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Yahoo CEO Bartz plays with pain

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August 5, 2009, 2:35 PM ET

When the Microsoft-Yahoo search deal was announced, Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz was recovering from knee-replacement surgery, an operation of which she watched every gory minute. Learn what Bartz had to say about the experience in Pattie Sellers’ Postcards column.

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