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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 Brooklyn Bridge, vehicular suspension bridge, New York City, southernmost of the bridges across the East River, between lower Manhattan and Brooklyn; built 1869–83. The achievement of J. A. Roebling and his son W. A. Roebling, it has a span of 1,595. , they moved to university administration. I made this discovery while working for the Peace Corps in the 1960s, where we found one institution of higher learning higher learning
n.
Education or academic accomplishment at the college or university level.
 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 Rob·ert·son   , Oscar Palmer Born 1938.

American basketball player. As a guard for the Cincinnati Royals, he became in 1962 the only player in National Basketball Association history to average in double figures in scoring, rebounding, and assists.
 v. Princeton, which you may recall reading about in this column, and where expert testimony Testimony about a scientific, technical, or professional issue given by a person qualified to testify because of familiarity with the subject or special training in the field.  has revealed that of the $195 million of Robertson money that was supposed to train graduate students for the foreign 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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