[Nyani Ngabu]

Liberals! liberals! liberals. They never cease to amaze me. This guy always acts like he is smarter than everybody else now look what he did!! Shameful.

NEW YORK (AP) — Columnist and TV host Fareed Zakaria has apologized for lifting several paragraphs by another writer for use in his column in Time magazine. His column has been suspended for a month.

Zakaria said in a statement Friday he made "a terrible mistake," adding, "It is a serious lapse and one that is entirely my fault."In a separate statement, Time spokesman Ali Zelenko said the magazine accepts Zakaria's apology, but would suspend his column for one month, "pending further review.""What he did violates our own standards for our columnists, which is that their work must not only be factual but original; their views must not only be their own but their words as well," Zelenko said.

Media reporters had noted similarities between passages in Zakaria's column about gun control that appeared in Time's Aug. 20 issue, and paragraphs from an article by Harvard University history professor Jill Lepore published in April in The New Yorker magazine.

In Zakaria's column, titled "The Case for Gun Control," he began one paragraph with the sentences: "Adam Winkler, a professor of constitutional law at UCLA, documents the actual history in 'Gunfight: The Battle Over the Right to Bear Arms in America.' Guns were regulated in the U.S. from the earliest years of the Republic."

A corresponding passage in Lenore's New Yorker essay, titled "Battleground America," begins: "As Adam Winkler, a constitutional-law scholar at U.C.L.A., demonstrates in a remarkably nuanced new book, 'Gunfight: The Battle Over the Right to Bear Arms in America,' firearms have been regulated in the United States from the start."

In Zakaria's statement, he apologized "unreservedly" to Lepore, as well as to his editors and readers.Besides serving as an editor-at-large at Time, Zakaria is a Washington Post columnist and the host of CNN's foreign-affairs show, "GPS." Source

[Bwa'Nchuchu]

Naona wewe ni bingwa wa kukosoa wengine lakini unashindwa kuona mapungufu yako.

Hujaonyesha hayo mapungufu kikamilifu.

Unapoonyesha mapungufu unatakiwa uonyeshe jinsi inavyotakiwa iwe. Sasa wewe unasema "naona kama unaandika Kiarabu"....kwa akili yako hapo umeonyesha mapungufu gani?

Kama una akili utaonyesha hayo mapungufu tena kwa lugha ya uhakika na si kutumia maneno kama "naona" ambayo hutumiwa zaidi kuelezea mitazamo na si mambo ya uhakika.

Sasa onyesha hicho Kiarabu unachokiona halafu uweke na jinsi ambavyo ilitakiwa iwe kwa Kiingereza. Kama una akili utaweza, kama huna hutaweza na mimi nadhani hutaweza. Thibitisha visivyo.

[Bwa'Nchuchu]

Rekebisha hiyo, naona imejaa ma-redundant.

Mzee, naona unaandika kama Kiarabu!

Naona wewe ni bingwa wa kukosoa wengine lakini unashindwa kuona mapungufu yako.

Wewe ni bingwa wa kuona tu! Hujiamini hata kidogo katika unachoandika.

[Rufiji]

Mtu unapoandika sentensi kama "usually that is how it is." Unategemea nini zaidi ya kuirekebisha?

[Bwa'Nchuchu]

Mtu unapoandika sentensi kama "usually that is how it is." Unategemea nini zaidi ya kuirekebisha?

Haya, onyesha basi jinsi ambavyo ilitakiwa iwe (ingawa najua huna uwezo huo.)