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Fair Play: The Price of Victory?

Posted on August 29, 2008 by Kathy McManus Comments (0)

It’s not whether you win or lose, it’s how you play the game. But should sportsmanship be more important than winning, even at the Olympics? Yes, says the International Fair Play Committee, an organization that rewards altruistic athletes. But Fair Play has its problems: they get very few nominations and Olympic-sized questions of poor sportsmanship abound. Read full article »
Just Rewards: Banking On It?

Posted on July 15, 2008 by Kathy McManus Comments (25)

If you do the right thing, should you expect to be rewarded? Yes, say three men in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The men—all city-employed water department workers—were on the job when they discovered an abandoned safe at the side of a road. The safe had been stolen by robbers who broke through the wall of a local bank during a winter ice storm. Read full article »
Hotel Rwanda Hilton?

Posted on March 4, 2008 by Kathy McManus Comments (31)

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 »
Table Guardians

Posted on February 14, 2008 by Kathy McManus Comments (4)

Being responsible can be life-changing. Profound. Noble. And annoying. What are we supposed to do when a stranger says “Excuse me, can you…Watch my things?” Read full article »
Crowd Scene

Posted on February 13, 2008 by Kathy McManus Comments (1)

When adventurer Steve Fossett’s plane went missing over the remote Nevada desert in September 2007, there was no distress signal. But 50,000 people heard a call for help. Without knowing each other or the man they were looking for, they formed an altruistic army of volunteer searchers, unprecedented in size and extraordinary in method. Read full article »
The Gift Continues

Posted on February 8, 2008 by Kathy McManus Comments (2)

A couple of weeks ago, we told you about “The Gift”: a woman finds an envelope with $770 cash—lost by a frantic holiday shopper on the floor of a toy store—and takes it directly to the police. When police return the money to the grateful shopper, the Good Samaritan thinks the story is over. But it was just beginning. Read full article »
The Gift

Posted on January 25, 2008 by Kathy McManus Comments (7)

Long after the holiday decorations have been put away and the presents have started to lose their luster, the spirit of the season past becomes increasingly hard to hold on to.

But we found that one woman’s gift to another still sparkled, well into the New Year. Read full article »