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Harper, the only African-American ever to serve on the Corporation, wrote that he was compelled to resign following a disagreement with James R. Houghton ’56, senior fellow of the Corporation, over a three-percent increase in Summers’ salary. Harper objected to the raise and said Houghton had not allowed for adequate discussion among the board members...
...interview this afternoon, West said he concurred with the tone of Harper’s letter and his call on Summers to resign...
...relieved at last week's tentative labor agreement but still angry at the sport's leaders. With word of a salary cap being instituted, most agreed with the HOCKEY PUNDITS that the "owners won on almost all counts," and many called for the union head and NHL commissioner to resign. (For the lighter side of the issue, check out GARY BETTMAN SUCKS.) Yet, as the HOCKEY CRITIC observed, "both parties have a daunting task ahead of them as they try to ... win back the fans...
...wait. "Let's confront the biggest, most painful political truth ... our political system has degenerated," the President said. Arroyo ordered her Cabinet to step down and announced a crusade to reform the government, reducing red tape and cleaning up the election process. Arroyo also said she couldn't resign in the wake of allegations that she fixed last year's presidential election because it would show the Philippines to be "hopelessly unstable...
...White House. That prompted Nixon adviser John Ehrlichman to suggest famously that Gray be left to "twist slowly, slowly in the wind." In April 1973, after conceding he had destroyed papers unrelated to the scandal but belonging to Watergate operative E. Howard Hunt, he was forced to resign...