Word: eliot
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Charlie’s: 1. Inexpensive barbershop on Mass. Ave., convenient to the Quad. 2. Eliot St. burger joint famous for awesomely greasy burgers and nonsensical pricing ($5 for a double, $8 for a triple...
...Eliot House: 1. Where unabomber Theodore J. Kaczynski ’62 spent his formative years. 2. Home of the Fête, the best formal at Harvard. 3. Its clock tower has probably had a better movie career than Matt Damon...
Brooke A. Masters ’89 scores a breakthrough with her first book, “Spoiling for a Fight: The Rise of Eliot Spitzer,” delivering a detailed analysis of the career of the New York attorney general and Harvard Law graduate who is one of the Democratic Party’s rising stars...
...white collar crime reporter for The Washington Post, Masters wisely begins her book by giving readers just enough background on Spitzer’s life. We learn of his competitive, brilliant family—“In one often-repeated tale, [Spitzer’s father] Bernard reduced Eliot, then about seven or eight, to tears during a game of Monopoly”—of his academic success, and of his time in the Manhattan District Attorney’s office...
...these stories don’t last long. Just under 50 pages into the 300-page book, the narrative turns to Eliot the Lionhearted, the people’s lawyer crusading against greedy Wall Street executives...