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The Responsibility Project

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Responsibility. What’s your policy?™

  1. Foul Ball

    Posted on March 25, 2008 by Kathy McManus Comments (29)

    Laura Kerod had great seats. She and her husband Kevin were cheering for their local New Jersey minor league baseball team—the Trenton Thunder —sitting enviably close to the dugout. Ms. Kerod turned to check the score board, then turned back. “And boom, it hit me,” she said of the foul ball that slammed into her face, ripping her lip, shattering her teeth, and fracturing her palate. Read full article »

  2. Samaritan or Killer?

    Posted on March 20, 2008 by Kathy McManus Comments (15)

    It’s possible to be a Good Samaritan. But is it possible to be a not-good-enough Samaritan? A Canadian woman was recently confronted with that question when two killers accused her of not doing enough to save a man they had beaten and left for dead. Read full article »

  3. Driven

    Posted on March 18, 2008 by Kathy McManus Comments (8)

    How responsible are you for another person’s actions? If you loan your car to a friend, and the friend gets into an accident, it’s generally understood that as the owner of the car, you’ll be held legally liable to some degree.

    But if you loan your car to a friend, and the friend uses the car to drive three other people to a house where they commit murder, are you just as guilty as those who took part in the crime, even though you weren’t even there? Read full article »

  4. Death by Blog?

    Posted on March 17, 2008 by Kathy McManus Comments (7)

    When a 40-year-old Chicago advertising executive named Paul Tilley died recently, the cause of death was officially ruled suicide. Tilley, who oversaw the “I’m Lovin’ It” ads for McDonald’s and the creation of the “Dell Dude”, jumped from a Chicago hotel.

    But some believe that Tilley was metaphorically pushed by a steady stream of malicious comments anonymously posted about him online in the weeks before he took his life. Read full article »

  5. Moment of Truth

    Posted on March 13, 2008 by Kathy McManus Comments (24)

    Many people tell the truth because it’s the responsible thing to do. But should you ever tell the truth because it’s a lucrative thing to do?
    Contestants on the controversial new TV show Moment of Truth say yes, motivated by the chance to win $500,000 in exchange for performing a kind of moral striptease in front of their families, spouses, and ultimately, millions of riveted viewers. Read full article »

  6. Gone Baby Gone

    Posted on March 11, 2008 by Kathy McManus Comments (102)

    At 7:30 on a Monday morning, a teenage girl holding a newborn baby approached a bus stop in Sacramento. The bus stop is only a few miles from the California state capitol building, where a law called the “SSB” was enacted—the safely surrendered baby law. The SSB allows a desperate mother to give up an unwanted baby within three days of birth, no questions asked, no prosecution for child abandonment, and hopefully no infant left in a trash dumpster, the kind of tragic scenario the law was designed to discourage. Read full article »

  7. A Discussion with Dinner for Two Director, Janet Perlman

    Posted on March 5, 2008 by Kathy McManus Comments (2)

    For director Janet Perlman, responsibility means doing the right thing, “even when it’s inconvenient.” When the Oscar-nominated Emmy winner was asked to come up with an idea for a film about conflict resolution, she was immediately drawn to using animation. “It was the perfect subject for an animated film,” she explains, “since conflict is at the heart of most good stories.” Read full article »

  8. Dinner for Two

    Posted on March 5, 2008 by Kathy McManus Comments (3)

    Dinner for Two serves up good food for thought. When two chameleons literally get stuck in conflict, there’s a ripple effect throughout their previously peaceful rainforest home. Opportunities are lost. Relationships severed. Innocent bystanders suffer. And violence threatens. Sound familiar? Read full article »

  9. Hotel Rwanda Hilton?

    Posted on March 4, 2008 by Kathy McManus Comments (27)

    Soon after Paris Hilton’s 23-day jail stint related to DUI charges, she announced that she wanted to go to Rwanda to “help save some people’s lives.” The head of the charity group she was to accompany revealed that Ms. Hilton’s five-day African trip would be documented by a camera crew. Read full article »