Word: resignment
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...scope of the issues directly relating to youth that the president will have to address over the next four years is staggering. There are four Supreme Court Justices over the age of 70 currently serving on the court. Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist is severely ailing and may resign within the year. The conservative justices President Bush will now almost certainly appoint will begin to build a conservative majority that could reverse the steps taken in Roe v. Wade, in affirmative action cases and in Title IX cases. This country is also currently fighting a war in which many young...
...defend Israelis against terrorist attacks and deflect international pressure on Israel to engage in peace talks. But while 60% of Israelis support the proposed withdrawal, Sharon faces escalating opposition from right-wing Israelis who condemn the plan and from some of his own Cabinet ministers, who have threatened to resign unless Sharon holds a national referendum. It's a sign of the fervor Sharon faces that an increasing number of right-wingers talk about him in terms usually reserved for Arafat. "Ariel Sharon is a dictator," says Elyakim Levanon, an influential settler rabbi. "He is breaking democracy in Israel...
...Likud party, Sharon faces political threats. Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reluctantly backed Sharon's disengagement bill in the Knesset but then said he'd resign in two weeks if Sharon didn't agree to put the entire plan to a national referendum. Briefly Netanyahu threatened to run against Sharon for the Prime Minister's job, though his aides backed off that remark...
...years ago, UN Weapons Inspector Jack McGeorge was nearly forced to resign when the Washington Post exposed his connections to SM/Leather/Fetish advocacy groups. Last month, a Kansas City Holiday Inn shut down a costume ball for fetish enthusiasts 24 hours before the event after a Fox News reporter called the hotel with a question about the party...
...have a friend take a picture of you extending dual middle fingers to all those cleverly chanting, “Who’s your daddy?” You resign yourself to being the one unsmiling person in every photograph someone will take of Harvard Square on the night of Wednesday, October 21st. (You feel no such anger towards those who dumbly started the chant “Four more games” as opposed to “Four more wins,” though...