News about William Bennett

Leading scholars have urged Harvard's new president to be hired based on merit rather than DEI to show that the prestige of the university has not been undermined.'

www.dailymail.co.uk, January 3, 2024
Claudine Gay resigned on Tuesday after being accused of plagiarism and chastised for attending a congressional hearing, in which she was unable to comment definitively that calls for the genocide of Jews would breach the school's conduct policy. The whole affair,' according to Fox News' William Bennett, who served as Education Secretary in the Reagan administration, is "an example of the utmost mistrust of our most prestigious organizations." He went on to say that Gay, Harvard's first black president, was admitted in the first place due to the university's "wild race conscience." ' Bennett said, 'Special attention is given to race both in the recruiting process and then, as well as in the installation of their presiding officer.' We're no longer getting people based on merit, and it's permeating all of society.' Though historian Victor Davis Hanson said in a tweet earlier this week that Harvard should not look beyond DEI when searching for a new president.

The infamous 1989 murder of pregnant Carol Stuart in Boston revives the murder of an innocent man.'

www.dailymail.co.uk, December 10, 2023
Chuck Stuart, a married suburban couple, and his pregnant mother Carol were shot in Boston on October 23, 1989. Carol died and Chuck survived, but she was only able to give a general idea of the perpetrator: a black man in a track suit. The new HBO docuseries 'Murder in Boston' revisits the case, traceing the outbreak of racial animus that the killing stemmed off and the ferocious citywide manhunt that saw a slew of innocent men wrongfully named as suspects. The series, which was produced in association with the Boston Globe, delves into troubling new information about the infamous killing and its subsequent effects on race relations in the city long before the true murderer was revealed to be hiding in plain sight.

After a stiff drink session in the afternoon, jurors who felt guilty for convicted two men pleaded guilty via Snapchat

www.dailymail.co.uk, August 21, 2023
After a late-afternoon drinking session, two jurors who felt guilty of convicting two men took them on Snapchat. George Matthews, 30, and Katherine Davies, 26, revealed the top-secret jury deliberations, which resulted in the criminals appealing their sentences and costing taxpayer thousands of pounds. After Matthews, the jury foreman, delivered the criminals' guilty verdicts for drug offences in autumn 2021, the pair spent the night out booze at the Slug and Lettuce Iron Gate in Derby City Centre.