Word: resignment
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Even those few liberal Democrats like me who have argued that the president should resign or else be removed from office will be relieved when this is all over. We are exhausted from arguing with our friends and embarrassed to be associated with the likes of Tom DeLay and Bob Barr, whose hatred of the president changed the focus of this story from the president's lying to the Republicans' own bitter partisanship. It's been a very long year...
King's religious affiliation in particular was scrutinized after an election commission member was forced to resign after sending an e-mail message to the Harvard-Radcliffe Christian Fellowship list, asking for prayers for King and Driskell...
Meanwhile, the I.O.C. is scheduled to wrap up its internal review by Jan. 23. Members found to have solicited bribes may be forced to resign. A popular proposal, supported by the irrepressible 80-year-old Hodler, is that voting on host cities be limited to the executive board, which has 11 members...
...tall, thin frame into an attitude of perpetual anxiety and guilt. From beginning to end he imbues the play with a seemingly bottomless paranoic energy. This reaches its climax in the final, frightening soliloquy in which he attempts himself to become a rhinoceros, and failing, realizes he must resign himself to his uniqueness, his monstrosity, his humanity...
From the White House, Clinton himself picked up the narrative of this fevered impeachment day and twisted it again. He took the extraordinary step, by way of an announcement made by his press secretary, Lockhart, of urging Livingston not to resign. On the House floor, some Democrats did the same, hoping their words would somehow be taken as a white flag: We forgive you, forgive us. Livingston's resignation, after all, had suddenly become the best evidence that this whole Washington mess wasn't about lying after all--it was about...