Southwest kicked him off the flight saying he was too fat.

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"Too happy and fat and not having a sense of urgency for too long, " he said.

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He seems to have spent too much time chewing the fat with his fellow policy intellectuals and not enough getting his boots dirty.

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His voluntary return to action at an age when he was too old to fly fighter planes and too fat to squeeze into the cockpit without difficulty marked his own escape from his planet B-612.

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George Shaheen quits his CEO post at Andersen Consulting for a fat swing at 9-digit Webvan wealth. (He'll get it, too.) The shocker?

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