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Dates: during 1990-1999
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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...

Author: By Philip P. Pan, | Title: K-School Dean Resigns After a Rough Two Years | 6/6/1991 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Joanna M. Weiss, | Title: One Master, Two Master, Old Master, New Master | 6/6/1991 | See Source »

Some Bush Administration insiders are acidly recounting the irony of a blunt lecture John Sununu delivered to former Education Secretary Lauro Cavazos last December. When the chief of staff summoned the ineffectual Cabinet member and asked him to resign, Sununu included a few sharp comments on Cavazos' travel habits. The Secretary usually took along his wife Peggy Ann, and is suspected of paying her fares with frequent-flyer credits he earned on official business -- an apparent violation of federal rules requiring those bonuses to be turned over to the government. The couple also preferred to travel on TWA, even when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cancel Our Reservations | 5/27/1991 | See Source »

...Union Leader. He added that "from what I know," Loon Mountain's proposed expansion "falls into that category." It is mildly ironic that one of the founders of the Loon Mountain resort is Sununu's political idol, Sherman Adams, Dwight Eisenhower's former special assistant, who was forced to resign that position in 1958 because he accepted a vicuna coat and other gifts from a Boston industrialist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fly Free Or Die | 5/13/1991 | See Source »

...ever have any regrets about your decision to resign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shevardnadze Speaks Out | 5/13/1991 | See Source »

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