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...Meat’s death. Yesterday, Lussier became the bearer of news that she called “literally tragic.” In the morning, she got a call from her father, who is a friend of Meat’s extended family. They belong to the same tribe, the Ojibwe. Lussier’s father told her that Meat had died. “I asked him if he was sure, and he was sure. I cried really hard.” In the Ojibwe language which she and Meat once spoke to each other, Meat would have...
...local council in the Pakistani border state of Punjab ordered the gang rape of Mukhtar Mai in 2002 after her brother was seen walking with a girl from a rival tribe. After Mai spoke out, the government gave her $8,300 in compensation, which she used to found a school to educate young women in Pakistan. She has gained international acclaim largely due to columns penned by New York Times op-ed writer Nicholas D. Kristof ’81, whose readers have sent Mai over $130,000 through this past November.Kristof, a former Crimson editor, has written that...
...funny.” In 2004, Charles Ogletree felt compelled to publicly apologize for “serious errors” when it was reported that six paragraphs from his book were lifted almost verbatim from a 2001 collection of essays by Jack Balkin. And just weeks later, Laurence Tribe ’62 issued a mea culpa when it was found that a 19-word passage in a book of his had previously appeared in a another scholarly work. Tribe’s apology seemed to do the trick: Harvard bestowed the prestigious title of “University...
After all, allegations of plagiarism have plagued some of Harvard’s most famous professors in recent years, from Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz to Harvard constitutional scholar Laurence H. Tribe ’62. And of course, there was the recent scandal of economics professor Andrei Shleifer ’82, who was taken to court last year for allegedly attempting to defraud the U.S. government...
...September 2004, Loeb University Professor Laurence H. Tribe ’62 admitted that he did not properly credit another professor’s work in his 1985 book “God Save This Honorable Court.” Allegations of plagiarism were leveled by The Weekly Standard, which wrote that one 19-word passage in Tribe’s book is found verbatim in the 1974 “Justices and Presidents” by Henry J. Abraham. In a statement at the time, Tribe said, “I have immediately written an apology to Professor Abraham...