Alexander Kemos' credentials -- a natural listener with a knack for grasping cultures and impressive academic and business experience -- were perfect to guide a globalizing Texas A&M focused on becoming better, those who know him said. His skills landed him a post at the university in March 2009, and he soon became the interim president's chief of staff and then the 49,000-student campus' No. 3 administrator. Kemos' meteoric rise in academia crashed recently. He resigned June 18 amid revelations of false claims of being an ex-Navy SEAL and having a master's degree and doctorate.

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