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...Brian Vickers, a literature professor at the University of London, came to his conclusion after using plagiarism-detection software - as well as his own expertise - to compare writing patterns between Edward III and Shakespeare's body of work. Plagiarism software isn't new; college professors have been using it to catch cheats for more than a decade. It is, however, growing increasingly sophisticated, enabling a scholar like Vickers to investigate the provenance of unattributed works of literature. With a program called Pl@giarism, Vickers detected 200 strings of three or more words in Edward III that matched phrases in Shakespeare...
...stage yet that we can be sure of authorship without attacking it from many different angles," such as investigating metrics, classical allusions and signature abbreviations. "One of the problems of this sort of thing is that it's not easy to pronounce on the evidence without doing all the work again yourself...
...hoped,” said varsity heavyweight captain Christine Baugh. “I think everyone went out and raced as hard as they could, and it’s just important for us to see where we are today and use that as a springboard to work harder...
...Results in the fall don’t always tell us the story of the results in the spring,” Cartwright agreed. “The fall season is intended to give us the incentive to work harder and be motivated for the spring...
...fact is that this is a word game. It isn't a discussion of the 'second stimulus,' " says Jennifer Psaki, a White House spokeswoman. "This needs to be an ongoing discussion between the President and his economic team about new ideas and ways to get people back to work." (Watch a video about the "Unemployment Olympics" in New York City...