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...Pontiff chose the theme of life and death for his traditional Easter message, "Urbi et Orbi" (to the city of Rome and the world), saying Easter testifies that "God does not resign himself to man's death...
...interest rates, an indicator that Volcker's control over the board might be slipping. But only a few days later Volcker's most powerful sparring mate on the board, Vice Chairman Preston Martin, who has made no secret of his desire to succeed the chairman, suddenly announced plans to resign. In the end, the episode seemed to confirm Volcker's Herculean status...
When the board voted to make the cut anyway, many Federal Reserve staffers thought that Volcker might resign. But Newcomer Angell went to the chairman's office a few hours later and suggested a compromise. By the end of the day, the board assembled again at its dark mahogany table and suspended the rate cut so that Volcker could have more time to confer with foreign officials. Less than two weeks later, after West Germany and other countries had reduced their interest charges, the board unanimously voted to lower the discount rate...
...might then take over as Premier. But that outcome would lead to a power struggle between Mitterrand and Chirac that might go on for two years, or until the next presidential election. Mitterrand could, for instance, dissolve parliament and plunge the country into further political disarray. He could also resign, a course that he has threatened to pursue if his presidential powers are challenged. "I would prefer to renounce my position rather than the authority that goes with it," he said last week. "I am not going to be a cut-rate President...
Eventually, Nero's armies revolted and the Senate condemned him to be flogged to death with rods. He decided to resign from office by stabbing himself in the throat. At least suicide spared him the fate of some other toppled rulers -- the long twilight of exile, the sort of haunted afterlife endured by Napoleon, say, or the wandering Shah of Iran. Exile is not necessarily a fate worse than death, but there is something poignantly ignominious in the spectacle of the once all-powerful turned out to graze on their memories, their paranoid retrospections, in obscure pastures...