Word: resignations
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...building is in for a renovation. It was “a space that [was] not clearly Law School,” said Brandon L. Douglass, a second-year law student who served as the club’s president before HL Central’s involvement prompted his resignation. Founded in 1907 by a handful of men with their own personal cook, Lincoln’s Inn Society expanded over the course of the century in response to its rising popularity as a haven for harried law students. But of late, the club has watched its membership dwindle...
...What do you think "accepting responsibility" means? Attorney General Alberto Gonzales accepted responsibility [for dismissing eight U.S. Attorneys last month], but he wasn't fired. -Fred Judd, Irvine, Calif. It does not always mean that one has to resign his or her job. Human beings are going to make mistakes. I always told my own staff that I did not expect them to be perfect. I expected them to make mistakes. And, in fact, if they didn't, it might just mean that they weren't attempting great things...
...allow top aide Karl Rove and other White House aides to testify under oath "because he's trying to cover up the reasons for the firings," not because he "wants to preserve the Constitution's separation of powers." A slight plurality, 39%-36%, believe Attorney General Alberto Gonzales should resign...
...different. This time the source of his fury was not Indian farmers, but its cricketers whose disastrous performance at the World Cup - losses to neighbors Bangladesh and Sri Lanka - meant an early return home from the competition. After lambasting the players, Tiwari called on India's agriculture minister to resign, not forgetting, of course, that the relevant minister also sits on the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). Leaving aside their special interests for a moment, Tiwari wrote that farm activists "termed this defeat as national shame...
...ended four years ago, the poor performance has been cause for despair even - or perhaps especially - amongst those for whom despair has become a way of life. So far, save a few demonstrators holding up signs calling on the coach Greg Chappell or the captain Rahul Dravid to resign, and a few cases where pictures of players were set alight for the cameras, that despair has not turned into violence. Most people seem depressed more than angry...