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  • Meg Whitman has her own definition of ‘the right thing’

    04/25/2010 9:36:20 AM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 14 replies · 475+ views
    LA Times ^ | 4/25/10 | Michael Hiltzik
    Meg Whitman says she lives by the principle of doing the right thing. It's there in the very first line of her autobiography. "What is the right thing to do here?" she recalls challenging her underlings at EBay, where she was chief executive, .. I've been trying to reconcile that principle with her actions in what's become known as her "spinning" scandal. Eight years ago, it came out that Whitman was among an elite group of favored executives who had accepted preferential stock deals from Goldman Sachs while it was seeking business from their companies. In spinning, executives would typically...
  • Officials Say Air Marshals Did Right Thing

    12/08/2005 3:15:49 PM PST · by NormsRevenge · 21 replies · 611+ views
    AP on Yahoo ^ | 12/8/05 | John Pain - ap
    MIAMI - The White House said Thursday that two federal air marshals appeared to have acted properly when they shot and killed an agitated passenger who claimed to have a bomb in his backpack. No bomb was found, and authorities later said Rigoberto Alpizar, the passenger killed Wednesday at the Miami airport, was not a terrorist. Witnesses said his wife had frantically tried to explain that he was mentally ill and had not taken his medication. "I don't think anyone wants to see it come to a situation like this," White House spokesman Scott McClellan said. "But these marshals appear...