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Icahn's Eleven: Yahoo Board Slate as Clooney Flick

Posted on May 15, 2008

Must amusing take so far on the proposed Icahn board slate for Yahoo comes from Breakingviews this morning. The folks there have done it as a winking take on the George Clooney flick, Ocean's Eleven, with Icahn in the starring role. The semi-serious point, of course, is that Icahn's board nominees are doing this is as a quick caper: They want to make their money and get out quick. I would post an excerpt, but the Breakingviews site has an irritating feature that prevents copying of even portions of stories. Update: Jeff at BV has helpfully allowed me to repost some text here: Consider t...

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