From what I am hearing, she has the stones to show up.

Kristen to $190K!

if she had stones, she would not be standing by his side

What could a woman relying on her husband's independent wealth have to say to a bunch of law students about career transitions? She left her legal career behind to be a professional rich-and-accomplished-dude's-wife.

12:21 -

Who knew it would turn out to be a foolish decision on her part.

12:21 - clearly she plans to tell them that while they're at Harvard, they should find rich guys to marry so they can make the career transition.

First step ... become Senator of a state
-you have little to no affiliation with, and
-filled with people who don't respect their state enough to care about that fact

We are looking pretty hard at you, New Jersey

SILDA for PREZ 2012

SEN's hypocritcally bad grammar seems to be rubbing off on Lat--the post should read "which office," not "what office."

12:36 - No, it should be "what," not "which."

The number of offices that a humiliated political spouse can run for is limitless.

"Any thoughts on what office she might run for?"
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You are both wrong. This should be rewritten as:

"Any thoughts on the office, for which she might run?"
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you never end a sentence with the word "for"

November 10, 2006
Her Next Job: First Lady of New York
By ERIC KONIGSBERG
In January 2005, when she found herself pondering how best to come to terms with the job of political spouse, Silda Wall Spitzer sought the advice of a woman who was once best known for not fitting so comfortably into that role herself, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton.

The two of them convened in Senator Clinton’s Manhattan office and spoke, according to Ms. Wall Spitzer, “about how to maintain a private sphere for our family and how to be helpful in my husband’s campaign.”

“I figured, here’s a woman who also met her husband at law school, who had been a lawyer with a firm, whose husband was a state attorney general before he ran for governor,” she said of Senator Clinton. “There really aren’t that many role models for this.”

Now Ms. Wall Spitzer, who has been married to Governor-elect Eliot Spitzer for 19 years, is poised to become New York’s first lady, and the balancing act may get even tougher.

By her own admission, she is an ambivalent political spouse, a high-powered woman in her own right who surrendered certain personal goals for the demands of public life. She was formerly a rising corporate lawyer, first at the law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, and then as in-house counsel for Chase Manhattan Bank, and she makes no bones about the satisfaction she found in the work force.

But as her husband plunged headlong into the political life, she decided to devote herself to their three daughters (now ages 12, 14 and 16) and to starting a philanthropic foundation. In a recent interview, she declared, “It’s not necessarily the way I thought I would be spending my time.”

1:09--you use of the definite article and retention of the singular "office" in your attempted rewrite alterns the meaning of the original sentence.

1:09 you are also wrong; you don't need a comma after office.

why are people on this site so meanspirited? silda's clearly accomplished in her own right; she worked for skadden and then went in-house at chase. shes not the typical stay-at-home meek political spouse. sure she made what i can only guess was an incredibly difficult decision to leave the corporate world (after having the last of her THREE children, i might note) to support her husband's political ambitions, but she didn't just sit on her ass. she moved to philanthropic work and founded a charity. so yeah youre right, guess the lady would have nothing intelligent to contribute about moving from a law firm to in-house or moving from the corporate world to a nonprofit, things that no HLS students would be interested in anyway... oh wait, thats a common career path for MANY lawyers, not just women who are looking for a "free ride" from a "rich man".

douchebags.

John Irving said it best in the opening line of "The World According to Garp": "In this dirty-minded world, she thought, you are either somebody's wife or somebody's whore — or fast on your way to becoming one or the other."

There's no RICO indictment of the firm. I just read it. It's just a re-hash of the old stuff from years ago.

1:20: Her situation is unique. She will not have to claw her way back into the profession or worry about a huge paycut or anything like that. Most students she's talking to simply won't have those options - yes, even though they're at HLS.

Leave the poor woman alone! She's just gone through the most humiliating and heartwrenching experience possible. I'm doubt that any of the girly men on this board would be able to handle it.

Maybe it's the background color or something, but that first picture looks like the program is tattooed on someone's back

Ms. Wall-Spitzer is so much more classy than Hillary, and much better looking too. This is probably due to her NC upbringing. She would be a cinch to be a success politically.

"She's just gone through the most humiliating and heartwrenching experience possible."

We have no idea about the true nature of her and Spitzy's marriage, whether she forced him to seek other outlets for his needs, or exactly what emotion, if any, this has really raised in her. Don't jump to sympathetic conclusions.

11:41, good question.

Is she celebrating the public's interest in this scandal?

Staffers are saying she has cancelled and will not be appearing at the reunion.

Staffers are now saying that her husband will be giving her speech, as he's about to become the expert at "Career Transitions."

These posters are up all over the school still, but I don't see her on the program:
http://www.law.harvard.edu/alumni/pic/program.htm

She's not coming. She already canceled with school officials.