Ruth Marcus: Spitzer and Greenberg, a redemption epic

BY RUTH MARCUS • “I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself And falls on the other.” — Macbeth WASHINGTON — Oh what Shakespeare could have done with the intertwined dramas and flawed characters of Eliot Spitzer and Maurice Greenberg. The fallen politician and the fallen tycoon have found themselves — have propelled themselves — into the headlines once again. Spitzer, mirroring the post-sex scandal redemption narratives of Mark Sanford and Anthony Weiner, has announced an eleventh-hour bid for New York City comptroller. A fall, to be sure, from the...