‘Times’ is over that whole plagiarism thing

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The ad people over at The New York Times Online must piss themselves every time they sign up a new sponsor for the site’s “article tools.” The little banners always seem to advertise a movie, and the way they get thrown in blindly, often end up in awkward positions. (Over the summer, stories about flash floods upstate and the deadly heat wave nationwide carried ads for Water and Little Miss Sunshine, respectively.) It’s extra weird, though, that the paper has chosen to accept these latest banners.

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