Honor Student

"The contempt and outright hatred for this woman proffered was that she had gone out on purpose to bring down innocent men in some kind of conspiracy with the Mike Nifong."

That's a quote from Last Dance For Grace, the memoir of Crystal Mangum. She's the woman who accused the Duke Lacrosse team of rape. Oh, she's also a recent graduate (with honors!) from North Carolina Central University.

I'm not going to comment here about the Duke Lacrosse case. But it's a sad commentary on the state of higher education in America that someone can graduate with honors and show this low a level of literacy. The excerpts released by the publisher are rife with grammatical errors, misspellings, and the kind of incomprehensible gibberish I've quoted above.