There are no soft landings when we fall from grace.

An experiential learner, I have grasped this lesson a time or two, after hurtling swiftly, sometimes head first, from a peak to a bone-rattling thud at the bottom.

South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford joined a list of politicians, a veritable pantheon of political players from both major parties, last week when the tangled web of his love life spun out of control. He not only had to confess to marital infidelity spanning two hemispheres, sometimes on the taxpayer dime, he also had to disclose the secret separation from his...

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