Word: resignations
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...Alemanno's comments were denounced by Jewish groups, surviving resistance leaders and members of the center-left opposition. Walter Veltroni, former Rome mayor and current head of the major center-left Democratic party, said he would resign from a city committee spearheading the building of a Holocaust memorial museum in protest...
...more unnerving than any one of the governor’s Christian-fundamentalist policy goals is the operating mechanism she sees compelling their implementation. Rather than resign herself—as Obama has—to seeking a functional agreement in a complex world, Palin would prefer to achieve cohesion and progress through simple homogeneity...
...Media, that made the shows, says it paid Samak around $2,300 for several appearances, an amount that the 73-year-old Premier maintains was used to buy ingredients and cover transportation costs. But the court didn't buy that argument, ruling that Samak and his entire cabinet must resign. "The defendant has violated Article 267 of the constitution, and his position as prime minister has ended," the head of the nine-judge panel, Chat Chonlaworn, declared, adding that the cabinet should remain as a caretaker for 30 days until a new p.m. takes office...
...Olmert earlier vowed to resign if he is indicted, and already his centrist Kadima party is preparing to replace him. A leadership battle is now underway within the party between Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and Transportation Minister Shaul Mofaz. Livni, who appears to have the edge, is campaigning on her clean record in contrast to Olmert's backroom politicking, while Mofaz, a former defense minister, is playing up his security credentials...
...Detroiters are happy, Barack Obama's campaign is thrilled. The Democratic nominee called on Kilpatrick yesterday to resign, saying through a campaign spokesman that "Mayor Kilpatrick's ongoing troubles and the serious charges against him have been a distraction that the city cannot afford." They have also proven to be a distraction Obama could not afford in a state that may be one of the nation's closest contests in November. Kilpatrick's very public troubles have angered many of the white suburban voters that Obama needs to win over. From an inauguration that was celebrated with official "club crawls...