Copy/paste alert

Oh, dear. Our minister of defence, Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, is being accused of having plagiarised his doctoral thesis. Truly sad: His introductory paragraph was lifted from an article in the daily newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung  - at least it's one of the better newspapers, but Merlin's beard, at least try to come up with your own opening sentence!

Behold: