Word: resignation
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Cabot House Masters Jay M. Harris and Cheryl L. Harris announced last night that they will resign their posts at the end of the current academic year, citing heavy responsibilities in other areas of their work...
Other students said that they could understand why Harris might want to resign...
...days following the abrupt decertification of the election results shortly before they were scheduled to be announced Thursday night, students struggled to understand the turmoil that had enveloped the process—dividing the UC’s Election Commission and prompting three members of the body to resign in protest of the decision...
...voted 4-3 in its meeting to decertify the previously released results of the election, spurring Seiler to resign in protest...
...shortly afterward. A famed 1925 military trial involved Billy Mitchell, an officer in the Army Air Corps who was tried for openly criticizing his superiors for failing to develop airpower fast enough. He was convicted and suspended from active duty with no pay for five years, prompting Mitchell to resign from the Army. The most notorious trial in modern times was that of former Lieutenant William Calley, who was found guilty of participating in the 1968 My Lai massacre in Vietnam. Calley was convicted in 1971 of killing 22 people during the massacre, which cost hundreds of lives...