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How did America’s business leaders get so old?

Slate - Have you noticed that CNBC is dominated by frisky septuagenarians? Last Wednesday, Carl Icahn, the 72-year-old corporate raider turned hedge-fund manager and shareholder activist, was terrorizing the whippersnappers at Yahoo, accusing its executive team of foolishly torpedoing a merger with Microsoft. The day before, the network aired testimony of legendary trader George Soros, 77, who was lecturing Congress on the oil spike.

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