Word: resignations
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Israel's legal system presumes innocence, but in politics there's no such protection. If Netanyahu had become the first Prime Minister ever to be indicted, he would probably have been driven from office, even though the law does not require that he resign. The Knesset could impeach him with 80 votes of the 120 members or could force new elections for parliament and the post of Prime Minister with a simple majority...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: After eight years in which he became easily the most powerful man on the Religious Right, Ralph Reed has decided to resign as the executive director of the Christian Coalition to take a more direct hand in politics. Reed said Wednesday he will step down in September to form a political consulting firm called Century Strategies. For the highly ambitious Reed, the move frees him from the limitations imposed by the Coalition's tax-exempt status. As a religious organization, the group is prohibited from directly endorsing candidates, or having official ties to a political party, a line...
...logical to question whether it carried out the rest of her plan. McCurry argued that a memo from then director of administration David Watkins had stipulated that the computer file was not to be used for political purposes--although the fact that Watkins was subsequently forced to resign for misuse of government property did not help the press secretary's case. For her part, Scott seemed unfazed by either Watkins' warning or a similar one from the White House counsel's office; her most damaging memos were written months after theirs...
Sure, the U.S. Army should let Lieut. Emma Cuevas resign from the service so that she can regularly breast-feed her daughter [NATION, Feb. 24]. I'm certain Cuevas and her husband will gladly refund to the taxpayers the $500,000 wasted on her training because she wants to break her contract three years ahead of time. But wait a minute! Didn't I just see the couple walking out of the 7-Eleven with a can of baby formula? MARTIN ZAKALOWSKI Washington, Michigan...
...imitating life, those words, plus some sexually explicit terms that follow, got the real Leavitt in trouble all over again. Edward Kosner, editor in chief of Esquire, abruptly canceled the scheduled appearance of The Term Paper Artist in the April issue, causing the magazine's fiction editor to resign in high dudgeon and fueling literary gossip for weeks...