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...truth universally acknowledged that a competent employer must be in want of a Harvard student. But inside that 400-year-old veneer built by the accomplishments of Harvard alumni, cracks exist—cracks that have recently gained international media scrutiny. Kaavya Viswanathan ’08 allegedly plagiarized passages in her bestselling novel, “How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life”; Nick B. Sylvester ’04 falsified aspects of a Village Voice article, “Do You Wanna Kiss Me?”; Eugene M. Plotkin...
Four days after Kaavya Viswanathan ’08 came under scrutiny for possible plagiarism in her novel "How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life," her publisher yesterday asked stores across the country to pull the book from their shelves...
...sophomore’s novel contains numerous passages that are strikingly similar to those found in two books by Megan F. McCafferty, "Sloppy Firsts" and "Second Helpings." In a statement on Monday Viswanathan apologized to McCafferty and said that any similarities between the texts were "unintentional and unconscious...
...Viswanathan also said Monday that she will revise her book to take out all of the "inappropriate similarities" between "Opal Mehta" and McCafferty’s novels...
...career, I am, first and foremost, a writer," McCafferty said. "So I look forward to getting back to work and moving on, and hope Ms. Viswanathan...