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U.N. craziness

| July 8, 2011 6:00 AM

The United Nations has never lived up to the grandiose aspirations of its founders. By the 1990s even many of its supporters admitted the world body had become a bloated debating society. Madeleine Albright, then U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, called it "elephantine" and decried the chronic waste and lack of accountability.

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