Word: resignations
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Even in Washington, a city full of leaks, there are some secrets you can keep from the President. Last Thursday, when most of the city was focused on the possibility that Chief Justice William Rehnquist was about to resign from the Supreme Court, White House counsel Harriet Miers got a call from Pamela Talkin, head marshal at the Supreme Court, who told her that a sealed letter from the court would be delivered to the White House the next morning. Talkin did not say what would be in it. But Miers, like everyone else, knew that the resignation...
Clark, a devout Mormon who has served as dean for 10 years, abruptly announced his decision to resign on June 6, less than two weeks after he was asked by Gordon B. Hinkley, the president of the Mormon Church, to take the helm at BYU-Idaho...
...none of these controversies seems to have motivated his resignation. Lehman could not be reached for comment, but he told the Cornell Daily Sun that his resignation had been an “evolving decision” that “happened over a period of months.” He also said that he hadn’t been sure he would resign until after the school’s commencement events in late...
Peter C. Meinig, chairman of Cornell’s Board of Trustees, said in an interview with Inside Higher Ed that he appreciated Lehman’s decision to resign. He also noted that Lehman had been speaking with the Board about their differences for several months...
Summers, who has repeatedly affirmed that he has no plans to resign, received a lack-of-confidence vote from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on March 15. The Harvard Corporation—the University’s seven-member governing body that has the sole power to remove the president—has consistently voiced its support for Summers throughout the crisis...