Word: resignations
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...adviser in 2000, he has been outspoken in his efforts to curb state interference in the economy, especially in the all-important energy sector. "He's one of the smartest people in Russia," says William Browder, founder of a Moscow-based investment fund. But last week Illarionov, 44, abruptly resigned. "When I took the job, we spoke about pursuing a liberal economic policy," he explained. "Now, the state has evolved in quite the opposite direction." In an interview with Time, he implied that he had been under pressure to stop speaking out. "My job assumed the ability to hold free...
...human volunteers were phony, which led to a retraction. But when a panel at Seoul National University ruled last week that not just the pictures but much of the data in the Science paper had been faked as well, Woo Suk Hwang, South Korea?s cloning superstar, had to resign...
...requires anyone who has a federal appointment to resign, so it’s assumed that Hastert would not give up his seat in Congress and his speakership to be a temporary president until, you know, the real president took office,” Posner told Rose, according to a transcript of the show...
...still think he should resign,” Matory said of Summers...
...Sandy Smith, and Managing Editor Henry Grunwald, TIME did a sterling job covering Watergate. It was the only publication (according to Woodward and Bernstein's book, All the President's Men) that could keep up with Washington Post on the story. Henry, of course, wrote the famous "Nixon should resign" editorial, and Sandy was the grizzled mafialogist and investigative reporter from the Chicago Tribune and LIFE Magazine who had the sources in the FBI and elsewhere and kept breaking stories. But Hugh was the one who kept pushing the story with the editors in New York, fighting for space, telling...