender isn't dented, and if it is dented, it was dented before my client stole...
...that generally benefits the U.S. economy. "We have nothing against Mexicans," says John Machan, a local courier. "Many of them are hard workers, and there should be a way for them to work -- but then go back home. A lot of the others don't come to work. They steal, break into people's homes, bring drugs." San Diego police say they have no evidence that illegal aliens commit more crimes then the general population...
...justice, women are less concerned about abstract rights or wrongs and more interested in finding compromises that maintain the social contract. In her provocative 1982 book In a Different Voice, Gilligan offered an example. A boy and a girl, both 11, were asked whether a poor man should steal a drug that would save his wife's life. Yes, said the boy, because human life is worth more than property. No, said the girl, who suggested that he borrow the money or work out a payment schedule with the druggist. Her reasoning: If the man stole, he might...
Saturn may also lure customers away from other GM products, especially its highly successful Geo line, which is made with partners Suzuki and Toyota. "They're not going to steal market share from the Japanese," says Paul Lienert, editor of Automotive Industries' Insider, a trade newsletter. "It's more likely that they'll cannibalize other GM products, so for the company it will be a net wash in market share...