The answer is that my friend and several hundred others may not have been fired.

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Whether my friend the British CEO would have found the answer to his particlaular problem on a distant campus in Massachussets rather than in the local environment is open to debate.

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My friend, former NBA superstar and current television analyst Charles Barkley is clear that the answer is a resounding NO.

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