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Michael Thomas, author of the Midaswatch blog, points his readers to a good piece by Jonathan Yardley on the Doris Kearns Goodwin plagiarism brouhaha. Yardley notes that Goodwin has endeavored mightly to change the terms of her offense from plagiarism to "borrowing," and has been somewhat sucessful. Needless to say, Yardley doesn't buy it.