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Disgraced Cambridge professor appears to have stolen memoir title from old TV show

The same credentials, charity record, plagiarism and life story that Cambridge, Simon & Schuster -- and years of fawning press coverage -- were all accepted without checking. It all fell apart the moment one outside academic actually looked into it. The institutions' first instinct was to defend the man and attack the people asking questions, caling them conservative “activists” and racists.