Dateline: Teacher's College. In what is tentatively being dubbed the "2008 Madonna Constantine Plagiarism Incident Slash Witch Hunt Slash General Racism Shitshow", the Times is starting the morning off by informing us that Professor Constantine will be keeping her job. The New Republic takes a surprisingly un-touchy-feely position and, frankly, goes on a bit of a rant. In the Sun, find a defense from two of her students.

Bringing up the rear, the Post puts the word "noose" in scare quotes, although all those photos were enough to convince Bwog that the noose did, at least, physically exist. However, they also took the time to track down one of her alleged victims, Christine Yeh, now teaching at the University of San Francisco since a 2006 departure from Columbia.

According to a TC spokesperson, the details of Professor Constantine's punishment are not public.


Not to be outdone, Madonna has hopped on the African-orphan-hugging bandwagon with a $3 million donation to J. Sachs' Millennium Voices foundation, which will help villages in the malaria-infested African nation of Malawi. The rocker chalks up her newfound generosity to having had kids of her own, as well as the giving spirit of Jewish mysticism--a new orphan care center will have programs based on Spirituality for Kids, the Kabbalah children's program.

Sachs chides celebrity-shy critics: "Of course there are no doubt people who on a fling say something, but that's not what Madonna's doing, it's not what Angelina's doing, it's not what Bono's doing...the cynics are just wrong. They don't get it."

Bwog cheers! And wants the Olsen twins to be next.

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