Petraeus’s Narcissism
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Nov. 12 (Bloomberg) -- It was her six-minute mile that didit. Or her youth. That’s the assumption about the choice byDavid Petraeus, America’s most-revered military statesman, topursue an extramarital affair with Paula Broadwell, who co-wrotea biography of him.
After the announcement last week from Petraeus that hewould resign his post as director of central intelligencebecause of the relationship, television and the Internet havebeen alive with descriptions of the physical allure ofBroadwell, who is 20 years younger than Petraeus.