It's official. The Millennium Dome at Greenwich is a fiasco. Last week Britain's National Audit Office condemned the financial mismanagement of the project right from its inception. This week the Public Accounts Committee of the House of Commons gave the financial officers of the Dome's operating company another painful public grilling. Tony Blair has already publicly renounced the Dome. And the symbolic failure of the Greenwich tent has focused attention on the whole structure and use of money from the National Lottery. To date, the Dome has consumed £628m ($900m) of lottery money, a sizeable chunk of the nearly £9 billion that has been distributed to the so-called "good causes".
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