Word: resignations
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Schwartz’s original decision to resign was influenced by “a review process that has previously been such a negative experience...
...that when you disagree with a law you work to change it, or - in the tradition of civil disobedience - you break it and suffer the consequences. So you can respect the city commissioner who didn't feel he could even implicitly endorse a gay marriage ban and would rather resign than pretend. But what happens if you let officials take office with an asterisk in their oath? That would "come perilously close to saying [that] in their duties they will ignore the law or alter the law when it conflicts with their personal principles," UW-Madison political science professor Howard...
Harvard Corporation member Nannerl O. Keohane, a former president of Duke and Wellesley and member of the current search committee, was often mentioned as a leading contender for the University presidency shortly after Summers announced his intention to resign. But in March she told The Boston Globe that she was “not available?...
...solves? That's the question Washington is pondering in the wake of a personnel whipsaw at the top of the Bush Administration. As the nation faces growing concern about its Iraq policy and the need for clear intelligence to counter terrorist threats, Director of Intelligence John Negroponte will resign, U.S. officials have confirmed, to take an appointment as the No. 2 official at the State Dept and deputy to Condoleezza Rice...
...instructed us to file a complaint at our earliest opportunity." Lunsford says Nifong, who would not comment on Friday, does not have to get a lawyer for his hearing, but that generally attorneys on misconduct charges do. All of this would be moot, of course, if Nifong were to resign from office or be forced off the case by the presiding judge. The North Carolina governor's office, which appointed him to the post, could also ask him to resign from office. Gov. Mike Easley declined to comment publicly Friday...