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Friday, February 10, 2006

Is This the Best Use
of Senator Grassley's Time?

UD is second to no one in her anti-Ladnerianism (see her extensive coverage of the recent American University scandal) but things are getting silly when a United States Senator starts sniffing after $20,000 in questionable university payments to the disgraced former president of AU, and when the Washington Post decides this piddling amount of money calls for the following headline: SENATOR WANTS ANSWERS FROM AU.

Isn't Grassley supposed to think about, say, defense appropriation? Ladner's out of the picture, going quietly mad at his island getaway ("Ladner, reached yesterday at his home on Gibson Island in Maryland, said, "Thanks very much for calling" and hung up."); the ongoing congressional investigation of corrupt non-profits should be able to come up with more substantial stuff than this.
Posted at: 2/10/2006 08:57:00 AM