A big fat apology from Kaavya Viswanathan.

I so don't buy it.  I'm sure that she's sorry that she did it.  Well, sorry that she got caught.  I'm sure that she was in over her head, under a lot of pressure, etc., etc., etc.  But I refuse to believe that the plagiarism wasn't deliberate.

From the Globe:

Yesterday, Viswanathan acknowledged she ''read and loved" both of McCafferty's books while she was in high school and ''may have internalized her work" -- and clearly, the parallels are striking.

MAY HAVE??!  For future reference, "internalize" does not equal "copy entire passages and change the brand names in the hopes that no one will notice".  Sheesh.