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To: Labyrinthos

Kennedy I believe was thrown out of Harvard for cheating, IIRC. He later went to U. VA law school were as far as I know he only had a series of moving violations (his driving career is long and checkered).

Biden has always been associated with plagiarism. I truthfully don't know if he was actually thrown out for it, and if so what school and what level of education. Now that I think of it, IIRC, didn't Biden plagiarize a speech when he was already in office? Didn't he give a speech as a politician that had been written by someone else? If so, then there would be no question of getting thrown out - just the question of being caught.


20 posted on 09/14/2005 2:13:36 PM PDT by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten (Is your problem ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.)
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To: 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten; Rocky
I have a vague recollection of Biden getting tossed from some school, but I certainly could be wrong. I do know that his presidential ambitions came to a screeching halt when he was caught using a plagiarized stump speech.
25 posted on 09/14/2005 2:28:05 PM PDT by Labyrinthos
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To: 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten; Rocky

From Wikipedia:

"Controversy broke Biden's candidacy for the U.S. presidency in the 1988 Presidential campaign. He was alleged to have plagiarized a speech from British Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock. After Biden withdrew from the race, it was learned that he had correctly credited Kinnock on other occasions but failed to do so in an Iowa speech that was recorded and distributed to reporters by aides to Michael Dukakis, the eventual nominee. Dukakis fired the senior aide responsible, but the damage had already been done to Biden.

It was also alleged that Biden had plagiarized while in law school 20 years earlier in a first-year legal-writing class. Unaware of appropriate standards for legal briefs at the beginning of his legal training, Biden used a single footnote rather than multiple citations required to cite five pages from a legal article. Both Syracuse University Law School and the Delaware State Bar Association cleared Biden of plagiarism charges."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Biden



28 posted on 09/14/2005 2:33:30 PM PDT by Labyrinthos
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To: 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
didn't Biden plagiarize a speech when he was already in office?

He had the nerve to plagiarize a JFK speech, as if no one would notice. Towering ego!

Regards,
GtG

39 posted on 09/14/2005 3:35:06 PM PDT by Gandalf_The_Gray (I live in my own little world, I like it 'cuz they know me here.)
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