בס׳ד

"Where does it say that you have a contract with G-d to have an easy life?"

the Lubavitcher Rebbe



"Failure is not the enemy of success; it is its prerequisite."

Rabbi Nosson Scherman



18 May 2012

Simple mistakes

Breitbart reports that "Miriam Goderich, who helped edit a 1991 booklet for Barack Obama's then-literary agency, Acton & Dystel, which erroneously stated that Obama had been born in Kenya, has issued a press release.
...I hope you can communicate to your readers that this was a simple mistake and nothing more."
Read full article: http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/05/17/A-Fact-Checking-Error-Repeated-Multiple-Times-Over-Several-Years-by-Different-Agencies

There's a story at Yahoo about an honest employee at Goodwill Industries who was sorting through donations when she found "$14,505 in cash. The only problem is it appears to have been unintentional rather than a literal act of goodwill."

...For her part, Wells, 36, said she never intended to keep the money for herself.

"I can go home and sleep at night now," Wells said. "Otherwise, it'd come back and bite me. I really do think honesty is the best policy."
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/goodwill-sorting-allegedly-accidental-14-000-donation-194038233.html
 
By the way, a number of people have called up to claim the money.

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