she’d already made such a spectacle of herself. to engage in plagiarism— in academia of all places… and while under such scrutiny? for the life of me, I simply cannot fathom what could possibly have been going through this person’s mind when they made such fantastical lapses in judgement.
It's not like she just went on a plagiarism spree after the recent allegations. The article makes it sound like there have been questions about her academic integrity for quite some time.
I see… I’ve read a little more about this. it seems to me now that she’s being put through rather a lot of scrutiny, perhaps more so even than many past Presidents of Harvard. They’re really putting her through the wringer.