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...that startled ordinary citizens and politicians alike, the leadership of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party last week selected a little-known veteran politician, former Deputy Premier Takeo Miki, 67, as its president. When the Japanese Diet convenes this week for a special session at which Kakuei Tanaka will formally resign as Premier, the L.D.P. majority will ensure the election of Miki as Japan's twelfth postwar head of government...
...personal failings some reflection of the failings of the system he represented in the press and in the public mind. Whitney's image as the White Knight of American capitalism was so ingrained that members of the SEC seriously considered letting him replace the embezzled money quietly and resign, in order to preserve public confidence. And, after an initial orgy of gloating in the press, public reaction swung sharply to Whitney's side, and began to see a stoic martyr where there was really only a self-deluded man who believed--until the last minute his world collapsed--that Jersey...
SEVERAL WEEKS AGO, Derrick A. Bell, Jr., the Law School's only black professor, wrote a confidential letter to his colleagues protesting Law School hiring practices. Bell warned that unless the number of minority faculty increased, he might resign...
Harvard may win a national championship this season. Whatever the record of this fine team may be, I intend to enjoy watching them play, and success would please no fan more than myself. But I'm afraid I must resign myself to having my enjoyment diminished by the rude, stupid behavior of a few imbeciles who don't seem to understand what the sport is about. Sincerely, Stephen Spaulding...
...weeks after Richard Nixon resigned last August, the editors of Bungei-Shunju, a respected Tokyo-based monthly, decided to do a little Watergate-style digging into the shady financial dealings of their own chief executive. Largely as a result of those excavations, Premier Kakuei Tanaka was forced last week to resign...