Mr. Giuliani, already hobbled then by a messy separation from his wife, withdrew after finding that he had prostate cancer.
In an announcement on July 30, John I. Nelson Jr., the Atlantic commission chairman, said he had notified the commerce and interior secretaries that the commission had withdrawn its noncompliance finding.
Germany's education minister resigned today after a university decided to withdraw her doctorate, finding that she plagiarised parts of her thesis - an embarrassment for Chancellor Angela Merkel's government as it prepares for elections later this year.
As it happened, most of his forward companies remained intact and were subsequently able to withdraw themselves after finding they had been abandoned.
Yet, conservative members of Congress forced DHS to withdraw its report finding that "lone wolves and small terrorist cells embracing violent rightwing extremist ideology are the most dangerous domestic terrorism threat in the United States".
After the agents returned, they concluded that the latent print originally linked to Mr. Mayfield was "of no value for identification purposes," and it withdrew its finding of a match.
One big investor, TowerView, the fund run by Daniel Tisch, which owns a 6.2 percent stake in American Greetings, opposed the deal and said in May that it wanted the special committee's financial adviser, the Peter J. Solomon Company, to withdraw its finding that the deal was fair.
Prosecutors in the office of Preet Bharara, the United States attorney in Manhattan, strongly defended the officers' testimony as truthful and accurate; they asked the judge to withdraw his findings, citing the potential damage to the officers' careers.
Last year the authors of that Science article officially withdrew the findings, after neither they nor anyone else could replicate their work.
She could be vivid company but often preferred to withdraw from society, perhaps finding it too much of a performance.
