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Dear Rush,

Your article on plagiarism could not have been more timely for me. It is one of our key focuses in the … management education course in which I teach, but it is an even greater challenge in the Ethics for a Global Economy course I teach … to Lebanese students in our International Programs unit. The academic culture and lack of copyright laws are so different in Lebanon that understanding the concept of plagiarism is as foreign as we professors who “profess” the concept of academic integrity. Thanks to your article, in one blatant case of a plagiarized assignment, I instructed the student to visit the Institute’s Web site and read your article and then advise me if she would like to resubmit her assignment.

Richard Pilarski
Saratoga Springs, New York, U.S.A.