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...family company Shin Corp. to a group led by Singapore's Temasek Holdings. Since then, Thai politics have descended into high farce, culminating in an April snap election boycotted by the opposition and later invalidated by the courts. The election commissioners who oversaw this debacle refused to resign until they were briefly thrown in jail. A fresh ballot has been scheduled for Oct. 15, but it may well have to be delayed while new commissioners are installed...
...marry him after a shopping trip to Rodeo to do market research," she says. "He pulled into my driveway, looked at me and said, 'Would you sleep with me?' I said no. Then he said, 'Would you marry me?' I said maybe. Obviously on Monday I went in to resign. But Max apologized. Then I went to his house and saw him sitting with his daughters on his lap, hugging them so gently, and I thought to myself, If that man could love me half as much as he loves his children, I would be the happiest woman...
...Simmons said that she plans to serve out her term as president of Brown, according to The Brown Daily Herald, the university’s student newspaper. The remarks were her first public comment on the matter since Feb. 21, when Lawrence H. Summers announced his decision to resign...
...Rubin said through his assistant in late July that it was “unequivocally not true” that he would resign his post on the Harvard Corporation before the end of the 2006-2007 academic year...
...criticize Washington directly, but he declared his disappointment that "people around the world in a way just don't care anymore. There is a feeling I get in the international community, 'You know what, let the Israelis and Arabs have a go at each other.' Are we going to resign our region for another decade of violence, or are we going to put this to rest once and for all?" In Jordan's view, he said, "There needs to be some sort of Palestinian integral, geographic state, today and not tomorrow...