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“Orange High graduation remarks plagiarized."

Who did the plagiarizing?

"Orange County school board Chairman Keith Cook plagiarized much of the speech he delivered at Orange High School’s 2004 graduation ceremony.

The speech, which incorporated lessons from the movie “Titanic,” was virtually identical to a 1998 speech given by Donna Shalala, then U.S. secretary of health and human services. Cook did not attribute his remarks, made Friday night at UNC’s Smith Center, to Shalala.

When asked Tuesday by a Herald-Sun reporter where he got his speech, Cook said, “I wrote that."

Oops, got caught.

Via The Obscure Store.

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