>Using underhanded means like hiring private investigators to bolster one's position on board issues is not unprecedented, either, although rare according to an article in Wednesday's NY Times. As far as I can tell the only thing that has given this story legs is that the boardroom shenanigans were made public. In the clubby world of corporate boardrooms, THAT's news.

I first misread that as "bedrooms"... and then I saw I was wrong, and then I saw it's not that wrong at all.