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Human-Sized Maya Mask Found in Mexico The stucco sculpture—dated to between 300 B.C. and 250 A.D.—probably depicts a deity or elite member of society A giant Mayan mask as tall as a person has been revealed at an archaeological site in the Mexican state of Yucatán. The stucco mask of Ucanha being worked on by archaeologists The mask, which depicts the face of an unknown deity or elite person, was sculpted from the building material stucco and dates back to a period in Maya history known as the Late Preclassic (about 300 B.C. — A.D. 250), according to the news...

It would be ‘clericalism’ to keep plagiarist-priest Rosica in media posts: Catholic Register columnist “There is no doubt that students, professors and journalists with a far less extensive record of plagiarism would face maximum penalties,” he wrote.  “So it would it would be wrong to say that Fr. Rosica, because he is a priest, should be given privileges that a lay student, professor or journalist would not be given,” he continued.  Rosica is CEO of Canada's Salt + Light Media Foundation. He has also served as an English-language assistant to the Vatican's press office. De Souza disclosed that Rosica had stopped...

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<p>Sen. Barack Obama has been in the news for borrowing parts of a speech by Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick recently; but has he also borrowed some of his famous oratory from California First Lady Maria Shriver?</p> <p>Shriver, in numerous speeches given throughout California on women's issues and political issues -- including her annual Women's Conference -- has long employed a signature phrase cited from a Hopi Indian prayer: "We are the ones we have been waiting for.''</p>

"Do your own work.—The subjects which many of our ministers present before the people are not half as connected and as clear and strong in argument as they should be. They profess to be teachers of the Word, but they sadly neglect to search the Scriptures for themselves. They are content to use the arguments which are prepared in pamphlets and books, and which others have labored earnestly to search out; but they are not willing to tax their minds to study them out for themselves. In order to make full proof of their ministry, those who open the Word...

Rep. Sherrod Brown wrote to Sen. Mike DeWine last Friday, voicing concern about Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito's labor record. Brown's language was crisp -- and was plagiarized. Roughly 90 percent of what Brown, an Avon Democrat, wrote in his letter was lifted from an Internet posting by a blogger, as Brown's office acknowledged Monday when The Plain Dealer presented the similarities. Brown had not credited the blogger, Nathan Newman of NathanNewman.org, or any other source. For instance, Newman, an attorney and labor and community activist, posted this on his blog Nov. 1: "What is striking about Alito is that...

DENVER — The University of Colorado has dropped its investigation into the American Indian heritage of the professor who came under fire for likening Sept. 11 victims to an infamous Nazi, the professor himself says. Full article at http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,166489,00.html

DENVER - A 12-year-old audio tape of an angry answering machine message left by Ward Churchill has surfaced. Much of the audio is unintelligible, but a person identifies himself as Ward Churchill on the tape. The message was left on Vernon Bellecourt's answering machine in 1993. Bellecourt is a leader of the American Indian Movement. Churchill severed ties with the organization. Bellecourt said he felt threatened by the message, but he never filed a police report. You can listen to a portion of it by clicking at right. The transcript is as follows: "You siphoned a half million ripped off...

Mike Barnicle, the hard-hitting veteran journalist whose lively commentary has engaged and informed New Englanders for almost 30 years, is returning to the Boston newspaper scene as a columnist for the Boston Herald, Publisher Patrick J. Purcell announced today. Purcell said that Barnicle, who has been a columnist for the New York Daily News for the past five years, serves as a commentator on national and local news programs and hosts his own radio talk show, will join the Boston Herald as a featured columnist every Tuesday and Thursday, beginning tomorrow. ``It's not every day that you have an opportunity...

Plagiarist also falsified sources By Tom Bailey Jr. baileytom@gomemphis.com April 24, 2003 A mysterious writer for the Tri-State Defender not only swiped stories from other newspapers and put his name on them, but fabricated sources in other articles. A journalist described by the weekly newspaper as freelance writer "Larry Reeves" extensively quoted people whose existence can't be verified. It happened in at least five stories over the past eight years, according to a review by The Commercial Appeal. The stories were published in the Tri-State Defender or its sister newspapers, the New Pittsburgh Courier and Michigan Chronicle. The made-up sources...