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Seven presidents have since served the institution, averaging tenures of 17 years. Linda S. Wilson announced her intention to resign in June. Harvard and Radcliffe officials announced jointly that a new Radcliffe Institute will be led by a dean who reports to the University president...
...York's police headquarters in the past two weeks. The protests are designed to pressure the police department--and especially Mayor Rudolph Giuliani--into addressing racism and brutality in the ranks. And New York City public advocate Mark Green last week called on Police Commissioner Howard Safir to resign, saying Safir has failed to deal adequately with the allegations against his department...
...Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, who can hardly contain his excitement: "We have a great opportunity because our odds are exponentially increased by open seats. In 1998, Democrats won 11 of the 18 competitive seats available. Moreover, several of the Republican incumbents who have signed the pledge to resign in 2000 represent districts that President Clinton carried in 1996, among them Tom Coburn, Jack Metcalf and George Nethercutt...
...first-year representative, Francesca Petrosino, grew so infuriated last month when the council rejected a binding referendum on how to spend the council's recovered $40,000 that she decided to resign. In her resignation letter, Petrosino recalled her disgust at the debate about that referendum: "I watched elected representatives fool themselves that they somehow were more entitled to make a decision allocating the 40k than the students they claimed to care so much about. We are nothing without them, yet we think and behave as though they don't matter once they give us their vote...
...forced to resign from his position at Children's Hospital--an affiliated hospital of HMS--in February 1998 when the foundation's board of directors charged that since January 1995, he had been wrongfully "double billing" both the foundation and his hosts for travel expenses to speaking engagements in places including Bombay, Maui, Vienna and Versailles...