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...possible to dish with dignity, Jenny Sanford does it. Early in their romance, Mark invited her to fly down and visit him in South Carolina. Instead of picking her up at the airport that evening, he left her a car (a stick shift) and directions to his family's remote farm 50 miles away. When she got there, he'd already left for a party. She rationalized that he wanted an independent, can-do woman - which, as a vice president at investment bank Lazard...
...give him space to figure out how wrong he was. He did not fill the space well, pestering her for permission to see the other woman. He even asked if it would be possible to formally separate for one week, so it would be "legally permissible" for him to visit his lover. And when he was caught by the media returning from Argentina after visiting this other babe, he turned to Jenny for political advice. "Do not talk about your heart," she said. We all know how that now legendary press conference went...
After an almost-missed, last-one-to-board-the-plane flight from Nicaragua to Miami to Honduras, my roommate and I were off to visit the orphanage I taught at last summer in the city of La Ceiba. Seeing the same 22 faces that I lived with this past June reminded me that, in spite of all that has happened since the summer, nothing had changed in my relationship with these kids. The important things—the songs we danced to (“Te Amo” by Makano), the English expressions I taught them...
Steele’s visit particularly resonated for many Republican members of the audience because of Republican Senator-elect Scott P. Brown’s recent victory in Massachusetts...
...accommodate both darkness and light. On the dark side, it denotes cynicism, indifference to higher principles, opportunism. On the positive side, though, it implies a lack of dogmatism or ideological blinders, an ability to respond to the world as it actually is. (See photos of Obama's visit to Asia...