Time Suspends Fareed Zakaria for Plagiarism

Time suspended columnist Fareed Zakaria for plagiarism today after he apologized for swiping parts of a New Yorker piece by Jill Lepore on gun control, reports the Huffington Post. "I made a terrible mistake," Zakaria wrote in a statement published at Atlantic Wire. "It is a serious lapse and one that is entirely my fault. I apologize unreservedly to (Lepore), to my editors at Time, and to my readers." The magazine followed with its monthlong suspension of Zakaria, who also hosts a show at CNN. The conservative site NewsBusters first spotted the striking similarity between one long paragraph in particular, which quotes a UCLA professor. See for yourself here. (More Fareed Zakaria stories.)