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...Congressman tells Allen "You're fired" no fewer than six times in three minutes. A spokesman for the Florida Democratic Party late Wednesday afternoon refused to comment on the allegations against Mahoney. By early Thursday morning, the Palm Beach County Republican Party issued a statement calling on Mahoney to resign...
...quite what they used to be: then inflation was 2.1 million percent, thousands of people were killed in terrorist violence and corruption scandals tarnished Garcia and many of his closest advisors. But this time, they seem to be hitting all at once and have forced Garcia's Cabinet to resign and have the president groping for ways to refine his administration. And the country's murderous bugaboo, the guerrillas of the Shining Path, have chosen this moment to stage their biggest attack in years...
...made his rep, or his rap sheet, with ferocious retakes of recent American history: the Vietnam War in Platoon, Born on the Fourth of July and Heaven and Earth; the investigation of the John F. Kennedy assassination in JFK; and, in Nixon, the life of the only President to resign his office. All those subjects allowed for a certain ambiguity, but Stone - a dramatist first, dispassionate chronicler never - pushed political views that might have been lopsided but usually resulted in terrific films with an adrenaline rush...
...Zuma's supporters last month forced Mbeki to resign as President of South Africa, putting the caretaker figure of ANC national chairman Kgalema Motlanthe into the position until next year's general election, which Zuma's supporters expect...
...their members opposed was viewed as a major betrayal of the movement by many conservative activists. "The incompetence of Boehner and Blunt and their team is beyond belief," says Richard Viguerie, head of ConservativeHQ.com. "For the good of their party and the good of their country, they should resign immediately from their leadership positions...