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...Pitino left the university. Tim Sypher delivered the list to Pitino on March 6 in West Virginia, where Louisville had a game to clinch the Big East regular season championship. Two weeks later, according to the complaint, Karen Sypher hired an attorney who expanded the allegations against Pitino and withdrew the earlier demands in lieu of a new demand for $10 million...
...Nepal had yet to be defined. Prachanda then precipitated the crisis by trying to replace Katawal with the more pliable Lieut. Gen. Kul Bahadur Khadka. However, the Maoists' leftist allies in the legislature disagreed with the decision and, on Sunday, the Communist Party of Nepal and the Sadbhavana Party withdrew support from the government. Prachanda had two choices then: to attempt to set up an autocracy or to follow democratic principles. Prachanda announced his decision the next day: "I have resigned from the post of prime minister from today for the protection of democracy and peace...
...There is near consensus among sources inside and outside the Administration that the President will pick a woman. George W. Bush replaced one of the court's two women, Sandra Day O'Connor with a man, Justice Samuel Alito, after Bush's legal counsel, Harriet Miers, withdrew under attack from the right. The other near-absolute requirement will be relative youth, as Obama and the Democrats will want to ensure a left-of-center voice for decades to come on a court featuring two relatively young conservative justices, Alito and Chief Justice John Roberts. (See pictures of John Roberts...
...Attempted to run for the Republican presidential nomination in 1995, saying the country needed an alternative to increasingly religious conservatives. He withdrew within the year due to lack of funds...
...British Telecom. Accountants are still trying to unravel years of fraudulent accounting; bidders had little access to reliable financial data, and there is additional risk of class-action suits and litigation in the U.S. relating to the fraud. Other interested buyers, including IBM and India's Spice Group, withdrew because of the uncertainties. "It's a very risky bet," says New Delhi-based equities analyst Dhirendra Kumar. "The reward or penalization could match the risk." Tech Mahindra has yet to issue a comment, but Satyam has said in a statement that the deal 'signals a new stage for the company...