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Maryland's Slush Fund

MARYLAND lawmakers are moving to outlaw the odious practice of awarding cash scholarships to their own college-bound spouses, children and grandchildren. That's a welcome sign of modernity's belated dawn in Annapolis, but it's really just a baby step. For even as they take it, the Maryland legislators have no intention of undertaking a broader ban on the outrageous, anachronistic slush funds of which they freely avail themselves under the innocuous-sounding banner of "legislative scholarships."...