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...serving a prison term. As previously released documents now indicate, the day after Lam informed DoJ of her plans to execute a search warrant on Foggo, Kyle Sampson, chief of staff to Gonzales, e-mailed William Kelley, the deputy White House counsel, telling him that Lam should be gotten rid of. "Please call me at your convenience to discuss the following," Sampson wrote in his e-mail to the White House. He then cited a "real problem we have right now with Carol Lam that leads me to conclude that we should have someone ready to be nominated on 11/18...
...wind blows, trying to play both sides of every issue. He is the poster child for term limits in our Congress. He is still there because he is working the system for his own good, rather than for the benefit of the American people. How do we get rid of him? Boyce Abbott Chicago...
...arrived at J. Crew with a down-and-out story of his own, having weathered a two-year slump and ouster at Gap, the company he built into a $14 billion icon over 19 years, most spent as president and ceo. Today, while Gap flails--in January it got rid of Paul Pressler, the CEO brought in to replace Drexler--J. Crew, with only 226 stores, is one of few companies in the overdeveloped specialty-apparel arena with the potential for real growth...
...position usually occupied by retired co-chairs partying away their senior springs. While that period marked a lull in my involvement, I still had non-recycling roommates to berate and sarcastic quips to mutter at EAC board meetings. Oh, and I had to lead a one-man campaign to rid Kirkland Dining Hall of plastic cups. Instead of shouting “Those are made of dinosaurs’ bones!” I politely asked that the cups be relocated. Sometimes, yelling is the only way to be heard; here, civility paid off, and use declined significantly. Working with...
...leave or told they could not return after disciplinary suspensions. "We all saw the push-out going on," she recalls. "It was almost a joke. In front of the faculty of 150, Anderson would say 'get your attendances in. If the students have excessive absences, we can get rid of them and send them to the school of far, far away.'" The school of far, far away, she explains, was a euphemism for getting rid of problem students...