The latest Teutonic text-trafficker understands that the best defense is a good offense.
Silvana Koch-Mehrin, forced out of high-profile political jobs by the discovery that she plagiarized her Heidelberg University dissertation, has blamed the university. “The dissertation commission granted me the title in 2000 being fully aware of the considerable weaknesses of my work,” she complained.
Heidelberg is at fault in the matter, in other words, because it enabled Koch-Mehrin’s unfortunate tendency to produce crap. Her hands were tied.
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(UD thanks Chris.)