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Harvard President Claudine Gay plagiarized multiple sections of her Ph.D. thesis, violating Harvard's policies on academic integrity.
Gay published her dissertation, “Taking Charge: Black Electoral Success and the Redefinition of American Policies,” in 1997, as part of her doctorate in political science from Harvard. The paper deals with white-black political representation and racial attitudes. As evaluated under the university’s plagiarism policy, the paper contains at least three problematic patterns of usage and citation.
originally posted by: RelSciHistItSufi
a reply to: Phoenix
Re Hunter pleading the fifth in congressional committees because of the ongoing investigations:
There may be a trap set for him here...
If I remember correctly, one cannot utiliise the fifth on subject areas where one has pled to a deal?
Hunter DID plea to a deal on previous charges, though the judge then cancelled the deal - but how does the law work on this? Might he still have lost the right to the fifth because of the act of pleading to a deal... irrespective of whether the judge rejected the deal???
Since concluding his presidency in 2017, Barack Obama has taken up a few hobbies. He’s written a bestselling memoir, signed a deal with Netflix to produce films and television series, and created Higher Ground, a production company co-led by his wife, Michelle. His latest gig? Providing notes on Sam Esmail’s latest film, Leave the World Behind.
According to Esmail, Obama thought the script was fairly close to how a crisis would actually pan out in the real world. In an interview with Vanity Fair, the director reflected on what it was like to receive that feedback. “I am writing what I think is fiction, for the most part, I’m trying to keep it as true to life as possible, but I’m exaggerating and dramatizing,” he said. “And to hear an ex-president say you’re off by a few details…I thought I was off by a lot! The fact that he said that scared the **** out of me.”
The former president and first lady signed on to executive produce Leave The World Behind last year. As part of the deal, Obama was able to share his perspective on the events that unfolded on screen. “He had a lot [of] notes about the characters and the empathy we would have for them,” Esmail said.
He is in direct contact with people who believe in these jabs and most are probably on #7. He would know about the shedding issue so why is he not concerned??? I would wager that they have developed something to protect themselves.
But the reasons for the dramatic shift in Hunter Biden’s case are more unusual and troubling.
Under a nine-count indictment brought by special counsel David Weiss in Los Angeles last week, Biden faces new and far more serious charges for the very same conduct that was the subject of a favorable plea agreement in July. The deal would have required the president’s son to plead guilty to two misdemeanor tax violations while dismissing a gun charge if Biden could stay out of trouble for a year.
The collapse of that deal is one reason for the new charges against Biden. Sloppy lawyering on both sides resulted in an agreement that seemed to require the judge to decide whether to bring or dismiss the gun charges, a quintessentially executive function that could violate the separation of powers. She rightly balked, and the parties couldn’t put the pieces back together.
The important point is that the unwinding of the bargain had nothing to do with Biden. He was in effect an innocent bystander to the breakdown.
Biden’s second bad break was a function of the Department of Justice’s special counsel regulation and Atty. Gen. Merrick Garland’s determination to remain — and appear — apolitical.
Hunter Biden's legal team also said the gun charges should be dismissed because U.S. Department of Justice attorneys had signed a deal in June to not prosecute if the president's son abided by a diversion program. The court filings said the "sweeping immunity" of the diversion agreement would seem to prevent the government from pursuing the tax charges as well.
The diversion agreement allowed Hunter Biden to avoid a gun charge. In return, he had to comply with several conditions for two years, including not possessing a firearm, supervision by a U.S. probation officer, abstaining from alcohol or illegal drugs and submitting to drug testing.
That agreement, which Hunter Biden's attorneys said he continues to comply with, unraveled after U.S. District Court Judge Maryellen Noreika in Wilmington questioned it at a July hearing.
Following the collapse of the diversion agreement, U.S. Special Counsel David Weiss charged Hunter Biden with three criminal counts related to lying about his use of illegal drugs when he purchased a Colt Cobra handgun in 2018. Users of narcotics are banned from owning a firearm under a gun law.
Hunter Biden's legal team also said Weiss was unlawfully appointed and therefore the prosecution was not legally authorized.
Attorneys Abbe Lowell and Bartholomew Dalton requested that US District Judge Maryellen Noreika throw out the case, arguing in turn that the indictment violated a past agreement between the 53-year-old and the government, is based on an unconstitutional firearms statute and that Weiss was unlawfully appointed to special counsel status.
A fourth motion to dismiss claims the case is a “selective and vindictive prosecution” of the first son and “a breach of separation of powers” because Weiss “buckled under political pressure” from former President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans.
“After five years of a thorough (and what was and must continue to be a very expensive) investigation, U.S. Attorney David Weiss, a holdover from the Trump administration, decided to resolve the entire investigation of Mr. Biden through a Diversion Agreement concerning a firearm charge and a separate Plea Agreement to resolve tax-related misdemeanor charges,” the lawyers wrote.
Have any of you watched the movie Leave the World Behind , yet?
originally posted by: interupt42
a reply to: cherokeetroy
Have any of you watched the movie Leave the World Behind , yet?
Anti American and anti white propaganda specifically white males, while laughing at the regular joes left behind while the Elites go to their bunkers.
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