After two years of denying that he had done anything wrong, the Speaker admitted in December that he had failed to seek proper legal guidance before using contributions to his tax-exempt foundation to finance a college lecture course, one that even he said was aimed at the partisan goal of electing a G.

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One course in particular captured his imagination: a lecture series on building machines that could manipulate molecules.

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Of course, just because a course is online does not mean it will be good, just as not every traditional lecture or classroom experience is good or bad.

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