McCaw did rather abruptly resign from the Clearwire Board at year end so one can conjecture that maybe he is facing a similar crisis now and that is why he left the Board when he did in the way that he did.

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May also saw the commentator Glenn Mitchell resign from the ABC, thus depriving cricket fans of one of the great voices of the southern summer.

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Greater freedom is also what inspired Vanessa Fox to resign from her position at Google, where she helped build Webmaster Central, one of the company's most successful projects.

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And Idaho's Larry Craig is still deciding whether to resign over a bizarre incident in an airport lavatory (one wag says that he is seeking advice from his wife and the man in stall number three).

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