Since Icahn doesn't appear to have paid less for his blended share price, this is one thing on which he and the board will be lined up perfectly as they bumble together into the future.

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Three decades of scalps, resulting from some of the most famous hostile takeovers, proxy fights and board assaults in American financial history, cover every cranny of his wood-lined corridors.

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