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• A pain in the arts

  "Some passages, it has been claimed, seem to have been lifted with only minor tweaking. Where Okri has testacles, Mme Beyala tweaks them into private parts."
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  In the recent scandal at the New York Times, involving the wretched Jayson Blair, the subject at issue is widely perceived as plagiarism. Blair plundered other reporter's work, often written on site, to construct his own articles written at his desk.
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  Yesterday, the 61-year-old writer James Mackay was at home in Glasgow, shocked and outraged, over a plagiarism attack which could cost him his reputation and thousands of pounds.