Word: spitzers
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After New York Governor Eliot Spitzer was busted as Client No. 9 of the Emperors Club prostitution ring, the first and simplest question pundits asked was, Why do powerful men do this? (New York magazine succinctly answered with a picture of Spitzer, the label brain and an arrow pointing to his crotch.) Next came, Why do their wives stand by them?, for which many thinkers offered many theories...
...Order airs ELIOT SPITZER--themed episode...
...average Gather user really does represent me, I took a peek at the search terms driving traffic to the site. According to Hitwise, over the last four weeks, visitors to the site were searching for "pimento cheese spread," "bonsai trees" and Elliot Spitzer's wife "Silva Spitzer." While I do confess to a brief bonsai connection, the rest of the search term list leaves me cold. This is someone's niche, but not mine...
...technology is here to stay when it ends a politician’s career. The reel-to-reel tapes that sank Nixon may be relics today, but e-mail and instant messaging scandals have been shaking up the White House and Congress for years, and there could be no Spitzer downfall without mobile phone recordings or online banking records. Just last month, another new medium won legitimacy as evidence of Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick’s alleged affair with his Chief of Staff was exposed via text messages...
There is of course nothing wrong with making such sacrifices for the people you love. Eliot Spitzer, however, did not apparently appreciate his wife’s selflessness enough to avoid betraying her trust and breaking his marital commitment. Yet they remain together, even after all that has happened—and we may never know precisely why. Craig’s days in Congress are running out in disgrace, yet his wife stands by him: might it be image, sympathy or love behind her loyalty...