From the Inside, Jerry Yang Looks Out for Yahoo

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"Do you let the fox in the henhouse?"

So asked Jerry Yang, Yahoo’s co-founder and chief executive, as we chatted for more than an hour one afternoon last week at Allen & Company’s annual conference here.

The fox in question, of course, is Carl Icahn, the activist investor who is trying to oust Mr. Yang and the Yahoo board so he can sell the company to Microsoft. “I don’t mean to impugn anyone’s personal integrity,” Mr. Yang quickly added. Let it never be said that Mr. Yang lacks manners.

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