Human Race

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RETIRING: Dr. James Dobson will retire from the Focus on the Family daily radio show in February, the ministry announced Oct. 30. Dobson, 73, stepped down as president of Focus in 2003, then resigned from its board of directors last February. In a public statement, Focus president and CEO Jim Daly said Dobson "has done a superlative job in modeling the graceful transition of leadership from one generation to the next." In a Nov. 2 letter to "praying friends," Dobson said the board of directors privately voted to ask for his resignation and that he and wife Shirley Dobson expressed agreement with the decision: "We can only guess the reason for their decision, but it apparently has to do with the desire for closure on my tenure and the beginning of another. . . . Not one word of criticism or conflict was spoken."

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