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"Harvard constitutional law scholar Laurence H. Tribe ’62 apologized yesterday for not properly crediting another professor’s work in his popular 1985 book God Save This Honorable Court, one day after a conservative political magazine accused him of plagiarism."

http://www.thecrimson.com/today/article503493.html

By Vancat (Vancat) on Monday, September 27, 2004 - 11:15 pm: Edit

HA. HA.

By Morgantruce (Morgantruce) on Monday, September 27, 2004 - 11:47 pm: Edit

"Lifting" a 19-word passage from a book that Tribe mentions as background literature in an appendix hardly qualifies as the crime of the century, but is enough to make him regret it and apologize.

Any serious writer knows how easily this can unintentionally happen---in spite of guarding against it. Few things could be as embarrassing.

Is there a difference between what Tribe did and a high school student who buys a paper off the internet? Yes... a huge difference!