complicated conversations
After two days of relentless focus and attention on the
now-resigned New York Governor
Eliot Spitzer, the news agencies have set their sights on the problem of prostitution, and, of course, on his now-suffering wife, Silda. Her "charmed life slips away,"
reads an
AP headline. "Brainy, beautiful, betrayed," reports
CBS News. "Many wonder, 'why does she stay with him?'" writes a reporter for the
L.A. Times. (The
NY Post's Cindy Adams
is all "so what?"). By all accounts,
Silda Wall Spitzer was one of those smart, over-achieving women who awe and inspire. She had a strong maternal figure (her mom insisted she list her profession as "home administrator" rather than "housewife", on her college applications), a successful and lucrative law career (she out-earned her husband as a mergers and acquisitions specialist at a top New York firm) and, in addition to raising three daughters, she founded a philanthropic community service organization. And then the news broke about her husband.
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