Word: sojourner
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...little romance on the sly: hiking the Appalachian Trail. That was the original reason given by Sanford's staff for his unexplained six-day absence from the state's capital - an explanation whose credibility evaporated when the governor resurfaced, not from an extended nature walk but from a covert sojourn to Buenos Aires, where his mistress lives. In the meantime, the peculiar tale of Sanford's disappearance and subsequent confession has showered the beloved A.T. with the most attention it's received in years. (See pictures of health care in rural Appalachia...
...when I came in,” Mendillo says. “Wellesley gave me the top-down strategy background that I was looking for and it layered very well on the asset class specific experience I had at HMC.”THE BEGINNING OF THE STORMWhile her sojourn at Wellesley prepared her to take the helm of Harvard’s mammoth endowment, the company she returned to was dramatically different from the one she had left years earlier. In 2005, HMC’s legendary CEO Jack R. Meyer left the company with 30 other employees...
...Like Clinton, Obama's first trip to a foreign country landed him just over the border in Canada. But this week's sojourn to England, France, Germany, the Czech Republic and Turkey is the President's first real chance to reset America's relationship with the global community. And while there's a chance that Obama's foreign tour might be overshadowed by recession-related news at home - summit meetings aren't as juicy as excessive Wall Street bonuses - he'll at least be further afield than the Panama Canal, the site of the first foreign trip by a sitting...
French leaders have always been more frequent visitors to Africa than their Western peers, but President Nicolas Sarkozy looks set to eclipse them all in trips to the continent. On Thursday, Sarkozy began his fifth African sojourn in less than three years with a trip to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a violence-plagued Central African nation that of which most Western officials steer well clear. His goal? To sell his ambitious plan economic cooperation aimed at bring peace to some of the region's embattled countries - and in the process restore French influence in Africa...
...sounds too good to be true. Now, for a limited time - the year of St. Paul, to be specific, which ends in June - say a prayer, pop by a designated church and qualify for an indulgence that deducts time from your scorching sojourn in the cleansing fires of purgatory...