Charlie Wilson, the high-living former East Texas congressman immortalized on the silver screen by Tom Hanks in Charlie Wilson’s War, will get an endowed chair named for him at the University of Texas at Austin.Eat your collective hearts out, Harvard and Yale.The fundraising campaign for the Charlie Wilson Chair in Pakistani Studies was jump started with a pledge of $500,000 in matching funds from the T.L.L.

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