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May 11, 2006
Yet Another Plagiarism Scandal from People Who Are Smart Enough to Know Better
"Poor, perfect Kaavya Viswanathan. When the first reporter, a kid from the Harvard Crimson, called about the dozens of cribbed passages, Kaavya stonewalled. 'I have no idea what you are talking about.' Later, her continuing, elaborate disingenuousness made it harder to pity her. McCafferty’s books 'spoke to me in a way few other books did . . . [I] can honestly say that any phrasing similarities between her works and mine were completely unintentional and unconscious.' Why’d she go on the Today show? To tell 'the truth.' Such chutzpah. But last week—as Little, Brown canceled the novel—the Times unearthed more appropriations from another girlocentric romantic comedy. And the Harvard Independent found that parts of Opal Mehta were also lifted from Born Confused, a novel about an Indian-American girl growing up in New Jersey. Such over-the-top chutzpah; no wonder she got into Harvard."
Hah! Read the rest of her lame excuses, misrepresentations and lies here.
Posted by Ali Massoud at May 11, 2006 05:33 PM
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