Considered the Socialist party’s leading candidate for president of France, Mr. Strauss-Kahn identified three threats to his aspirations in an interview with the newspaper Libération, held on April 28 but published only this week. “Money, women and my Jewishness,” he said. “Yes, I like women,” he went on. “So what?”
Mr. Strauss-Kahn added, “For years they’ve been talking about photos of giant orgies, but I’ve never seen anything come out.”
Today, Mr. Strauss-Kahn sits in a jail cell on Rikers Island in New York, his reputation — and any political ambitions — perhaps irreparably tarnished by his arrest on charges of attempted rape of a hotel maid in Manhattan last weekend.
It is a humbling comedown for Mr. Strauss-Kahn, whose rise on the world stage has been marked by contradictions. » | Landon Thomas Jnr. and Steven Erlanger | Tuesday, May 17, 2011
THE NEW YORK TIMES: Powerful and Primitive » | Op-Ed | Maureen Dowd | Tuesday, May 17, 2011
