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Liberal in Good Standing Larry Summers was defenestrated as Harvard President, for crissakes, of uttering a politically incorrect remark.
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His outgoing defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, wrote a memorandum just before he was defenestrated, admitting that the current policy in Iraq was not working.
ECONOMIST: The right bellows its disapproval of the ISG report
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Elsewhere, the Education Committee (at 9.30am) holds a promising-looking one-off evidence session with three recently defenestrated education ministers: Tim Loughton, Nick Gibb, and Sarah Teather.
BBC: Week ahead in committees
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Across the Atlantic, Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair, seen as modernising go-getters in their early years in office, had eventually to be defenestrated by their own colleagues to save their party's reputation.
BBC: Manmohan Singh at 80
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Britons should look at Cyprus, Greece, Spain, Portugal and Italy today and laud her for her foresight, yet it was over the question of European integration that she was ultimately defenestrated by a small but determined cabal within the Conservative Party.
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