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3) How do you feel about the word "cult" in the title?
The Cuft of Celebrity Professors
Celebrity professors are a good thing. Really!
Few species have as many natural enemies as the celebrity professor. Other academics envy their money and fame; journalists dislike their cleverer-than-thou airs; and everybody hates their determination to have it all the security of academic tenure and the glitz of media stardom. So these are happy days for the rest of us. Plagiarism , lying , waffie-mongering: hardly a week goes by without some academic celebrity or other biting the dust , his reputatlO n m tatters. Stephen Ambrose l was arguably America's favorite historian , a man who wrote bestsellers faster than most people read them: An inspirer of Hollywood blockbusters , he can also claim credit for two of the best presidential biographies around , on Eisenhower and Nixon. But it now tums out that five of his books contain extensive "borrowings" from other historians.
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(whom she knew) or Abraham Lincoln (the subject of her next blockbuster). Her handling of the plagiarism charges against her has arguably been worse than the charges themselves. In the late 1980s she quie t1 y mollified one of her chief victims , paying her some money. Now she explains her behavior by the fact that she relied on handwritten notes something other historians have managed to do without such dire consequences. Amazingly , Ms. Goodwin remains on Harvard's board of overseers , despite the fact that she committed sins that might get an undergraduate expelled.
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The hunt is now on for the next serial plagiarist. Meanwhile , other charges
are also being hurled at celebrity professors. Take compulsive lying. Joseph