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		<title>Dominique Strauss-Kahn is Hanging Out With His Old IMF Buddies Right Now</title>

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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 17:01:36 -0400</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p><div id="attachment_164588" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://nyoobserver.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/1152829641-e1314114047253.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-164588" title="Dominique Strauss-Kahn DSK Happy" src="http://nyoobserver.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/1152829641-e1314114047253.jpg?w=300&h=219" alt="" width="300" height="219" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Via Getty. </p></div></p>
<p>What do you if you're Dominique Strauss-Kahn, and after the longest summer in your life which forced you to resign from your job at the IMF and sidelined your shot at a Presidency, your name has been cleared in a criminal trial (although <a href="http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/25/with-a-civil-trial-pending-the-strauss-kahn-case-is-hardly-closed/" target="_blank">a civil suit alleging the same rape </a>that landed you in the pen and another accusation of <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/23/world/europe/23banon.html?pagewanted=all" target="_blank">a 2003 sexual assault awaiting you in France</a> both persist)?</p>
<p>You go for an awkward visit with your former colleagues! Which is what Dominique Strauss-Kahn is likely doing <em>right at this very moment</em>.</p>
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<p><a href=" on a personal visit to the Fund later today, he would like to have the opportunity to say goodbye to staff,” according to an e- mail sent to employees and obtained by Bloomberg. “All staff who would like to do so can meet with him this afternoon.”" target="_blank">Obtained by <em>Bloomberg</em></a>, an unsigned email circulated in the International Monetary Fund offices in Washington D.C. notes:</p>
<blockquote><p>"...On a personal visit to the Fund later today, [Strauss-Kahn] would like to have the opportunity to say goodbye to staff..All staff who would like to do so can meet with him this afternoon.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Who will attend? Who will abstain? What will they talk about? What will be said? Who will be the first one to bring up "that whole rape accusation thing"? <em>And <a href="http://dealbreaker.com/2011/08/how-many-employees-can-dominique-strauss-meet-in-one-hour/" target="_blank">what do the Dealbreaker commenters have to say about this?</a></em></p>
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<li>"DSK, meat, staff"</li>
<li>"It all depends... Dick in or Dick out? DNA samples firmly in the palm of hand. etc, etc."</li>
<li>"Sounds a lot like polling the electorate. Can I come? - B. Clinton"</li>
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<p>Obviously, if you were there, <a href="mailto:fkamer@observer.com" target="_blank">we would love to hear all about it</a>. Until then, here is a clip of Dominique Strauss-Kahn trash-talking former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson in financial meltdown documentary <em>Inside Job</em>, back when people could listen to what he had to say about money without picturing him running down a Sofitel hallway naked:</p>
<p>fkamer@observer.com | @<a href="http://twitter.com/weareyourfek">weareyourfek</a></p>
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><div id="attachment_164588" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://nyoobserver.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/1152829641-e1314114047253.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-164588" title="Dominique Strauss-Kahn DSK Happy" src="http://nyoobserver.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/1152829641-e1314114047253.jpg?w=300&h=219" alt="" width="300" height="219" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Via Getty. </p></div></p>
<p>What do you if you're Dominique Strauss-Kahn, and after the longest summer in your life which forced you to resign from your job at the IMF and sidelined your shot at a Presidency, your name has been cleared in a criminal trial (although <a href="http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/25/with-a-civil-trial-pending-the-strauss-kahn-case-is-hardly-closed/" target="_blank">a civil suit alleging the same rape </a>that landed you in the pen and another accusation of <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/23/world/europe/23banon.html?pagewanted=all" target="_blank">a 2003 sexual assault awaiting you in France</a> both persist)?</p>
<p>You go for an awkward visit with your former colleagues! Which is what Dominique Strauss-Kahn is likely doing <em>right at this very moment</em>.</p>
<p><!--more--></p>
<p><a href=" on a personal visit to the Fund later today, he would like to have the opportunity to say goodbye to staff,” according to an e- mail sent to employees and obtained by Bloomberg. “All staff who would like to do so can meet with him this afternoon.”" target="_blank">Obtained by <em>Bloomberg</em></a>, an unsigned email circulated in the International Monetary Fund offices in Washington D.C. notes:</p>
<blockquote><p>"...On a personal visit to the Fund later today, [Strauss-Kahn] would like to have the opportunity to say goodbye to staff..All staff who would like to do so can meet with him this afternoon.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Who will attend? Who will abstain? What will they talk about? What will be said? Who will be the first one to bring up "that whole rape accusation thing"? <em>And <a href="http://dealbreaker.com/2011/08/how-many-employees-can-dominique-strauss-meet-in-one-hour/" target="_blank">what do the Dealbreaker commenters have to say about this?</a></em></p>
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<ul>
<li>"DSK, meat, staff"</li>
<li>"It all depends... Dick in or Dick out? DNA samples firmly in the palm of hand. etc, etc."</li>
<li>"Sounds a lot like polling the electorate. Can I come? - B. Clinton"</li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
<p>Obviously, if you were there, <a href="mailto:fkamer@observer.com" target="_blank">we would love to hear all about it</a>. Until then, here is a clip of Dominique Strauss-Kahn trash-talking former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson in financial meltdown documentary <em>Inside Job</em>, back when people could listen to what he had to say about money without picturing him running down a Sofitel hallway naked:</p>
<p>fkamer@observer.com | @<a href="http://twitter.com/weareyourfek">weareyourfek</a></p>
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