The ethics committee has been investigating whether Gingrich had misused tax-free foundation money to finance the college courses he claimed to be non-political.

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Operating under legitimate-sounding names like National Scholarship Foundation, College Financial Aid Services of America and Student Assistance Services--all of which have been shut down by the FTC--they guarantee college scholarships and increased financial aid.

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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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Nisa Muhammad of the Wedded Bliss Foundation, a pro-marriage group, urges her college-educated sisters to consider marrying honourable blue-collar workers, such as the postman.

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Today, we can also announce the Gates Foundation is starting a new five-year initiative to raise community college graduation rates.

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It was the suggestion that he may have lied to the House ethics committee about the college course he taught and financed through a tax-exempt foundation.

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The nation's ability to direct most of its college-trained women into the single career of teaching was the foundation upon which the national public school system was built and a major reason American tax rates were kept low.

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