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Fareed Zakaria back at CNN/Time, but resigns from Yale

Fareed Zakaria, a well-known international author and TV host, has been reinstated by Time magazine and CNN after being suspended earlier this month following revelations that a column he had written for Time (and parts of which appeared on his CNN blog) were plagarized from a New Yorker article by Harvard historian Jill Lepore.

The National Journal and the Chicago Tribune are reporting that Zakaria's CNN show Fareed Zakaria GPS will be returning to the air on August 26, and his column in Time will resume September 7.

Mr. Zakaria has been under suspension from CNN since the plagarism charge surfaced on August 10. Mr. Zakaria himself has apologized for the column, calling it "a terrible mistake."

Yesterday, the New Haven Register reported that Mr. Zakaria, who received his B.A. from Yale and has been a member of the Yale Corporation, the university's governing body, since 2006, resigned his position yesterday. He wrote in a letter to university president Richard C. Levin that, "in order to focus on the core of my work, I will have to shed some of my other responsibilities." This decision followed calls some members of Yale faculty and staff for Zakaria to either resign or be fired.