The allegations are fairly common these days, but when it’s the New York Times being fingered, everyone is understandably cautious about flinging around ugly words like ‘plagiarism.’ Still, there does seem to be a problem with a story the Times published recently about a Texas woman whose son is missing in action in Iraq. Many of the details of the Times story are identical or strikingly similar to details which appeared in a San Antonio paper days earlier. The Times says it is investigating internally, and stresses that it does not tolerate plagiarism in any form.