When to Spill the Beans

By Randy Cohen

Published May 16, 2004 at 12:00 AM EDT

This week's letter to ethicist Randy Cohen comes from a listener in Beijing who wants to know whether a friend is obliged to pass on damning information about a former manager now applying to business schools.

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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