![Author Fareed Zakaria attends the Annual Meeting of the Harvard University Alumni Association at the 2012 Harvard Commencement on May 24, 2012 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.](https://pyxis.nymag.com/v1/imgs/fa5/9a2/97aea29d62a218197571159ff26043e30f-10-fareed-zakaria.rvertical.w330.jpg)
After temporarily suspending Zakaria over a passage in a recent article that bore some striking similarities to an April piece written by The New Yorker’s Jill Lepore, Time has determined that the mini-plagiarism scandal was an “isolated incident” resulting from an “unintentional error.” Lesson learned, maybe.