Word: robertson
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...payback to the Robertson Foundation was the latest move in an ongoing legal battle between Princeton and the Robertson family over the allocation of the Foundation’s $800 million endowment. The case is currently before the New Jersey Superior Court...
...Robertson Foundation, established in 1961 by Princeton alum Charles S. Robertson, was an originally anonymous $35 million gift intended to support the university’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs...
...Robertson family members, who hold three seats on the Foundation’s seven-member board, claim that the original donor intended for the money to be used to support the Woodrow Wilson school’s graduate program and help place its graduates in public-sector jobs. They said that Princeton has continually mishandled the Foundation’s endowment and are demanding a $207 million payback...
...Chesterton once observed. "A modern morality," he wrote, "can only point with absolute conviction to the horrors that follow breaches of the law." And so it has been with the religious conservatives who have overwhelmed the latter-day Republican Party. For preachers like Jerry Falwell, James Dobson and Pat Robertson, the prospect of hell has always been far more vivid than the possibility of heaven. Presidential candidates like Robertson, Pat Buchanan and Gary Bauer have loaded up on the "Thou Shalt Nots" and rarely, if ever, mentioned the grace and serenity that come from doing "for the least of these...
...Huckabee and Brownback, a moment of biblical temptation looms. Both will be spending most of their time in Iowa, where Republicans have a strong religious bent. Both Robertson and Buchanan have done well there. The temptation will be to slouch back to hellfire and brimstone to unite conservative Christians. It will be an exquisite test of faith for a Second Commandment Christian like Huckabee: Thou Shalt or Thou Shalt Not? Can you win the Iowa caucus without losing your soul? time-blog.com/swampland