Word: wildes
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...responses of Little Brown and their author Kaayva [sic] Viswanathan deeply troubling and disingenuous. Ms. Viswanathan's claim that similarities in her phrasing were 'unconscious' or 'unintentional' is suspect. We have documented more than forty passages from Kaavya Viswanathan's recent publication 'How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life' that contain identical language and/or common scene or dialogue structure from Megan McCafferty's first two books, 'Sloppy Firsts' and 'Second Helpings.' This extensive taking from Ms. McCafferty's books is nothing less than an act of literary identity theft...
...statement released through her publisher, Little, Brown and Company, Viswanathan apologized to McCafferty and said that future printings of her recently-released novel, “How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life,” will be revised “to eliminate any inappropriate similarities...
...Bears wasted no time getting on the board in the nightcap, quickly chasing Crimson starter Mike Dukovich from the game in the first inning. Dukovich threw two wild pitches and allowed two walks, two singles, and a triple in the inning. The Bears scored two runs before Dukovich was removed in favor of sophomore Brad Unger, who struck out left fielder Adjatay Nyadjroh to end the inning. Although Harvard would strike back with a run of its own in the bottom of the first, the Bears would not relinquish the lead...
...that some literal copying actually occurred here," Min Jung Lee, the assistant general counsel of Random House, wrote in an April 22 letter to Carol Ross, the general counsel of Little, Brown, which released Viswanathan’s debut novel “How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life” this month...
...statement released through her publisher, Little, Brown and Company, Viswanathan apologized to McCafferty and said that future printings of her recently-released novel, "How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life," will be revised "to eliminate any inappropriate similarities...