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Gomes advocated recognition of war dead on both sides but when President Neil L. Rudenstine withdrew support for this position, Gomes was left "holding the bag," Slayton said...
...master's candidate expressed regret at losing the post, saying that his students "would have had a great year," but added he withdrew to prevent "a political war" in the department...
...enemy ranks is a cause for celebration. President Clinton and his legal team should have been exultant last week when the attorneys for Paula Corbin Jones, who is suing the President for allegedly making a crude sexual advance in an Arkansas hotel room six years ago, abruptly withdrew from the case, citing "fundamental differences" with their client. The lawyers, Joseph Cammarata and Gilbert Davis, had been representing Jones for three years, so their sudden exit just eight months before the scheduled trial seemed to suggest that all the steam had gone out of her case...
...until the end of August when he withdrew from the race, Rep. Joseph P. Kennedy II (D-Brighton) had been able to bridge the gap between the two constituencies...
...Most accused of all were her constant pursuers: the "ever-present paparazzi," who turned Diana into "the most hunted person of the modern age." The Earl, who pointedly withdrew the invitations of six British tabloid editors yesterday, wondered aloud why her "good intentions were sneered at by the media." Though in the end, when he came to the "small mercies" of his loss, Spencer dropped his sword ? and simply reminded us of all the humanity that is not apparent on the cover of a newspaper...