Word: resignations
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Benjamin left his son virtually nothing in his will. William sailed from his native country in 1782 for exile in England. "I must resign myself," William wrote, "for the remaining Days of my Existence to that Solitary State which is most repugnant to my Nature." The elder Franklin had raised his son to be a loyal servant of the British Crown. He had done his job too well...
...Gujarat's Chief Minister, a chasm opened in the center of Indian politics that only Vajpayee could fill. Last month, when BJP president Venkaiah Naidu suggested that Deputy Prime Minister Advani should lead the party into a general election jointly with Vajpayee, the PM merely had to threaten to resign and Naidu backed down, apologized and offered to relinquish his own post. No one in India wants to be known as the man who brought down a Prime Minister whose approval ratings...
...TIME: The defense minister was forced to resign, but then the government cracked down on Tehelka...
...DIED. Donald Regan, 84, former U.S. Treasury Secretary and White House chief of staff; in Williamsburg, Virginia. Forced to resign in 1987 because of the Iran-contra scandal, Regan, who had previously headed Merrill Lynch, was the driving force behind the Ronald Reagan Administration's tax cuts and downsizing of government. After his resignation, Regan wrote an autobiography, which described his frequent clashes with First Lady Nancy Reagan and revealed her consultations with astrologers...
...place of endless sundowners and fluttering Union Jacks?as well as these characteristics, the archetypal Empire clubs, until the late-20th century, shared another: unwritten color bars. May Holdsworth, in her history of Hong Kong expatriate life, Foreign Devils, cites Anne Baker, a Eurasian whose white husband had to resign from the Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club in the 1950s upon marrying her. Also quoted is Michael Wright, a former government architect, who remembers that at the Hong Kong Club "there was nothing in the rules to say that Chinese couldn't join. It had simply been understood that...