So as not to confuse, I should say at the outset that I am not a supporter of Meg Whitman, GOP candidate for Governor in my home state of California.

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Whether or not hiring former eBay CEO Meg Whitman is the best course for Hewlett Packard in the long-run is best left to analysts who follow the company for a living.

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Meg Whitman was not in charge at the time but was on the board - and in our interview she came pretty close to admitting that HP had overpaid with or without any accounting shenanigans.

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We will also see that smart and courageous women like Sheryl Sandberg, Marissa Mayer ( Yahoo), Virginia Rometty (IBM) and Meg Whitman (HP) will not be changed by their power, but will change the nature of it.

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Meg Whitman is talented, but is not the right leader for HP.

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Meg appreciated his appreciation for the machine but not his obsession for it.

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Two McCain advisers seemed to go out of their way to say they thought the media's scrutiny of Palin was not sexist: former Ohio Congressman Rob Portman and eBay CEO Meg Whitman.

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"Compliance has not been enforced so I'm not surprised people don't understand the risks, " said Meg Watson, study author and epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Division of Cancer Prevention and Control.

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