Word: resignations
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...Propulsion Laboratory (the glaciers? speedup was detected with a satellite). Just a couple of weeks ago, another NASA scientist named James Hansen claimed he?d been silenced by the agency for speaking out about evidence for global warming; the resulting furor led the NASA official who was involved to resign. Hansen?s commentary on the Greenland result appears here. And when Rignot was asked yesterday whether anyone at the agency had tried to shut him up, he said he?d been subjected to no such pressure...
...former dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) told The Crimson yesterday that Lawrence H. Summers should resign from his post as University president—becoming the highest-profile Harvard affiliate to call for Summers to step down since Corporation member Conrad K. Harper issued the same demand last summer.The former dean, Peter T. Ellison, said the reason he left his administrative position last spring was because he could not work alongside Summers. And he said the character of the president’s leadership may better suit Washington, where Summers served as Treasury secretary...
...Though the statement—which was e-mailed to professors last night and released to The Crimson—never uses the word “resign,” several council members have indicated that they want Summers to leave office...
Fisher, who last February became the first Faculty member to publicly call on Summers to resign, has long been an outspoken critic of the president’s leadership. He told the Yale Daily News that “Harvard is becoming a dictatorship,” and he told both the Yale student paper and the Boston Globe that he was looking for jobs outside of Harvard...
...energized Faculty uprising against Summers was triggered by the Jan. 27 resignation of Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby. The Crimson reported that the president forced Kirby to resign, citing four individuals close to the central administration...