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Yahoo director to leave board amid CEO flap

By Michael Liedtke

 |  Associated Press  

  May 09, 2012

A Yahoo director who didn’t challenge an inaccuracy in CEO Scott Thompson’s academic record will step down from the troubled Internet company’s board, according to a report published Tuesday. Patti Hart, the head of the Yahoo search committee that hired Thompson in January, reportedly won’t seek re-election at the company’s annual meeting later this year. That’s what unnamed people close to the situation told All Things D, a technology blog affiliated with The Wall Street Journal.

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