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Next they'll make Jeff Skilling provost.


When the nation's premier confidence men could no longer sell the Brooklyn Bridge An earlier DOS file transfer program from Fifth Generation Systems, Baton Rouge, LA., they moved to university administration. I made this discovery while working for the Peace Corps Peace Corps, agency of the U.S. government, whose purpose is to assist underdeveloped countries in meeting their needs for trained manpower. The Peace Corps was established in 1961 by executive order of President Kennedy; Congress approved it as a permanent agency within the Dept. of State the same year. Peace Corps volunteers serve for two-year periods. in the 1960s, where we found one institution of higher learning after another was taking us to the cleaners by adding outrageous charges for "administrative overhead" to the cost of training our volunteers. New evidence comes from the case of Robertson v. Princeton, which you may recall reading about in this column, and where expert testimony expert testimony n. opinions stated during trial or deposition (testimony under oath before trial) by a specialist qualified as an expert on a subject relevant to a lawsuit or a criminal case. (See: expert witness) has revealed that of the $195 million of Robertson money that was supposed to train graduate students for the foreign service foreign service: see diplomatic service; consular service. during the period 1990-2003, only $26 million paid for instruction of any kind. Princeton also seems to have double-billed the Robertson Foundation and the federal government, actually managing to charge the foundation twice, for building a building, and for depreciation of the building.
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Title Annotation:Tilting at Windmills
Author:Peters, Charles
Publication:Washington Monthly
Article Type:Brief article
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:May 1, 2006
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