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...affair with an Argentine woman following a bizarre six-day disappearance that grabbed national headlines when his staff and family claimed ignorance about his whereabouts. Aides later said Sanford was hiking along the Appalachian Trail, and seemed as surprised as everyone else when Sanford reappeared following a visit to Argentina. In disclosing the affair, Sanford also announced he would resign as head of the Republican Governors Association. His wife, who apparently had known of the liaison for months, later released a statement saying the two had agreed to a trial separation but expressing hope their marriage could be saved...
...bottom line is this: I have been unfaithful to my wife. I developed a relationship with what started as a dear, dear friend from Argentina. It began very innocently, as I suspect these things do, in just a casual e-mail back and forth." -(AP, June...
...lost that battle with the courts and legislature last week, Sanford, who can be as eccentric as he is thin-skinned, simply disappeared (although staffers insist they could reach him by cell phone in case of emergency). "I've spent the last five days of my life crying in Argentina," he said at the capitol in Columbia. "I'm committed to getting my heart right. I've been unfaithful to my wife. I've let down a lot of people. I apologize...
...Ironically, Sanford said he became involved with Maria, whom he met eight years ago while on a government trip to Argentina, while trying to help Maria work out her separation from her own husband. In one of her e-mails to Sanford, however, she insists, "You are my love." She adds, "Sometimes you don't choose things, they just happen." On a private level, Sanford, like any human being, can be excused for succumbing to that inconvenient rule of the heart. But in the public arena, the erratic behavior of the past week seems to confirm what detractors have argued...
...trillion chance of getting the pigskins' genetic sequence right. In recent years, DNA evidence has also been instrumental in identifying human remains. Authorities established a massive genetic database following the Sept. 11 attacks, and DNA science helped give closure to the relatives of victims of Argentina's "dirty war," the bloody crackdown by military rulers in the late 1970s and early '80s. Among them is Hugo Omar Argente, whose brother Jorge was a victim of a 1976 dynamite blast. "They called me on the phone and said the test results had identified him," he told a reporter. "I just cried...