"I had free hand to a certain degree," said Carell.
The commander, who has a master's degree, said he considered himself a smart, ethical officer.
"It's an Achilles' heel for us to some degree," said Ted Tozer, Ginnie Mae's president.
"This is a picture story, to a very large degree," said Andrew Kohut, the president of the Pew Research Center.
"I'd rather see that kind of background than a Harvard degree," said Mr. Hirst, 64, who now works at Northwest.
"It means something if I go home to Bangladesh with an American degree," said Abdul Mukit, a business student.
"Tantawi and the others are still loyal to the Mubarak mindset to some degree," said Mamoun Fandy, a columnist.
"They sort of ignore them to a certain degree," said former Senator James Sasser, a Democrat from Tennessee.
"We've seen world markets trade in unison to an astonishing degree," said Stacy Williams, an HSBC strategist in London, in a telephone conversation last week.
"They have made a career decision to do an American liberal arts degree," said Sophie Laws, director of the college's humanities program.
"I promised my mother many, many years ago that I would get my degree," said Mr. Titus, a former salesman who lives in Houston.
