It was only ten months ago that IMF leader Dominique Strauss Kahn was considered the leading contender to snag the French presidency from Nicolas Sarkozy. Then came the incident in New York City, and yesterday DSK was arrested in Paris for engaging prostitutes at the Hotel Carlton.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/28/world/europe/dominique-strauss-kahn-released-on-bail.html?hp
In the meantime, Frenchwoman Christine Lagarde, 56, has stepped into DSK's former role as the head of the International Monetary Fund; tusseled diplomatically with Angela Merkel to increase Germany's participation in the on-going grind known as the European bailout; encouraged the Chinese to buy more stuff; and recently suggested to nit-twit Niall Ferguson--in response to Ferguson's assertion that men's risk-taking makes the world go round--that had Lehman Brothers been Lehman Sisters, the firm might still be in business.
So who's the silver fox now?
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