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...broadcast, Le Pen - favored to succeed her father Jean-Marie Le Pen as leader of the far-right National Front party - voices her outrage at Mitterrand's accounts, and demands he resign from the culture portfolio. Le Pen has been critical of public figures in France who rushed to defend Polanski following his arrest in Switzerland on U.S. arrest warrants for his 1997 guilty plea to criminal charges of having sex with a minor...
...John McCain, was a thinly veiled gripe about the President's appointment of a slew of policy coordinators tasked with everything from reforming health care to restoring the Great Lakes. The White House advisers drew wide attention earlier this month when green-jobs czar Van Jones was forced to resign after revelations of impolitic comments about Republicans and his support for a petition suggesting a government plot behind the Sept. 11 attacks. (Watch a video Q&A with Van Jones...
...Neville, who is still resisting calls to resign, ordered an immediate investigation into the case, and on Sept. 18, she announced a $67 million injection into the child protection workforce, which will include a specialist child protection intervention team and 200 additional workers. Her office did not respond to requests for an interview...
...professional life. “He simply asked for an opportunity to [serve in the military] with equality and honesty and was denied that opportunity,” Epstein said in an interview. Choi, who chose to fight his removal from the military rather than resign, said he does not yet know what type of military discharge he will receive, but he has already begun to prepare for potential appeals. In an interview with The Crimson before the event, Choi said he appreciated the stance Harvard has taken in not allowing the Reserve Officer Training Corps on campus because...
...having an impact. Along with St. Louis, Mo., blogger Jim Hoft, whose site is called Gateway Pundit, Beck pushed one of Obama's so-called czars, Van Jones, to resign during Labor Day weekend. Jones, whose task was to oversee a green-jobs initiative, turned out to be as enchanted by conspiracies as Beck - he once theorized that "white polluters and the white environmentalists" are "steering poison into the people-of-color's communities" and signed a petition demanding an investigation into whether the Bush Administration had a hand in the 9/11 attacks. On Sept. 14 the Senate overwhelmingly voted...