Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Henry Dunster was forced to resign as Harvard's president because he thought only adult believers should be baptized. Although he went through much grief because he voiced that conviction, he admirably stood up for the principle of toleration (not to mention the fact that he gave us that house down by the river...
...sector employees, which could be an indication the strike is going to continue for a while longer," says Paris bureau chief Thomas Sancton. Union leaders hope to draw 2 million people to the rally, and French Premier Alan Juppe has said a turnout that high would cause him to resign...
...married year) an alternately tearful and angry Enid Greene Waldholtz proceeded to tell her story of how she had been taken in by her husband, who is currently under federal investigation in a $1.7 million check-kiting scheme. In her rambling confessional, the Utah congresswoman said she will not resign, and attempted to give reporters a "full accounting" of how she says her husband duped her with a promised marriage gift of $5 million. "It was a virtuoso performance," says TIME's Nina Burleigh, "a remarkable combination of contrition and lawyerly acumen." It is also puzzling, says Burleigh...
...School of Design and the Business School in order to "cause the University Facilities people to realize the beauty and wonder of the architecture that has been passed on to them by their predecessors and stop the horrors of your destruction." In the same letter, Rice urged Goody to resign from her work on the Union...
Ending a six-week vacuum at its top post, NATO named Javier Solana of Spain as the new secretary-general of the 16-nation alliance. The choice closes a difficult period for the Alliance that started when Willy Claes was forced to resign October 20 in connection with a government corruption scandal in his native Belgium. After the nominations of former Dutch Prime Minister Ruud Lubbers and former Danish Foreign Minister Uffe Ellemann-Jensen were blocked, Solana emerged as the favorite last month. TIME's Jane Walker reports that the choice of Solana, a former history professor and Spain...