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...violence, by 2 pm -- the same time when all armed rebels were ordered to surrender their weapons. At least 14 people have been killed and an estimated 150 injured since protests turned violent Feb. 28. Berisha's announcement Saturday that Prime Minister Aleksander Meksi and his Cabinet would resign failed to calm the public fury. On Sunday, state television showed angry protesters looting an army arsenal in southern Albania and walking away with weapons. Outside Vlora, crowds broke into and ransacked President Berisha's summer home. Berisha is blaming the violence on his political rivals, including the socialists, the successors...
...will not be so lucky. Ten bankers and government officials were already indicted last week on charges of taking or giving millions of dollars in bribes to arrange government loans to Hanbo Steel Industry Co., and after the president's speech, all twelve of his senior secretaries offered to resign. Resignations also were expected to be offered by his Cabinet and key leaders of the ruling New Korea Party. But Kim's shakeup is unlikely to end the scandal. Opposition leaders, unimpressed, are holding out for an independent prosecutor to reinvestigate, a request they say Kim has repeatedly denied...
...know how to bluff (fabricate a conflict to escape a section with a dismal teaching fellow); you do not know whether trading in your cards (switching sections) will net you a better hand (TF); and you have to know when to walk away and give up the fight (resign yourself to the fact that there is no room in the best section, that the class lacks a single good section leader or that the head TF will not accept as a conflict your standing 3 p.m. nap). Trying unsuccessfully to change sections can make you feel...
While deadlines for international travel grants or chic internships at Wall Street investment banking firms may have passed, it's not yet time to resign yourself to another summer of bookkeeping at Uncle Steve's dental practice...
...molested by her school's vice principal in his office in 1992. After winning a guilty plea from the vice principal, the girl's attorney went after two of his former employers, claiming they failed to point out in their reference letters that he had been forced to resign from both districts because of allegations of sexual misconduct with students. The suit was eventually thrown out of court, but was unanimously reinstated today after several years of legal action. The girl's lawyer, Scott Righthand, maintained today's ruling, "goes a long way to protect children in this state...