"No Attorney General, and especially not this one, would hasten to indict a Prime Minister when they know it might lead to his ouster," Drucker told me.
The top and most recent tweet is one of the main reasons why the ouster of Hosni Mubarak is so personal for me.
Some would say (and me among them) that Mubarak's ouster was as much a soft coup by the Military Council desperate to avoid his son Gamal's accession and to get rid of his crony businessmen cabal as it was a popular revolution of ordinary Egyptians on the street.
The biggest issue for me was the handling of the ouster (and that's a kind word) of Andrew Keller after 17 years.
Indonesia, since the 1998 ouster of the ruler Suharto and his gang, reminds me of the Philippines after Ferdinand Marcos: Once stability returned and the corrupt oligarchs were no longer plundering the country, many years of prosperity and stock market growth followed.
My departure is something people have speculated about since Michael Arrington's ouster two months ago, but it wasn't an easy decision for me.
In a reverse of his recent ouster, he said, the Parliament, backed by the military, "would be issuing a communiqué to return me to the presidency".
"They always wanted to get rid of me, and they finally succeeded," Francis Menotti said in his first extensive interview since his ouster in November as director of the Festival of Two Worlds here.
"The idea of 'Masters of the Universe' on Wall Street just went kaput," Mr. Wolfe told me the other day, as Wall Street was digesting the news of Mr. Thain's ouster.
In an angry, self-justifying essay whose publication in The Atlantic Monthly this past May struck me as an act of cruelty by that magazine's editors, Raines suggested that his ouster represented a victory for the forces of mediocrity.
