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Calvin Trillin

October 5, 2011

Hewlett-Packard CEO, fired after disastrous eleven-month reign, gets $13 million in termination benefits.          —news reports   One job’s a job I never would forgo. That job, of course, is being CEO. According to the customs now prevailing, It pays a lot—and pays you more for failing. It must be nice to have a job wherein You cannot lose, for if you lose you win.

Calvin TrillinCalvin Trillin is The Nation’s “deadline poet.”


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