Word: resignations
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...anti-junta coalition has vowed to continue holding protests until the coup leaders resign. On Monday, 5,000 Buddhists thronged in front of the Thai Parliament, some participating in a hunger strike to draw attention to their call for a state faith. It's unlikely, however, that this coterie of generals will bend to such wishes - or relinquish their own power so easily...
...Keohane played a central role in bringing about the end of the Summers presidency, discussing the possibility of asking him to resign three months before he was forced to do so, as The Crimson reported last year. Both Keohane’s supporters and critics say that her influence on the Corporation rose in that period...
...citizen, must be considered innocent until proven guilty, if these charges are proven true, they constitute an egregious and unacceptable abuse of public trust and power.” Jefferson’s office has declined requests for comment over the past two days. He is not expected to resign on account of the indictment announced Monday, though he did resign his seat on the Small Business Committee—the last committee seat he held—yesterday. Jefferson, a graduate of the historically-black Southern University, came to Cambridge in the fall of 1969, overlapping his time...
...Kirby informed his colleagues that he would create a summer committee to help resuscitate the review. But with Kirby set to resign, little power remained in the dean’s hands...
...search for Harvard’s 28th leader opened on Feb. 21, 2006, when Lawrence H. Summers was forced to resign after a drawn-out battle with professors in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. When Summers was named president in 2001, many believed the former Treasury secretary’s energy and reputation as an agent of change would make him one of Harvard’s greatest presidents. Instead, he left office after the shortest term of any Harvard president since the Civil...