I'm suprised this isn't on the LoT yet. (If it is, I didn't see the thread--I haven't been here for a few days and there's a lot of new stuff.)
Basically, this 19-year old Harvard student and author of some chick-lit book that I never intend to read is accused of plagiarising 40+ passages from 2 other books. She claims that this is a genuine mistake, and that she must have "internalized" those books more than she knew.
I think she's a liar.
Here's a link to the story in the NYTimes from a couple days ago:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/25/bo...=1&oref=slogin