Should these mat­ters be private?

• The state of Steve Jobs’ health. Jobs heads a busi­ness val­ued at US$140bn, its stock trades pub­licly on the NASDAQ.
• The pos­sible extra-marital liais­ons of John Edwards. Edwards is a former Sen­ator, V-P can­did­ate, and ran for the 2008 Demo­cratic Pres­id­en­tial nom­in­a­tion. He is not a cur­rent office holder. His wife is suf­fer­ing from breast cancer.
• The extra-marital sexual pro­cliv­it­ies of Max Mos­ley. Mos­ley is Pres­id­ent of the Fédéra­tion Inter­na­tionale de l’Automobile which con­trols For­mula 1, a sport fran­chise that makes about US$4bn a year internationally.

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