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...want to know the true cost of what Tiger Woods has lost because of his infidelities, note what was missing when he finally made a public statement Friday. His wedding ring and his wife ... I do hope this situation is a teaching moment for those athletes leading double lives the way Tiger did, and for those who believe Tiger's infidelities are really no big deal. Elin's absence and Tiger's missing ring say differently...
...prospects for a full-fledged comeback may be slim, considering the transgressions that led him to resign as governor in 2008. After becoming chief executive of New York and swearing to enforce its laws, Spitzer was found to be a perpetrator, a patron of an illegal prostitution ring who was wiring money to shell corporations to pay for his habit. It was hypocrisy on a scale that was hard to fathom, as if Eliot Ness had been busted for peddling gin from his apartment. (See the top 10 political sex scandals...
...whether he returns and on what terms. But two books chronicling his meltdown are about to come out. One, Rough Justice: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer, by Fortune editor-at-large Peter Elkind, purports to divulge new details about Spitzer's dealings with the Emperors Club prostitution ring, including revelations that he was a client for longer than was previously thought, according to someone familiar with the book's contents. The second, Journal of the Plague Year, by Lloyd Constantine, a former senior adviser and close confidant of Spitzer's, revolves around a three-day period after Spitzer...
...best solution, says Samina Ahmed, Pakistan director for the International Crisis Group, a global policy-research center, is to ring in political and social reforms that will rid this territory of its antique system from British colonial rule and draw it into mainstream Pakistani life. For now, bringing back the music in the bazaars may not be enough, but it's a start...
...continues to exert itself. In “The Ascent,” a young boy wandering through the woods near his mountain home stumbles upon the scattered remains of a crashed airplane buried in the ground. Inside, he discovers the bodies of two people and removes a wedding ring and a Rolex watch from the corpses. These unearthed items are used by the boy’s parents to buy drugs, illustrating the circuitous ways in which the land exerts itself in the community. More directly, in “Burning Bright,” the short story which...