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...writings regularly cribbed exact words or concepts from other people's work without proper attribution, although King usually cited the original source at least once. The prime example: King's doctoral dissertation in theology, which drew material from a dissertation written three years earlier by another student. By a "strict definition," in Carson's cautious phrase, this was plagiarism...
That point was made emphatically last week by Boston University. When King was enrolled, the school declared, rules for citation were "strict, explicit and explicitly made known to all graduate students." The university has formed a blue-ribbon committee to investigate the alleged infraction. At worst, the school could strip King of his doctorate posthumously. But even though the revelations may tarnish King's reputation, they hardly diminish his - courageous and inspirational accomplishments in helping to achieve racial justice for millions of black Americans...
Turkey finds itself in a particularly painful bind. Exporters had expected to sell Baghdad $600 million worth of goods, mainly iron, steel and food products. Since the U.S. and most European countries impose strict quotas on some of these imports and the markets for others are saturated, Ankara estimates that 75% of the products destined for Iraq will effectively be rendered worthless: no other foreign importer will be able to buy them...
...Republican Bob Martinez wanted to be re-elected Governor, he had an odd way of going about it. He infuriated taxpayers by reneging on his promise not to raise taxes. He alienated many women by trying to impose strict limits on abortion. That played into the hands of Lawton Chiles, a former three-term U.S. Senator, who surfaced after a 15-month hiatus from politics to mount a corny but believable populist bid for the state capitol...
Oregon. Voters defeated strict new recycling standards for product packaging by 57% to 43%. A $2 million opposition campaign funded largely by plastics, chemical and oil companies warned that business would pass the cost of packaging changes on to consumers...