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Last week, Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang was calling corporate raider Carl Icahn an inconsistent numbskull. This week, he's announcing that Icahn will join the board, and hailing his "fresh perspective." Jerry Yang deserves a pat on the back for coming to terms with the hostile investor; an ongoing fight would destroy the company he professed to love. But does he have to shred whatever is left of his credibility in the process? Here's a reminder of what Yahoo wrote about Icahn on its proxyfacts.yahoo.com website, linked to from the Yahoo homepage, until Yang abruptly changed his tune. Perhaps Yang and Icahn can have a nice chat about it before they move on to an acquisition of GitHub.

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