Word: resignations
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...Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian is seeing red these days, he can blame Shih Ming-teh. Shih was once chairman of Chen's Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). But for weeks now he has been leading crimson-clad demonstrators in protest to force the President to resign over corruption allegations against him, his aides and his relatives (they deny any wrongdoing). Shih, 65, spoke with Time's Natalie Tso about Chen, Taiwan's democracy, and his "red revolution...
...Kuomintang (KMT), which the DPP ousted, also had corruption issues. The DPP can't say: "Since the KMT did it, why can't I?" That's why the people took power from the KMT. If we don't make Chen resign, people will say, "He could do it, so why can't I?" [Then] we will never have clean politics...
...hurt Taiwan society. There will of course be people who think that way. Eighty-seven people were carried away by the police. That's probably what influenced public opinion. They didn't listen when we told them not to lie on the streets ... But if President Chen doesn't resign, there will be no peace and stability in Taiwan...
...hotel room and watched live coverage from Ramallah, where Hamas supporters in green hats were dancing in the streets, and from Gaza City, where members of the rival Fatah party were firing guns into the air and calling for Fatah loyalist Mahmoud Abbas to resign as president of the Palestinian Authority, I remember saying aloud, “This is not good.” I was thinking about Israel when I said it; I didn’t know how bad the Hamas victory would be for the Palestinians...
...think Republican House Speaker Dennis Hastert should resign as Speaker because of his handling of the Foley case...