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...also comes a year after the general manager of the Krokodiloes was forced to resign after he apparently used $3,000 of the group's funds on personal expenses. In addition, last year's president and business manager of the Yearbook were forced to step down because of spending abuses...
...those concerns are highly overrated. After all, Buchanan has admitted that while growing up his family's heroes were Francisco Franco, Joseph McCarthy and Douglas McArthur, and no one who admires such great men could possibly be dangerous. The fact that Buchanan's campaign co-chair was forced to resign after being linked to white supremacist groups was obviously a result of the machinations of the liberal media...
...calls 'the monster'. Currently he is tied 1-1 against the worlds most potent chess computer, an IBM RS-6000SP named Deep Blue. In his first game, Kasparov tried a late game assault which might have rattled a human opponant, but Deep Blue remained unruffled and forced Kasparov to resign on move 37. In the second match yesterday, Kasparov offered Deep Blue short term advantages which weakened its overall position enough for him to force Deep Blue resignation on move 73 after five hours and forty five minutes of play. Kasparov claims that this tendency...
...accepted drug money during his 1994 campaign, President Ernesto Samper Pizano rejected calls to step down and suggested a referendum to let the people decide his fate. Critics denounced the plan as costly and having the potential to incite a civil war. Students and veterans demanded that Samper resign after his ex-campaign manager said the President had known the Cali cartel was funding his election bid with millions of dollars. Former campaign treasurer Santiago Medina fueled their anger by saying Samper personally gave the order to distribute some $400,000 of drug money for his campaign...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Rep. William Clinger, one of the principal Repubicans in Congress investigating the White House Travel Office scandal, said Monday that he would resign, in part to continue his job for months without the distractions of campaigning. "I've been here 18 years, and it's probably six or eight years longer than I intended to stay initially," said the nine-term Pennsylvanian, chairman of the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee, Congress' primary investigative panel. The 66-year-old Clinger is the third House committee chairman and the 12th House Republican to announce plans to retire or seek...