Decoding DSKWhat his fall says about transatlantic differences in attitudes to sex, power and the law “I DID warn him!” These were the words supposedly uttered by France's president, Nicolas Sarkozy, when he heard that Dominique Strauss-Kahn had been arrested in New York on charges of attempting to rape a hotel maid. When “DSK” moved to Washington, DC, in 2007 to take up his duties as the boss of
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