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TIME.com: Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble plans to resign by July 1 if the IRA doesn't start decommissioning its weapons. Is there even the slightest possibility that decommissioning may begin by that date...
...There is some concern that all of the Unionists, not just Trimble, may resign from the Northern Ireland Governing Authority. If he is the only one who resigns, the British and Irish governments have until August 12 to find an agreement to keep the government from collapsing. But if they all resign, the governments will have to move much faster and it will all be more of a mess. It's possible that some kind of a deal can be worked out, but I think it's unlikely...
...Mount Holyoke will too. As part of a formal investigation, students who took Ellis' Vietnam course will be contacted to determine the severity of the lies. Some colleagues suspect that Ellis will resign before the investigation is complete. "He's devastated by this," says O'Shea. Academics, and historians in particular, traditionally think of truth as their gospel and the classroom as their church. "Knowingly being dishonest in class is just as great an act of moral turpitude as being knowingly dishonest or inaccurate in your written work," says David Garrow, a Pulitzer prizewinning historian at Emory University...
...resulted in poor newsstand sales and her departure from the building to make way for GLENDA BAILEY, editor of Marie Claire, the somewhat less refined fashion magazine that has seen rising circulation since Bailey inherited the post in 1996 from BONNIE FULLER, who two weeks ago was asked to resign as editor of Glamour, where she spiced things up with more stories about sex but angered her bosses when she unsuccessfully tried to get out of her contract to take the top job at Bazaar, which Betts got instead. Still with us? The top Glamour job will...
When University President Neil L. Rudenstine announced last May that he would resign effective June 30, 2001, it soon became clear that the search for Harvard’s 27th president would be unlike any other search before. The nine-month long search for Harvard’s 27th president would take the nine search committee members all over the country—from Stanford to Cornell to Columbia and Yale—and would require months of research and thousands of pages of secret communications. Technology would be used as never before, and for the first time, a woman...