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Plagiarism or Not? Incriminating Passages from Jill Abramson's New Book

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Former New York Times executive editor and current Harvard professor Jill Abramson has been accused of plagiarism by multiple sources for passages in her new book, Merchants of Truth. Here are some of the passages in question:

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