So a few years ago Hasbro, the makers of Monopoly, hired Chuck Phillips to help them run a poll where fans could vote for their favorite city to be featured in a future version of the popular board game.

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If this seems a harsh assessment, then consider this: until the recent hiring of Mark Hurd (who at NCR and HP proved himself an operations guy and a merchandiser rather than an innovator) the last president of Oracle was Chuck Phillips, who came from Morgan Stanley.

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Mr. CHUCK PHILLIPS (Reporter, Los Angeles Times): Well, like I said, I have talked to people that I believed were involved in the orchestration of this attack, and I have had contact with the assailants themselves, and I believe that Sabatino himself told Puffy, or Combs, Sean Combs, however you call him.

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