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...married year) an alternately tearful and angry Enid Greene Waldholtz proceeded to tell her story of how she had been taken in by her husband, who is currently under federal investigation in a $1.7 million check-kiting scheme. In her rambling confessional, the Utah congresswoman said she will not resign, and attempted to give reporters a "full accounting" of how she says her husband duped her with a promised marriage gift of $5 million. "It was a virtuoso performance," says TIME's Nina Burleigh, "a remarkable combination of contrition and lawyerly acumen." It is also puzzling, says Burleigh...
...School of Design and the Business School in order to "cause the University Facilities people to realize the beauty and wonder of the architecture that has been passed on to them by their predecessors and stop the horrors of your destruction." In the same letter, Rice urged Goody to resign from her work on the Union...
Ending a six-week vacuum at its top post, NATO named Javier Solana of Spain as the new secretary-general of the 16-nation alliance. The choice closes a difficult period for the Alliance that started when Willy Claes was forced to resign October 20 in connection with a government corruption scandal in his native Belgium. After the nominations of former Dutch Prime Minister Ruud Lubbers and former Danish Foreign Minister Uffe Ellemann-Jensen were blocked, Solana emerged as the favorite last month. TIME's Jane Walker reports that the choice of Solana, a former history professor and Spain...
Haynes said this and other incidents made her dread council and committee meetings, leading her to resign...
...against secession and 49.4% for it in a special plebiscite. The razor-thin margin consisted of just 52,448 votes out of almost 5 million cast; the 93.4% turnout was a record. One day later, Quebec Premier Jacques Parizeau, leader of the separatist Parti Quebecois, announced that he would resign before year's end. But charismatic Quebec politician Lucien Bouchard insisted that the cause of secession is not dead: "The next time will be the right one. And the next time may come sooner than people think...