Word: resignations
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Whatever the eventual findings, Yasumoto Takagi, 73, the president of JAL, assumed full responsibility for the tragedy and told Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone that he would resign. Nakasone made no effort to dissuade him. High officials in Japan, whether governmental or private, consider it ethically mandatory to leave office when something goes disastrously wrong, even if they were not directly responsible...
Apparently stung by what he considered favoritism shown to Aquino among opposition leaders, Laurel abruptly demanded the resignation of Cecilia Munoz Palma, 73, head of the twelve-party organization known as the National Unification Committee, a body charged with hammering out the opposition ticket. Fumed Laurel: "You have shown partiality. You are a dictator. Why don't you resign now?" Munoz Palma complied, declaring, "I can now really speak my mind on who can lead the Filipino people." The two later made up, but by then a seven-party coalition had formed to press for Aquino's candidacy...
After wrestling through the fall with some nasty allegations about the integrity of one of its scholars, Harvard announced a resolution last week that satisfied no one. In a carefully worded statement, Dean A. Michael Spence disclosed that Professor Nadav Safran would resign this summer as director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, after a ten-week investigation into his acceptance of CIA money to support both a scholarly conference and his book...
...assure you, I will never surrender." GLORIA MACAPAGAL ARROYO, President of the Philippines, rejecting calls for her to resign amid allegations of election fraud...
...enemies. He can be quite taken with his own grandeur. Says a longtime associate: "I always thought he would have made a good Cardinal in 17th century France. He enjoys those European politics of powerful individuals gliding around, not having to worry about elections." Twice, Mandelson had to resign from Blair's government because of perceptions that he traded favors and influence with major Labour Party donors, although he was formally cleared in 2001 of using improper influence to obtain a British passport for the wealthy Indian businessman Srichand Hinduja. Yet Mandelson's pro-European views are long-established...