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DENVER (AP) - Voter-approved ethics rules intended to bar public officials from taking gifts could also prevent future Nobel Prize-winning university professors from accepting the $1.3 million prize money, the state attorney general said Thursday.
The rules could also prohibit children of public university employees from accepting many scholarships, a result state Attorney General John W. Suthers called "absurd."
Suthers said that while some of Amendment 41's wording was vague, he believes it would prohibit public employees from taking the prize money or those students from accepting many scholarships.
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