Race row professor resigns from post
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Science & environment: DNA pioneer James Watson has retired from his post as chancellor of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
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Attorney General Alberto Gonzales resigned from office on Monday, ending a controversial tenure as chief law enforcement officer that blemished the administration of President George W. Bush.
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A North Carolina district attorney who pursued sex charges against three Duke University lacrosse players said on Friday he would resign from office as he faced ethics charges over his handling of the case.
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Alberto R. Gonzales, whose tenure has been marred by accusations of perjury before Congress, has resigned. A senior administration official said he would announce the decision later this morning in Washington.
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The paperÂs first African-American managing editor resigned after a reporter was exposed as a fabricator.
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The Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth, a native of Birmingham, says he is resigning from his position as president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
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Former Duke lacrosse coach Mike Pressler said yesterday that several factors -- including pressure from the Duke faculty, outcry from several community special interest groups and public attacks from Durham County (N.C.) District Attorney Mike Nifong -- led to the school's decision to part ways with...
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NAACP President Kweisi Mfume announced Tuesday that he is stepping down after a nearly nine-year tenure in which he helped rescue the nation's oldest and largest civil rights group from debt and scandal.
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Rod Paige, who rose from racial segregation to become the nation's first black education secretary, intends to leave his Cabinet position, an administration official told The Associated Press Friday.
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President George W. Bush's campaign adviser on courting Catholic voters quit this week after revelations of sexual misconduct with a female student that forced him to resign as a tenured professor at a leading Catholic university where he taught years ago.
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As the University of Colorado tries to determine whether it can fire a professor who likened Sept. 11 victims to Nazis, another professor has claimed she was removed from her post because of her political views.
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A veteran Middle East scholar affiliated with the Carter Center in Atlanta resigned his position there Monday in an escalating controversy over former president Jimmy Carter's bestselling book on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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A fifth senior Justice Department official announced his resignation yesterday in the wake of the controversy over the firings of nine U.S. attorneys last year.
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A University of South Florida women's basketball player who wanted to wear Islamic clothing on the court quit the team on Wednesday.
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The president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Bruce Gordon, is stepping down after 19 months at the nation's largest civil rights organization, the NAACP said on Sunday.
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President Bush's top economic adviser is leaving his post to return to academia, the White House announced Wednesday.
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The Rev. Christopher Coyne, spokesman for Boston's archbishops through much of the clergy sex abuse scandal, is resigning from the post, a newspaper reported.