Word: resignations
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Professor of Biology Fotis C. Kafatos, a developmental biologist, will resign his position at Harvard after this semester to become director-general of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), faculty members said yesterday...
Well...maybe they didn't all view Restic as the greatest thing to happen to Harvard football since Percy Haughton (three national titles between 1910-13), but many of his players spoke with emotion and respect--if not always surprise--about Restic's announcement that he would resign at the end of the 1993 season...
...progression from shock to anger was most obvious. Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen admitted to being "deeply troubled" at conflicting statements on whether the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms knew Koresh had been tipped off before its initial February raid; ATF head Stephen Higgins promptly expressed a willingness to resign. And during a hearing in the House, Michigan Congressman John Conyers Jr. exploded at Attorney General Janet Reno, calling the government's actions "a profound disgrace to law enforcement" and implying she was trying to "rationalize" the deaths. With emotion, Reno responded, "I feel more strongly about ((them)) than...
...hearing on the Waco disaster last week, Reno found herself under fire from Congressman John Conyers Jr. The outcome at Waco, Conyers declaimed, was "a profound disgrace to law enforcement in the United States of America." As for Reno, he continued, "You did the right thing by offering to resign. And now I'd like you to know that there is at least one member of Congress that isn't going to rationalize the death of two dozen children...
Protest itself is nothing new to Commencement. For Law School graduates, it's practically a tradition. Last year, Law School students booed loudly when Dean Robert C. Clark stepped to the podium. They carried placards that read, "HLS Discriminates," "Resign Dean Clark" and "Dean--let me tell you about self-esteem." They held up a giant banner that blared, "Down with--Discrimination!!! Down with--The Dean!!!" Clark seemed unfazed; he tipped his hat politely to the crowd...