Here are some of the mangy examples of the virus at work in our recent history.

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Congress and the Securities and Exchange Commission have been coming up with rules and regulations for decades to try to ensure corporate boards and the executives who work for them are good citizens, but a quick review of recent history shows such efforts have largely been in vain.

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