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Read TIME's interview with Sarah Palin on her decision to resign...
...This outsider quality is easy to ignore when you see her in full dazzle on a convention stage, but it comes into focus should you find her in her habitat. After announcing plans on July 3 to resign as governor after just 2½ years, Palin retired to her in-laws' place in Dillingham, a tiny fishing village in southwestern Alaska, reachable only by boat or plane. TIME caught up to her there. It was salmon season, and thick fillets, red from the smokehouse, were drying on a line strung from a nearby tree. Husband Todd Palin was chopping wood...
When Alaska Governor Sarah Palin announced her intention to resign on July 3, many assumed there must be a looming scandal. Why else make the surprise announcement late in the afternoon before the July 4 holiday - the equivalent of a news black hole - in tones that varied from angry to anxious? Palin even hauled her husband back from a commercial fishing trip to be by her side...
...does little to discourage comparisons to Eva Perón, the glamorous and powerful Argentine First Lady of the 1940s and '50s known as Evita - has had her clout both at home and abroad diminished to the point that Argentine pundits are even discussing whether she might soon resign. While that's unlikely, the rest of her term promises to be a slog, and her husband's widely discussed plans to run for President again in 2011 suddenly seem a long shot. (Read "Little...
...Sanford said he'll resign the RGA's chairmanship but refused to say whether he'll step down as governor. His friend and former chief of staff, state senator Tom Davis, says Sanford "shouldn't resign, even though I say that with reservations given what's happened the past few days. He deserves the chance to rebuild the trust of the state, and I think today's confession was a good start," Davis told TIME. "I think he's done an extraordinarily good job as governor of alerting people to issues that have been swept under...