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'The Ethicist:' Ticket Re-Sales

By Howard Berkes,
Randy Cohen
Published April 4, 2004 at 12:00 AM EST

NPR's Howard Berkes and New York Times Magazine ethicist Randy Cohen discuss the dilemma of William Gooch of South Holland, Illinois. He got lucky enough to win a lottery to purchase hard-to-get baseball tickets. He wonders whether it's right to sell a ticket to his friend for more than face value.

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Howard Berkes
Howard Berkes is a correspondent for the NPR Investigations Unit.
See stories by Howard Berkes
Randy Cohen
Randy Cohen was born in Charleston, S.C., and raised in Reading, Pa. He attended graduate school at the California Institute of the Arts as a music major studying composition.
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