Word: spitzers
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None of this means Spitzer was a blameless victim of chemistry. Sometimes hubris is just hubris. But humans habituate to thrills, which means needing more and more to get the same buzz. "You want to re-create the high, so you up the ante," says neuropharmacologist Candace Pert. And as Spitzer learned, when you risk everything, you can lose...
...political power ladder as Attorney General of New York, prosecuting white-collar crime, securities fraud, and even prostitution. He ascended to the Governorship in 2006, promising voters a change in “the ethics of Albany.” Ironically, just two years into office, Governor Eliot Spitzer was caught spending $4,300 for a few hours with a prostitute. It appears that Spitzer, more so than Albany, needs to change his brand of ethics. Given that his was a political career shaped by a fight against corporate corruption, Spitzer’s hypocrisy is as stunning...
...visage described discountenance." Eliot Spitzer wrote those words about a character in a short story for his high school literary magazine. The sentence was florid in an adolescent way - Spitzer was always something of an intellectual show-off. Jason Brown, a friend from those days, later told Spitzer biographer Brooke Masters that Spitzer might simply have written, "He was unhappy...
...Spitzer's rather poetic sentence seemed apt on March 12, as he resigned as governor of New York in a brief press conference, the culmination of a 48-hour melodrama sparked by revelations that he had been a client of a prostitution ring. Thus ended a public career that had once seemed promising enough that Spitzer was discussed as a potential 2012 Democratic presidential nominee. Spitzer apologized for his "private failings," but he said nothing to explain why he would have thrown it all away, why he risked so much. He had built a reputation as an ethical crusader...
...does a man like this expect not to be caught? George Winner Jr., a New York state senator, told the New York Times that fellow legislators, upon first hearing that Spitzer had hired a hooker, believed it was a practical joke. Says Eric Lane, a law professor at Hofstra University: "This isn't Bill Clinton, where in one sense you would have expected it. This is a shock...