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Just scant hours before Nichols ultimately announced his resignation, he was approached by current and former members of the UC’s executive board in an orchestrated attempt to force his resignation. His leadership, attendance, and dedication to the UC were questioned, and threats to embarrass him and his friends were issued. Ten UC representatives, the number required by the UC’s rules, were prepared to submit a petition of impeachment against him. It was under these circumstances that Ian Nichols resigned...

Author: By Jason L. Lurie, | Title: By Other Means: The Ouster of Ian Nichols | 5/20/2005 | See Source »

...CRUMB: Don't embarrass me. I know you love me, ok, alright. You're killing me you love me so much. Back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: R. Crumb Speaks | 4/29/2005 | See Source »

...after having spent five years hiding in the North Carolinian woods, also disclosed the location of more than 110 kilos of dynamite he had hidden there. His primary motivation, he wrote in a rambling and unrepentant manifesto released after his pleas, was to "confound, anger and embarrass" the U.S. government for legalizing abortion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

...Birmingham. Rudolph, who was caught in May 2003 after spending five years hiding in the North Carolina woods, disclosed the location of 250 lbs. of dynamite he had hidden there. His primary motivation, he said in a rambling, unrepentant statement released after his pleas, was to "confound, anger and embarrass" the U.S. government for legalizing abortion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Apr. 25, 2005 | 4/17/2005 | See Source »

...found the former chair unresponsive to its concerns. ("I don't want the government as my nanny," Powell said in 2001.) Winter, a lifelong Democrat who heads the PTC's Los Angeles and Alexandria offices (to Hollywood, he's the good cop to Bozell's bad cop), says, "We embarrass the FCC. We prove that they're not doing their job, and they are embarrassed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Decency Police | 3/20/2005 | See Source »

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