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HP's Dunn as Newsweek Cover Girl

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the not-a-good-week-for-her dept.

theodp writes "In The Boss Who Spied on Her Board, Newsweek likens HP Chairwoman Pattie Dunn's attempts to escape culpability with her I-knew-nothing defense to both a head of state, who wants 'plausible deniability' while ordering an assassination plot, and to Henry II, who had the Archbishop of Canterbury removed by simply muttering 'Will no one rid me of this troublesome priest?' in front of his knights."

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  1. When in Rome, etc. by ScentCone · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is slashdot. Please do not cite movie-style 'head of state asks-without-asking for an assination mission' analogies, or refer to centuries-old British church smack-downs. If you can't describe this in terms of chair throwing, iPod-killing, or some form of infringement, the message is lost.

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    Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
    1. Re:When in Rome, etc. by HerrEkberg · · Score: 5, Funny

      Will no one rid me of this troublesome chair?

  2. Hey by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Does anybody have a stream of today's emergency board meeting?

    The equipment is in place, isn't it?

  3. Re:Turbulent by trewornan · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sorry, I'm not American so it didn't occur to me that school-kid knowledge of history would be regarded as elitism.