Word: resignations
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...Harvard allows you to take an extended leave for high level public service for two years and that’s typically done, so I wouldn’t expect him to resign,” Stock said...
...curing stem cells from a cloned human embryo. However, mere months later, Hwang's reputation dissolved after a Seoul National University panel concluded that much of his research was "intentionally fabricated." Hwang was accused of doctoring pictures of his supposed patient-specific stem-cell lines and was forced to resign. Though the controversy stunned South Korea, the nation resumed its cloning research, and in 2008 it unveiled seven Labrador retrievers, cloned from a drug-sniffing canine, that shared her superior narcotic-detecting abilities...
...member of the curricular review’s Committee on General Education, chaired by then-FAS Dean Kirby, but Summers was soon pressured by Faculty members to bow out.The ongoing tension between Summers and members of the Faculty was further strained by Kirby’s sudden decision to resign in January 2006.Though Summers and Kirby never publicly acknowledged their falling-out, sources close to the central administration said at the time that Summers had forced him out.Following Kirby’s resignation, former dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Peter T. Ellison wrote in a statement...
From a theoretical standpoint, the frank discussion of ideas can only help our society in the long run. It is critical that the market of ideas be kept as diverse and as lively as possible, and that cultural conventions not be allowed to resign the United States to intellectual stagnation, as has happened in the past. As a country, we’ve never needed a robust market of ideas more, and nothing fosters such a market more than candid dialogue...
...negative publicity is having an effect on both companies and individuals. Scott Eckern, artistic director of the California Musical Theatre in Sacramento, whose $1,000 donation was listed on ElectionTrack, chose to resign from his post this week to protect the theater from public criticism. Karger says a "soft boycott" his group had started against Bolthouse Farms - which gave $100,000 to Prop. 8 - was dropped after he reached a settlement with the company. Bolthouse Farms was to give an equal amount of money to gay rights political causes. The amount ultimately equaled...