Word: resignation
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...flames of presidential speculation earlier this month with a trip to the key presidential-primary state of Iowa. Beyond embarrassing the second-term Senator, the revelation opened him to charges of hypocrisy: he had previously called on both President Bill Clinton and former Idaho Senator Larry Craig to resign after their own sex scandals. (See the top 10 political sex scandals...
...Senator Craig's conduct was] embarrassing not only to himself and his family but to the U.S. Senate." - Calling on Craig to resign following his arrest for allegedly soliciting sex in an airport bathroom (ABC's "This Week" via AP, Sept...
...think we are dealing with a very serious problem here. With what we know and what we already knew, to me, the honorable thing to do would be to resign." - Calling on President Clinton to resign during the Monica Lewinsky scandal (AP, Sept...
...London Bad News Blears Communities Secretary Hazel Blears became the fourth member of Prime Minister Gordon Brown's Cabinet to resign in a scandal over British lawmakers' lavish expenses that has implicated more than 200 of Parliament's 646 members. The crisis has prompted calls for the embattled Prime Minister's removal and reports of a likely government shake...
...Union of Students.OPENING UP A PAINFUL DIALOGUEThe administration had consistently stopped short of revoking a faculty member’s coveted tenure appointment on account of sexual harassment accusations, however. It would not make that move until early 1985, when Government Professor Douglas A. Hibbs Jr. was forced to resign, making him the third faculty member in the government department to be publicly accused of sexual misconduct in a six year period.“They were a huge deal,” Ann Pellegrini ’86, Radcliffe Union of Students President in 1985, said of the cases...