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...through the end of the current academic year, which ends June 30. Medical School Dean Joseph B. Martin said last fall that he intends to step down on June 30 as well, and the dean of the Graduate School of Design, Alan A. Altshuler, has also announced plans to resign...
...personal lapse of judgment." Then, he pledged to work hard at "reconciling" and regaining the trust of citizens and his staff. The briefing lasted just minutes. No questions were taken leaving pundits, politicos and regular San Franciscans shaking their heads wondering about what's next for Newsom. Will he resign? How will this homegrown scandal impact his upcoming re-election - or any future bid for higher office...
DIED. Dale Noyd, 73, decorated Air Force captain and longtime Air Force Academy teacher who in 1966 drew worldwide attention as a humanist and conscientious objector to one war: Vietnam; of emphysema; in Seattle. After the Air Force refused his request to resign his commission based on his belief that the war was illegal and immoral, he filed a suit against the Pentagon that the Supreme Court declined to hear. Around the same time, he was court-martialed for refusing to train a pilot destined for Vietnam, sentenced to a year in jail and dishonorably discharged...
...charmed, and sometimes cowed, colleagues with his clerical clothing--he said he had no other suits--and was the first to call for Richard Nixon's impeachment, over the U.S.'s secret bombing of Cambodia. He left politics in 1980, after Pope John Paul II ordered him to resign, citing a canon law barring priests from elective office...
...surprisingly forceful conservative voice on the court who sways Scalia rather than the other way around and who pushes more moderate Justices leftward in reaction. Greenburg also shows that when William Rehnquist fell ill but didn't step down, Sandra Day O'Connor was effectively forced to resign early to avoid the possibility of a double vacancy on the court. O'Connor, who snipes with Scalia in the book, is frank about the court's infamous Bush v. Gore ruling: "Given more time, I think we probably would've done better...