[lit-ideas] Re: Top politician toppled by plagiarism
- From: Judith Evans <judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2011 14:22:03 +0000 (GMT)
Yes. I read it somewhere!
Odds are Saadi Ghadafi won't follow his example...
Judy Evans, Cardiff
--- On Tue, 1/3/11, cblists@xxxxxxxx <cblists@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: cblists@xxxxxxxx <cblists@xxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Top politician toppled by plagiarism
> To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Tuesday, 1 March, 2011, 14:05
> The German Defence Minister
> Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg has *finally* been forced to
> resign after he was found to have copied large parts of his
> 2006 university doctorate thesis.
>
> He had tried in the past couple of weeks to hold on to his
> position, labelling the whole affair as 'abstruse' even
> after it had been determined that about half of the 450+
> page dissertation had been plagiarized. The Chancellor
> of Germany had also tried to defend keeping him on, arguing
> that she had hired him as defence minister, not research
> assistant.
>
> This morning he finally announced his resignation.
>
> See an account in English on the BBC site:
>
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-12608083
>
> Here's the site of the English-language version of the
> story from _Der Spiegel_:
>
> http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,748383,00.html
>
> Chris Bruce,
> always giving credit
> where credit is due,
> in Kiel, Germany
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