text: They let others tease out the implications of their story for them , connecting the dots among Scaife , Starr , and Hale : The billionaire endowed a position for Starr at Pepperdine University ( which Starr has subsequently declined ) and then bankrolled Hale , Starr 's chief witness .
  
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  Starr accepted the position at Pepperdine University .