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...Sept. 14, Tribe posted a message on Velvel’s blog, calling “the problem of writers, political office–seekers, judges and other high government officials passing off the work of others as their own” a “phenomenon of some significance.” This prompted a reader to send an anonymous tip to the Weekly Standard pointing out the similarities between passages in Abraham’s book and Tribe?...
Velvel has excoriated Summers, Kagan, Tribe, and Ogletree in his blog, www.velvelonnationalaffairs.com, calling Summers and Kagan “a combined embarassment...
...Summers’ failure to visit even the slightest punishment on Tribe, Summers’ gross failure to uphold intellectual integrity, is further proof—if further proof were needed—that he is not fit to lead Harvard or any university. He should be fired,” as should Kagan, Velvel wrote last April...
...Defenders of [Tribe and Ogletree] thus say either that it isn’t a case of plagiarism, since it was accidental, or that it’s a case of accidental plagiarism,” he wrote. “But even when it’s accidental, however, or the fault of a careless sub-researcher, the professor is responsible for the carelessness...
Hours after news broke widely that constitutional scholar Laurence H. Tribe ’62 had copied verbatim a 19-word passage in his 1985 book “God Bless This Honorable Court,” Tribe attended a reception at the residence of University President Lawrence H. Summers in honor of his recent appointment to the ranks of Harvard’s 19 elite University professors...