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Forget Sam Ongeri's exam cheat detector slip-ons. In fact those poor kids have not even completed the first chapter of the Cheating Handbook. Palaver agrees with Prof Ongeri, all cheats should get the very, very short end of the stick. In fact, in Hungary, allegations that their President, Mr Pal Schmitt, lifted sections of studies by renowned scholars and purported it to be his doctoral thesis, have cost him his job. While you wonder how a chap can lose a job as prezzo, then pity Mr Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg. Last year, Karl was chucked from Cabinet as German Defence minister following allegations that he ‘xeroxed’ someone else’ doctoral thesis. Strange times indeed.

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