Word: resignation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Those who dare "drop the flag" and resign from the gang face a brutal little ceremony called being "violated" or "jumped out." The precise ritual varies from gang to gang: sometimes each member of the gang, which may be several dozen strong, gets a free swing at the victim; other times four or five members are assigned to conduct the beating for a set amount of time. Whatever the punishment, the results are strikingly similar. "They give you a head-to-toe, which means you get your ass kicked," says Frank Perez, program director for the Chicago Commons Association gang...
...Newhouse moved again, in an editorial blitz that caused a sensation in the media world when it was revealed last week. He forced Gottlieb, 61, to resign in order to make way for the most unlikely editor the New Yorker has ever had: Tina Brown, 38, who arrived in the U.S. from her native Britain in 1984 and promptly transformed Newhouse's Vanity Fair from a faltering revival into the "hot book" of the magazine trade...
...know of anyone else who has come out in the way that I have, or stuck around to get beaten up. My understanding is that I am the highest- ranking person who is being discharged under these conditions. I could have chosen to resign or retire because I had been in long enough. But I really felt a sense of loss of what my goals had been within the military, and I was trying to find some greater purpose, I suppose, for losing my career and having seen so many young people and their careers annihilated...
...bring a bunch of swimming suits. One is okay, but you'll find that Cambridge is not exactly Tahiti. Resign yourself to the fact that you will never be as your best friend who attends that prestigious university on the West Coast...
...Concerned Christians at Harvard, anundergraduate group, demands that the Rev. PeterJ. Gomes, who is gay, resign as minister ofMemorial Church because he preaches thathomosexuality...