Ted Turner put up $5 million for a joint U.S./Russian operation that recently spirited 100 lbs of uranium out of Yugoslavia in order to keep it out of the hands of terrorists. It's hard to imagine Richard Mellon Scaife doing something like that. His interest is funding conservative organizations.
From the Washington Post:

Scaife's trusts and foundations have given at least $146 million to university programs over the last 40 years – the equivalent of $373 million in inflation-adjusted dollars. At least two-thirds of that was directed to supporting conservative intellectuals and funding research on topics of deep interest to conservatives.

Of the two, who spent the money wisely?
posted by Quiddity at 8/24/2002 12:20:00 AM