For Office Civility, Cherchez La Femme

image by Istvan Banyai
(http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2011/05/29/opinion/29dowdimg.html)

Because the alleged sex-story of D S-K came out so brutally and without notice, many people jumped to a huge denial, they saw in the man a victim, forgetting who the victim really was. For Jean-Francois Kahn, D S-K was not trying to rape the woman, he was just engaging in troussage de domestique. It's not like anybody died, thinks Jack Lang.

Now the best thing to happen would be the arrival of Christine Lagarde at the helm of IMF. For office civility, cherchez la femme, says Maureen Dowd in her NY Times column:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/29/opinion/29dowd.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha212

(Zoon Politikon)