On October 16th Citi made good this relative dullness: Vikram Pandit, its chief executive (pictured), resigned abruptly along with John Havens, the bank's chief operating officer.Rumours about the cause of the resignation abound.
ON SEPTEMBER 17th Robert Sirleaf, the controversial son of Liberia's president, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf (pictured), resigned from his positions as chairman of the board of the National Oil Company of Liberia (NOCAL) and a senior adviser to his mother.
She is succeeding MICHELE CAHILL, pictured, who resigned last month to become CHANCELLOR JOEL I. KLEIN'S senior counselor for education policy.
After listening to the challenges faced by George Papandreou (pictured), who resigned as president of Greece last year, and Peer Steinbruck, a former German finance minister, it became clear to me that the West is struggling to hold its reign.
MOZILLA, the outfit behind the Firefox web browser and other software, has just lost its chief executive, Brendan Eich (pictured), who resigned on April 3rd after spending little more than a week in the job.
When Ross Levinsohn (pictured left) resigned as the President of Fox Interactive Media late last year it was rumored that he intended to raise a large fund to acquire Internet startups.
By coincidence, Tatler's picture editor had resigned the week I started.
The lyrics picture the newly resigned president with a "tiny tear in his shifty little eye," bidding goodbye to the members of his staff, who have lined up to say farewell.
But that failed, and instead both men have left the board: Mr Disney (pictured above, with chums) resigned at the weekend, rather than wait to be forced off because of his age, and Mr Gold left voluntarily on Monday, December 1st.Both men used the occasion to write long, bitter letters calling for Mr Eisner's head.
Masataka Shimizu, pictured, president of Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco), resigned in May at the height of Japan's nuclear crisis.
