For Princetonians, the takeaway from the still-unfolding scandal of Eliot Spitzer '81 should be a re-examination of the metrics by which society, and Princeton in particular, measures success.
Before being humbled by the recent allegations, Spitzer sat perched atop the pinnacle ...(back to the article)
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The Federal government, armed with a list of over 2000 Johns with links to an Israeli citizen and agent, Mark Brener [has two current Israeli passports], implicates only Mark Spitzer as the public John in this international prostitution ring. Is there a moral lesson to be learned from this case study in law enforcement? How many corrupted votes for John McCain will come out of this pending moral and ethical investigation (ha,ha,ha) by the Fuzzy State Department of George W Bush? [Politics is the pursuit of power, not the pursuit of honesty and morals in government.] Is it time to draft up a new Constitution Conventional and get rid of the New Age King George?
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@ Not Exactly Aristotle: Hubris Nemesis.
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So being rich and politically important is not an excuse for being a bad human being? I am glad it took Spitzer's fall to teach that to the Prince.
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