Mark my words … I mean what I say

0 Comments | Insight on the News, June 10, 2002 | by John Elvin

"While we cannot with confidence establish an upper bound on percentage of papers demonstrating plagiarism, one-eighth serves as a fairly solid lower bound."

--A University of Illinois/ Harvard University study advocates use of plagiarism-detecting software to scan student essays.

"The left-wing women's groups, Hollywood, the unions--they'd love it."

--An unidentified "senior Republican official" in a New York Daily News article on the possibility that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) might be the Democratic vice-presidential candidate in 2004 despite her promises to the contrary:

"Grinding, bumping, fondling, humping, licking, booty dancing, rolling, kicking, mashing, shoving, wallowing, disrobing, sexual kissing, freaking, jacking and whatever else a chaperone deems improper or indecent."

--Prohibited behaviors at social functions at Walnutt Hills High School in Cincinnati as schools attempt to deal with popular dances that mimic sexual activity.