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According to a statement released by the Heritage Foundation yesterday, speakers will include conservative talk show host, Rush Limbaugh, former Bush drug czar William J. Bennett and former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Jack Kemp...
...Prop 187 is so harsh -- and probably unconstitutional -- that several respected Republicans have come out against it -- and, by extension, against Wilson. In a year when Republicans have so far stuck together like Gummi Bears, Jack Kemp and William Bennett, both ambitious men unlikely to buck their party, tried appealing to conscience. While acknowledging that illegal immigration must be stopped, they argued that Prop 187 is a nativist measure that appeals to the angry and won't fix the problem. The measure, said Kemp, would "corrode the soul of the party." Bennett warned, "It is going to label all immigrants...
Conscience is one thing, winning another. Polls show 59% of likely voters favoring S.O.S. Michael Huffington, who was so respectful of Bennett that he plugged Bennett's The Book of Virtues in his campaign ads, ignored him and endorsed the initiative. Two weeks earlier, Huffington didn't even know what Prop 187 was. Said he: "I have not yet made a public stand on 170 -- er, what was that...
...spite of initial positive exposure from the national media and endorsement by educational professionals, by the early 1980s there was substantial angst within the Harvard community regarding the core's teaching methods and curriculum.. Campus dissatisfaction received national scrutiny when, in 1985, then-Secretary of Education William Bennett attacked the core, saying, "The core is designed not to teach any select body of knowledge, but to introduce presumably eager undergraduates to different 'modes of inquiry'.... Thus after four years, hopefully you will be able to flip a mental switch and think like a historian or an economist...
...William Bennett writes that "a good college will separate the great texts and the important ideas from the run-of-the-mill and offer the best to its students and that offering will be the institution's vision of a truly educated person...