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...Boston Celtics home game against the New York Knicks in the early ’80s, the crowd of raucous Boston fans had no qualms flaunting their hometown pride. But neither did a young Eliot Spitzer, a native New Yorker and student at Harvard Law School who sat among the season ticket holders shamelessly cheering the Knicks and brazenly booing the crowd’s clear favorite...
...sudden, this one woman turns around, points to Eliot, and says, ‘I’m going to tell [Law Professor] Alan Dershowtiz that you were cheering for the Knicks,’” said Cliff Sloan ’79, a close friend and classmate of Spitzer who attended the game with him. Dershowitz had given Spitzer and Sloan, his research assistants, the tickets...
...There is this famous series The New York Times ran, and it printed pictures of Eliot, Jim [Cramer], and I clowning around in a photo booth—Eliot actually gave it to them willingly. And that is something very consistent with what I remember from law school: a lot of joking around...
...former governor’s penchant for jokes may have been his method of choice for coping with the high-stress environment of law school...
...Law school is just a tense situation,” said Florrie Darwin, a former classmate and current lecturer at the Law School. “Instead of being unhappy as many people were, Eliot’s mode was just to do what he had to do and deal with the tension by making light of things, using humor as a way of helping everybody around him during...