Spitzer is brilliant but foolish

My husband heard that Spitzer got a perfect score on his SATs (though this is false, he got a perfect score on the LSAT, the law school entrance exam), and we were joking that being this smart apparently doesn't prevent you from making incredibly stupid mistakes.

From Wikipedia:

Spitzer was born in the Bronx, the son of Anne (née Goldhaber), a former teacher, and Bernard Spitzer, a real estate mogul.[6][7] His grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Austria.[6] Spitzer was raised in the affluent Riverdale section of The Bronx in New York City. His family was not particularly religious and Spitzer did not have a bar mitzvah.[8] He is a graduate of Horace Mann School. With a score of 1590 on the SAT exam,[8] Spitzer attended Princeton University and majored in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. At Princeton, he was elected chairman of the undergraduate student government, and graduated in 1981. He scored a perfect score on the LSAT,[9] and went on to Harvard Law School, where he met and married Silda Wall. They married on October 17, 1987 and together they have three daughters: Elyssa (b. December 12, 1989), Sarabeth (b. July 23, 1992), and Jenna (b. May 23, 1994).[10] Spitzer was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. One of Spitzer's classmates at Harvard Law School was Jim Cramer, host of CNBC's Mad Money, on which Spitzer has appeared or called in on three occasions.

I had gone to the site to see if his wife is Jewish (she's not) because someone had asked me. Turns out Spitzer isn't very religious either - sounds like his family worshipped accomplishment most.