Word: quitting
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...federal matching funds, can finally be the platform for his nationalist and anti-free-trade arguments and his anti-Washington populism. "My gut tells me he's going to make the shift," says Pat Choate, Perot's '96 running mate, who behind the scenes has been urging Buchanan to quit the G.O.P. "He's frozen out of the Republican Party. We'll give him an incredible forum...
...President Daniel arap Moi and renowned paleoanthropologist and wildlife advocate Richard Leakey has transfixed Kenyans for more than a decade. After first meeting Moi in 1968, Leakey gave occasional advice to the President, and in 1989 Moi made Leakey head of the Kenya Wildlife Service. Then came drama. Leakey quit and helped form an anticorruption opposition party; Moi branded him a neocolonial racist; a state-owned newspaper tied Leakey to the Ku Klux Klan; and progovernment thugs beat him when he attended a colleague's court hearing. "How much of it was deep [hatred] and how much...
Leakey's powerful personality and outspokenness drew the wrath of government insiders. In 1994, following a series of attacks against Leakey in Parliament and the state-run press, Moi announced an investigation into alleged improprieties at the Wildlife Service. Leakey quit. "I could no longer achieve," he says. "Everything was too combative." The simmering animosity between the two men boiled over a year later, when Leakey helped form an opposition party. Though never a major force, the party attracted enough attention to provoke attacks from the ruling Kenya African National Union party...
...mysterious disease seems to have gripped ER. The show's cast keeps finding strange reasons to leave the top-rated series. First, Sherry Stringfield (Dr. Susan Lewis) quit acting for a "normal life." Then George Clooney (Dr. Doug Ross) checked out to make movies with Nicole Kidman and Jennifer Lopez. (O.K., that's not so strange.) Now GLORIA REUBEN, who plays ailing physician's assistant Jeanie Boulet, has declared she will be leaving after this season's first few episodes to hit the road as a backup singer and dancer for Tina Turner. Reuben, whose character usually ministers to patients...
...trick. On Friday, the Vatican released an updated manual on indulgences, with several additions to the acts of faith that lessen a Catholic?s time spent in purgatory ?- the heavenly holding pen outside the pearly gates. The pope announced the church will now give "partial" indulgences to parishioners who quit smoking, even for a day. (A full indulgence is achieved when the self-restraint is accompanied by confession and communion.) The money that would have been spent on the cigarettes should be donated to the needy, the manual intones. But besides enlarging charity coffers, what sort of spiritual good...