Word: resignation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sept. 10, the master's candidate chose to resign after being told by Lee that he was not qualified for the position...
Writing a best-selling novel isn't the same thing as editing a best-selling newspaper. PETE HAMILL, author of Snow in August, proved that last week when, after eight scant months, he was more or less forced to resign as editor of the New York Daily News by owner Mortimer Zuckerman. Hamill can perhaps put in a brotherly call to Michael Kelly, who was fired from his position as editor of the New Republic after only 10 months. "This is a journal of opinion, and the gap between his opinions and mine was increasingly wide," says the magazine...
...control more tightly the use of its prized seven-letter name. * Plus, centralization-or "increased coordination" as it is euphemistically called-is at the heart of Project ADAPT's mission. Frustration with trying to bringing Harvard's scattered schools closer together already caused the project's first director to resign this summer. * Rudenstine's brightest star this year should prove to be his bully pulpit. The president has spoken out rarely but has throughout his career favored two issues: the cost of higher education and the importance of diversity. * Both are now hot issues in Washington, and Rudenstine is using...
...control more tightly the use of its prized seven-letter name. * Plus, centralization-or "increased coordination" as it is euphemistically called-is at the heart of Project ADAPT's mission. Frustration with trying to bringing Harvard's scattered schools closer together already caused the project's first director to resign this summer. * Rudenstine's brightest star this year should prove to be his bully pulpit. The president has spoken out rarely but has throughout his career favored two issues: the cost of higher education and the importance of diversity. Both are now hot issues in Washington, and Rudenstine is using...
...growing popularity among war-weary Serbs today comes from her personal honesty and her willingness to stand up against the profiteering of the Karadzic clique. When she took over the Bosnian Serb Republic's presidency a year ago after the U.S. forced Karadzic to resign, she saw firsthand how deep the corruption ran. Karadzic and his allies still controlled the police, the media and the state-run businesses, which are the republic's key political institutions. "During the war, I was aware that many things were done in an illegal way," Plavsic said. "I justified it with the circumstances...