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Tuesday, February 21, 2006

Cash-For-Kofi Contest

What do you call it when a sitting UN Secretary General accepts a $500K cash award from a panel whose judges are UN underlings of said Secretary General?

Kofi Annan calls it another day at the office.

Claudia Rosett, who deserved a Pulitzer Prize for her reporting on the UN Oil-for-food scandal, describes the back-scratching award that Kofi received. View the must-read article here at the Weekly Standard.