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米Yahoo!はCEOのScott Tompson氏を解任し、Ross Levinsohn氏を暫定CEOに就任させる人事を発表しました。Tompson氏の学歴詐称が表面化したためです。Yahoo!でのこうした騒動は今回だけではなく繰り返し続いています。それゆえ、以下の記事では見出しにsaga（「一族・一門の何代にもわたる歴史を描いた年代記」）という言葉を使って揶揄しています。revolving doorはAWの連載（9/18/2011）でも取り上げましたが、「指導者が入れ替わり立ち替わり代わること」を表す比喩的な表現です。記事に載せた例文をあげておきます。（UG）
Yasuo Fukuda resigned after less than a year as prime minister. In and out they go, like they are in a perpetually revolving door.（BBC電子版 Sep. 27, 2008）

Yahoo's CEO Saga: Fake Degrees and Boardroom Battles
As current exec's lie is exposed, Yahoo could have to ready its revolving door of CEOs for another spin.
By Robert X. Cringely, Infoworld    May 8, 2012 7:28 am

Ah, Yahoo -- it gives and it gives and it gives, and what does it ask for in return? Only snickering mixed with incredulity. Just when it looked like things couldn't get worse for the Web 1.0 giant that cannot seem to make it in a 2.0 world, the bottom fell further.
It turns out that freshly minted CEO Scott Thompson, who has claimed to have a degree in computer science from Stonehill College since his days at PayPal, doesn't actually have a degree in computer science but rather in accounting. (For the record, I would never consider padding my resume to include a fake degree. No sir, not me.)
Yahoo called that small oversight in its vetting process an "inadvertent error," apparently to distinguish it from all the advertent errors it has made lately. Maybe advertising for the position on Craigslist wasn't such a smart idea after all.
Thompson got outed by board member Dan Loeb, who apparently has had it in for Thompson ever since he was named CEO and will likely be filing a splashy lawsuit demanding every document Yahoo has ever produced with Thompson's name on it.
Gee, a high-tech CEO brought down by a disgruntled board member -- where have I heard that before? Oh yeah -- at Yahoo, about a half-dozen times now. That story is familiar to anyone who's followed Yahoo's frankly hilarious history over the last five years. The names of the cast members may change, but the clown suits remain the same.
Now everyone is either calling for Thompson's head or speculating about what Yahoo will do. AllThingsD's Kara Swisher reports that morale at Yahoo is at an all-time low. That's a bit like saying temperatures in Antarctica are at an all-time low. Once you get below minus 40, does it really matter?

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