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...years earlier, President Fernando Collor de Mello vowed to fight to the end against impeachment and removal from office. But Collor too saw many of his strongest supporters -- including even the politician who served as best man at his 1984 wedding -- turn against him. Many advised him to resign before he is thrown out and thus spare the nation a prolonged governmental paralysis. Collor's hopes of hanging on nearly disappeared last week when a congressional commission concluded after a three- month investigation that he and members of his family had received $6.5 million from his former campaign fund raiser...
...shown no desire to retake the power it held for 21 years before 1985. But Brazil's democracy is still such a fragile structure that a long and painful impeachment process could do irreparable harm. More and more Brazilians are convinced that the best solution is for Collor to resign. But that, Collor has said several times, he will never...
Together, Bush and Baker became men's doubles champions, and from that seed grew one of the most successful partnerships in American politics. As Bush observed last week, when he announced that Baker would resign as Secretary of State to replace Sam Skinner as his chief of staff, "He's the sort of man you want on your team." Make that running your team. Baker will direct not only the White House but also the Bush campaign, and will continue to oversee foreign policy, wielding such broad influence that some officials call him "Deputy President...
Those who dare "drop the flag" and resign from the gang face a brutal little ceremony called being "violated" or "jumped out." The precise ritual varies from gang to gang: sometimes each member of the gang, which may be several dozen strong, gets a free swing at the victim; other times four or five members are assigned to conduct the beating for a set amount of time. Whatever the punishment, the results are strikingly similar. "They give you a head-to-toe, which means you get your ass kicked," says Frank Perez, program director for the Chicago Commons Association gang...
...Newhouse moved again, in an editorial blitz that caused a sensation in the media world when it was revealed last week. He forced Gottlieb, 61, to resign in order to make way for the most unlikely editor the New Yorker has ever had: Tina Brown, 38, who arrived in the U.S. from her native Britain in 1984 and promptly transformed Newhouse's Vanity Fair from a faltering revival into the "hot book" of the magazine trade...