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Even-Keeled vs. Brash
I remember thinking a profile of Silda Wall Spitzer in the New York Times a year and a half ago was very interesting, and I just went back to look at it again. Reading it now is an uncanny experience. The anti-corruption crusader gets cast as a man of boorish manners and "brash" impulses—and she is his "even-keeled" foil with a real challenge on her hands. Their friend Jim Cramer's characterization of the pair has an all-too-prophetic ring: ''Silda is poised; Eliot is a maelstrom.'' You could almost think their circle worried about an accident waiting to happen, counting on a wife lauded for "her remarkable ability to rein in" her husband to be able to stop it. So here's a question being debated here at XX: Whatever Hillary does, or doesn't, say, will all this resonate in her favor? At last, just put the woman in charge. Or will it give people pause, as Emily Y. suggests, as they cringe at four years of worrying what Bill might be up to?
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