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DealBook: Yahoo’s Chief to Leave as Company Strikes Deal With a Hedge Fund Yahoo’s embattled chief executive, Scott Thompson, will leave his post after a controversy over his embellished academic credentials. Yahoo also reached an agreement with Third Point’s Daniel S. Loeb to end the hedge fund manager’s proxy fight. DealBook: Yahoo’s Chief to Leave as Company Strikes Deal With Loeb Yahoo’s embattled chief executive, Scott Thompson, will leave his post after a controversy over his embellished academic credentials. Yahoo also reached an agreement with Third Point’s Daniel S. Loeb to end the hedge fund manager’s proxy fight. My deathbed second thoughts I walk into our kitchen. My mother is standing at the kitchen sink, whistling to the red cardinals in the plumeria tree. As I hurry to slip past her, she turns and looks at me as though her gaze could wrap its arms around me. “I love you so much,” she says softly. I roll my eyes and tsk, responding as an independent 13-year-old striking out to sever the umbilical cord. My mother is cut down to ...
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