March 2, 2007

Honesty Pays Off

By KAREN BIRCHARD

What would you do if you found a wad of money the size of a loaf of bread? Would you turn it in?

Jaime Hawkins, a finance major at Saint Mary's University, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, was making a withdrawal from an automated teller machine in the student union when he thought he saw a $20 bill under a newspaper rack next to the ATM. Getting down on the floor, he discovered a block of twenties amounting to $10,000 in Canadian currency (about $8,500 in U.S. currency).

"I couldn't

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