Cabinet shuffle welcome: Three departures create opportunities
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Throughout President Bush&#39;s first term, only one Cabinet member - Treasury Secretary Paul O&#39;Neill - resigned. After such a prolonged period of stability, it&#39;s not surprising that the weeks following Bush&#39;s
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Description: Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson becomes the eighth member of President Bush&#39;s Cabinet to resign since the election.
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Tommy Thompson, US secretary of health and human services, resigned yesterday, marking the latest departure in a broad reshuffling of President George W. Bush&#39;s cabinet as he prepares for a second term.
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Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi reshuffled his cabinet yesterday, replacing several top ministers in an effort to boost his popularity, consolidate political support and quicken the pace of reforms in the world&#39;s second-largest economy.
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Japanese cabinet ministers tendered their resignations on Monday, setting the stage for Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi to make new appointments aimed at boosting his
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Â·  Chief negotiator resigns after rift on strategyÂ·   Doubts surround future of foreign minister
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Education Secretary Rodney Paige has  been discussing his departure with the White House, U.S.  officials said on Friday, marking another in a series of  post-election changes in President Bush's Cabinet.
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President Bush announced Thursday he was keeping the heads of the Transportation, Interior, Housing and Labor departments, ending the major shake-up that will put new faces on three-fifths of his Cabinet in his second term.
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The White House yesterday signaled that the remolding of President Bush&#39;s Cabinet is nearly finished, with word that four additional members will remain on a team that is critical to advancing the president&#39;s agenda.
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In historical terms, the wave of departures from President Bush&#39;s first-term Cabinet and his choices to replace them for his second are a narrative of continuity rather than change.
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DAMASCUS -- President Bashar Assad shuffled his Cabinet yesterday, just weeks after the United States and the United Nations challenged Syria over its military presence in Lebanon and the security situation along its border with Iraq.
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Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski shook up his Cabinet on Friday, dumping his coalition partner and bringing back his pro-market finance chief in a move that could lead to new elections.Comment
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Departing members of President Bush's Cabinet will not have to scour the classifieds to find plum jobs. Secretary of State Colin Powell can revive a lucrative book-writing and public speaking career. Homeland Defense Secretary Tom Ridge and Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson will be highly sought in the corporate world because of their background and connections.
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President Bush&#39;s expected Cabinet shake-up began in earnest Tuesday with the resignation of controversial US Attorney General John Ashcroft and longtime Texas friend Don Evans, the commerce secretary.
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YANGON: A cabinet reshuffle in Myanmar has strengthened the hand of hardliners and left a new breed of political novices from the military in charge of crucial dealings with the regimeâs international critics.
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Gordon Brown's new cabinet team begins work following a reshuffle forced by the resignation of Peter Hain.
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The two were the first departures from the administration as President Bush remakes his cabinet for a second term.