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The odds are pretty long that Melania Trump's speech wasn't plagiarized, Tabitha M. Powledge writes, but does the rest of the world even care about that? "The Melania/Michelle event spawned posts arguing that copying the work of others is no big deal in many countries, and sometimes even encouraged. The idea that appropriating the words and work of others is sinful is a recent and specifically American invention." Also, norovirus afflicts the RNC California delegation.