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Janitor Earns Columbia University Degree After 12 Years Of Study

Janitor Earns Columbia University Degree After 12 Years Of Study
By Dan Fastenberg May 9th 2012 @ 2:52PM

He's an immigrant who became a janitor, and on Sunday, he'll also be an Ivy League graduate, with a degree in classics from Columbia University. It's a classic American success story, but not the kind you read much in these recessionary times. Gac Filipaj, 52, came to the U.S. from war-torn Yugoslavia in 1992 ...

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