Word: resignations
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...time G.O.P. senators met last week to elect a replacement for Bob Dole as majority leader, the result was a foregone conclusion. Which is exactly how Trent Lott had planned it. After Dole's surprise announcement in May that he would resign from Congress, the second-term Senator from Mississippi with made-for-TV hair needed just one day of lobbying his colleagues to be confident of victory. "I work fast," said Lott, who also talks fast, after he swamped fellow Mississippian Thad Cochran by a vote of 44 to 8. "I probably talked to 40 Senators within 24 hours...
...Council sponsored a resolution to raise the number of students from three to five in order to have equal representation on a committee that overlooks an activity in which a quarter of Harvard students participate. The Faculty defeated the proposal, prompting two of three students on the committee to resign. The committee continued meeting without the students. We are not sure where public service is going at this University (we don't think it's anywhere good), but we urge the powers-that-be to keep it in the hands of the students and integrate it into the curriculum; after...
...someone to share the long walk from the Quad. When the vice chair position became vacant, Ty Sheppard nominated Thomas, an energetic supporter of The Cause, to fill it. She was vice chair for a year and a half, and then, she says with a laugh, "I tried to resign, and got stuck with social chair." Thomas had a great time working with the BGLSA, but she qualifies her role: "I don't know if coming to meetings every week and sitting on the laps of gay boys did anything." It's hard to get things done at Harvard...
When Rudenstine appointed Green to the newly-created provost position in 1991, he could not have envisioned that Green would resign abruptly and mysteriously in April 1994, just as the capital campaign was about to launch...
...work force ever more technologically complex? Can they convince the rest of the country (and humanities majors' parents, who wonder just what that $100,000 tuition is going toward) that a humanistic education is valuable even though it does not create ready-made employees? Or must liberal arts schools resign themselves to strictures of practicality and subscribe to the principle of "operational utility," defined by Michael R. Harris as a mandate implying "that the raison d'etre of a college or university consists in serving the immediate needs of society...