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...that hemophiliacs in France are hurling at doctors and government officials after it was revealed that the country's National Center of Blood Transfusion (CNTS) had knowingly distributed AIDS-contaminated blood products to hemophiliacs in 1985. The scandal, which broke two months ago, prompted the center's director to resign, and an official government investigation is under...
...another side to Bush that emerges, albeit reluctantly, when he thinks the national interest is being harmed. It was Bush, as Republican National Committee chairman back in the summer of 1974, who looked across the Cabinet table at Richard Nixon and made it plain that he ought to resign for the good of the country. It was Bush, as Vice President, who summoned Regan to his office in 1987 and put the final pressure on him to leave, enduring Regan's tirade but never yielding...
Give belated credit once again to the unheralded Jerry Ford. Having trouble with the strong-willed James Schlesinger, who then was Secretary of Defense, Ford called him in one Sunday morning in 1975 and asked for his resignation. Give credit to Schlesinger, who refused to resign and insisted he be fired. Ford obliged...
When Putnam announced his decision to resign last month, many inside the University were nevertheless surprised. Few suspected that the institution's problems ran so deep...
When Alan C. Heimert '49 announced in February that he would resign from his role as master of Eliot House, the ensuing search had all the hallmarks of a typical Harvard selection: a tight-lipped advisory committee, frequently-made but scarcely-followed deadlines, and students left in the dark...