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Tuesday, March 11, 2008 12:00 AM

The tragic fall of Eliot Spitzer

He once busted up "sex rings" himself, but the New York governor's hiring of a pricey prostitute has shattered his political career.
By Walter Shapiro

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  • Tuesday, March 11, 2008 05:43 AM

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    Spitzer is not a tragic figure and the scandal is not tragic. It is comic. Here is a spoiled child of the Jewish bourgeoisie given to Pharisaical pronouncements brought low by his own uncontrolled drives and his sense of superiority and entitlement. No Greek playwright would see an Oedipus here -- only a character out of Juvenal, and a junvenile one at that.

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