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...they cope with that? How can they suddenly go from Tora Bora to Peyton Place?" Even the legendary Audie Murphy, the most decorated soldier in World War II, suffered posttraumatic stress disorder after his return from the European theater. During one meltdown, a deranged Murphy held his wife hostage at gunpoint...
...wife Silda's insistence, he has undergone marriage counseling and therapy. But so far, Spitzer's attempted rehabilitation has largely been a media phenomenon. He's a favorite guest on cable news shows, where he opines about Wall Street and regulatory reform. As he struggles to redefine his legacy, he is helped by the plunging standards for public figures; we seem to live in the midst of an endless race to the bottom, where it is nearly impossible to become permanently discredited. The ineptitude of his successor in the governor's office, David Paterson, who is embroiled in scandals...
...close confidant of Spitzer's, revolves around a three-day period after Spitzer was linked to the prostitution ring but before he resigned, during which Constantine camped out at Spitzer's Manhattan apartment. Spitzer was distraught and leaned heavily on his friend, confiding matters about his relationship with his wife. Now neither Spitzer nor Silda is speaking to Constantine. Has the thought occurred to Spitzer that some sort of organized campaign may have been behind the investigation that ultimately ended his career? "There are very powerful people who would probably do a lot to bring me down," he says. "Does...
...Perhaps Spitzer's re-emergence is a sign that he has smoothed things over with his family. His wife, after all, appears to have forgiven him. "I don't know if you can ever mend something like this, in the sense of repair the canvas so that you never see the tear in the fabric," he said. "I'm incredibly lucky to be with a woman who is willing to deal with that tear in the fabric and keep moving forward." Asked why he didn't simply have an affair, he said, "I know this is parsing it very thin...
...Daily Mail may take the prize for the most outrageous coverage so far. Aside from the two quotes in the previous paragraph, the paper ran a caption beneath a front-page photo of Queen Elizabeth II with Zuma and his newest wife, Thobeka Madiba Zuma, reading: "Just Brought One Wife, Mr. Zuma?" The Mail also commented on what it called Zuma's "colorful life," which consists of "five wives, a love child with the daughter of one of his political allies, a criminal trial for alleged rape of an HIV-positive woman and corruption charges." Not stopping there, the paper...