When Annette Schavan, Germany's minister for science and education, resigned on 9 February, even politicians from opposition parties called the move "tragic." She is the latest in a string of officials here who have stepped down amid plagiarism allegations. But Schavan's case, centering on her 1980 dissertation in education studies, was less clear-cut than others, and it has opened up a debate in German academia.
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