To the editor:
The University of Connecticut. which has a world renown learning psychology department. did a study of how much money it would take for an average person to betray a friend. Surprisingly, when the results came in, the cost of betraying a friend was not in the millions as one might suspect. The average cost of betrayal was a mere $2,400. If you divide this amount into the money numbers that Laidlaw is throwing around, one gets to see the potential for how many of us in ...
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