The principal at the small Clinton School for Writers and Artists is in trouble for allegedly reciting David Foster Wallace's famous commencement speech during the school's graduation without attribution, the Daily News reports. In the music biz, that's considered "sampling," but in the stuffy academic community they call it "plagiarism." During Friday's commencement, Joseph Anderson quoted at length from the late great Wallace's address, which was originally given at Kenyon College in 2005 and made Time magazine's Top 10 Commencement Speeches list. But as every great writer will tell ya, if you're gonna steal, steal from the best! Unfortunately for Mr. Anderson, the DOE doesn't see it that way. more ›

The New York Times reports that The Hong Kong government recently issued a report that eating certain kinds of dim sum, particularly those fried or cooked with copious amounts of fat and oil, should be avoided for health reasons. While this may seem like somewhat of a no-brainer, many are ignoring the warnings and eating the same dim sum they've been eating for years, arteries be damned. more ›

reviews Agnes Jaoui's Look At Me and the NY Times is also asking readers for questions for Jaoui, Pedro Almodovar, and Mike Leigh this week. Related: Newsday's John Anderson notes how this year's festival has controversial topics in it (priestly pedophilia in Almodovar's Bad Education, abortion in Leigh's Vera Drake). more ›