FF has held the Baron in high esteem, raving about him as the
Minister of good looks, misunderstood by
12 year old Japanese females who own more than 5 Vuitton bags, and
crushed upon by Helen Thomas, the ex-doyenne of the White House press corps. A man with either 9 or 10 first names, and a direct descendant of Bismarck at his heterosexual arm? The man to beat as successor to Chancellor Merkel? And now what?
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| The baron... |
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| ...with his wife, a née Bismarck |
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| After he met... |
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| ...Helen Thomas |
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Isn't he also a brilliant academic, with a Ph.D. thesis of the highest caliber, raking in a
summa cum laude, the highest Ph.D. honor in Germany? Well, "there's the rub." (Shakespeare, Hamlet's soliloquy) He's accused of plagiarizing. By our own standards, it's borderline, but the German standards rise by the minute,
as more and more phrases surface that he has obviously copied without mentioning the source. There's the rub. GOTCHA. He's still good-looking, but...
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| Can we still play "Doctor"? |
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Borderline? From Spiegel Online International:
By the end of last week, it had become clear that Guttenberg's dissertation contained dozens of passages that had been copied word-for-word from previously published works without adequate citation. He also included several pages from research notes he requested from parliamentary research assistants. It is not allowed for parliamentarians to use Bundestag research assistants for private business.
Glenn
Yes, you are right, we retract. We regret. We clarify. We misspoke. We never said it, in fact, we intended to say the opposite.
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