51.   She replaces the first U.N. rights commissioner, Jose Ayala Lasso, who resigned to become foreign minister of Ecuador.

52.   She succeeds Gov. Paul Cellucci, who resigned to become U.S. ambassador to Canada.

53.   Still, Republicans could dodge that possibility by choosing someone else as speaker and letting that person resign to become temporary president.

54.   The director of the National Institutes of Health is resigning to become president of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York.

55.   Three candidates are contesting the seat made vacant by professor Ng Ching-fai, who has resigned to become the head of a local university.

56.   UAM officials announced that Newell will replace Charlie Schaef, who recently resigned to become head coach at Ouachita Baptist University.

57.   He served in that role for five years before resigning to become Australian ambassador to Ireland, a position he held for three years.

58.   He will fill the vacancy left nearly a year ago by the departure of Harvey Schiller, who resigned to become president of Turner Sports in Atlanta.

59.   Croatian coach Miroslav Blazevic also resigned to become the first coaching casualty at the tournament.

60.   It is hoping to convince the popular Takako Doi, its former leader who resigned to become speaker of the parliament, to run its campaign.