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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's pretty easy to spot plagiarism if you know the student. It's interesting that the student newspaper she was news editor for broke the story, I would assume some of her fellow students looked at the speech and could tell she didn't actually write parts of it. Then all you need to do is google the parts that don't look correct.

Duke has been known as a rich kids from the northeast school for a while. [/quote]

But would google have caught this? Is the text of the 2014 speech posted online? I still want to know the chain of events that discovered this. So many speeches are unmemorable, it’s really surprising that it was someone who heard them both in real time. Maybe it was someone in her friend/family circle. [/quote]

It is online. No idea how she zeroed in on this speech and found it, but with a name and date it's now easy to google.  It's hard to say, knowing the truth, but the phrasing is pretty clunky and doesn't fully translate.  Like would wearing Duke paraphernalia really speed someone through a customs security line?  To the extent that she tells stories that just don't ring true, someone might start poking around.  Is it possible the old speech is better known in international communities? in which case she may imagine she has a unique awareness of it, but someone else in the audience would too.[/quote]

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