Harvard alum mag 02138 is likely clocking record-breaking traffic this week, now that their profile of Harvard "power couple" Eliot Spitzer and Silda Wall (where Wall admits to never spending time with her husband, and Spitzer pretends he's never worn makeup before) has become one long, foregone punchline. From power couple to criminally perverse politico -- oh, what a difference two years can make!

Though all eight of 02138's "power couples" are technically still intact, Eliot and Silda are far from alone in their publicly cuckolded humiliation. Being labeled a "power couple," it seems, is the latest relationship kiss of death, on par with 20-something hipsters getting matching tattoos, or meeting your mate on "The Bachelor." And if you expand the "power couple" list to include 02138's "power exes," a sordid soap opera unfolds, featuring closeted football players, heroin-addled artists, even a contestant from America's Next Top Model!

After the jump: Your guide to the Ivy League's most doomed.

Power Couple #1: Eliot Spitzer and Silda Wall

Then: Political power couple meet at Harvard law, make boatloads of money, become king and queen of New York, maintain a "crackling energy between them." He talks about how much he loves NASCAR; she straightens the flag pin on his lapel.

Now: He blows boatloads of money on prostitutes, gets caught via the very prosecutorial techniques he pioneered as Attorney General of New York.

Prophetic detail: Multiple references to side-by-side Blackberry use never bodes well.

Asked if she and her husband take time together, just the two of them, Wall laughs. "With three kids and two dogs at the ages they are-the ages they all are-and our careers and community engagement, it's hard to say that we do."

Power Couple #2: Triste Lieuteau and Ian Smith

Then: Medically-minded couple meet in Harvard Square in tennis whites. She becomes a hospital administrator; he becomes a diet demagogue and talking head for network tv.

Now: You'd think being on Celebrity Fit Club would be humiliating enough, but post-02138, Ian's life gets even worse when he is accused, in open court, of engaging in an "alternative lifestyle" with football star Michael Strahan during the latter man's divorce proceedings.  Luckily, the rumors are pretty quickly discredited; ultimately Smith and Strahan are acknowledged merely to "suck at golf" and to enjoy the company of "ugly girls," like America's Next Top Model contestant Eva Pigford.

Prophetic detail: Emphasis on Lieuteau and Smith's "unconventional" relationship:

Clearly, she wasn't the sort of girl who'd be cowed by convention. In fact, Smith says, being independent is one of the things they share. "We don't feel that our lives need to be circumscribed by other people's expectations," he says.

Power Exes: David Ignatius & Lynn Darling

Months after 02138's "Power Couples" issue, Darling published her sexual tell-all, Necessary Sins. The Washington Post columnist's memoir about "tumbl[ing] into bed with married men and single men, with serious men and gawky boys and friends that should have stayed that way" gives way to Darling's scandalous romance with the then-married Post correspondent Lee Lescaze, who left his wife for Darling. Ignatius, Darling, and Lescaze all overlapped as writers at the Post.

Power Exes: Seth Mnookin & Samantha Power

Hey! Isn't that the "genocide scholar" who called Hillary Clinton and "a monster"? And the guy who wrote all that stuff about being addicted to heroin? We actually wish this couple stayed together because we imagine they'd be a riot at cocktail parties.

Power Exes: Larry Summers & Laura Ingraham

Do we even need to comment on how recent years have gone for ex-President Summers? The man is PR kryptonite. Despite his none-too-popular comments on the female mind, however, Summers' wife (Harvard professor Elisa New) seems to like him OK. So, we assume, does Coulter-lite pundit Laura Ingraham, who isn't the most PC person, either.