"N.Y. maid speaking on alleged attack; Strauss-Kahn story makes TV, magazines" July 26, 2011|By Jennifer Peltz, Associated Press
NEW YORK - She’s on a magazine cover and national television, telling her emotional and explicit story of being sexually attacked by Dominique Strauss-Kahn and pressing for him to be tried.
But while Nafissatou Diallo’s interviews marked a dramatic turn in the public narrative surrounding the case, they may have far less impact on prosecutors’ private investigation and deliberations about whether to keep pursuing her troubled case - a process that seems to be becoming more complex as it heads toward an Aug. 1 court date....
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"Maid in rape case meets with DA; First visit since prosecutor cast doubt on her" July 28, 2011|By Jennifer Peltz, Associated Press
NEW YORK - The hotel maid who accused Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault spent nearly eight hours with prosecutors yesterday in the first meeting since the district attorney’s office publicly announced it had doubts about her credibility....
The last time Nafissatou Diallo spoke to the district attorney’s office was in June and ended with her in tears as prosecutors asked about inconsistencies they had uncovered in her past, her attorney has said. Yesterday’s meeting came one day after the district attorney and Strauss-Kahn’s attorneys announced they had agreed to postpone his next court date to Aug. 23....
Diallo, 32, a widowed immigrant from Guinea with a 15-year-old daughter, broke her silence in recent days with interviews in Newsweek and on a series of ABC News programs. It is not clear whether that further widened the rift....
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I wouldn't kick her out of bed.
Also see: Maid to Order Dismissal For Dominique Strauss-Kahn
And I believe the term is menage a trois?
"Court orders inquiry of new IMF chief" August 05, 2011|Associated Press
PARIS - A French court ordered an investigation yesterday into new IMF chief Christine Lagarde’s role in a $400 million arbitration deal in favor of a controversial tycoon.
Investigators will open an inquiry this week into possible charges of “complicity to embezzlement of public funds’’ and “complicity to forgery,’’ prosecutors said.
She's in the right job then.
Lagarde was France’s finance minister when magnate Bernard Tapie won a 2008 settlement with a French state-owned bank over the mishandled sale of sportswear maker Adidas in the 1990s. Critics viewed the settlement as an overly generous chunk of taxpayer money handed to a brash businessman.
The investigation comes as Lagarde is working to improve the reputation of the Washington-based International Monetary Fund after her predecessor, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, quit to face charges that he tried to rape a New York hotel maid....
The investigation is likely to take months and may not result in a trial - but if it does, and if Lagarde should be convicted....
And if I were a bicycle I would have wheels and I could roll on outta here!
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Oh, sorry I feel asleep on you. Globe does that to me.
Also see:
More states crack down on late-term abortions
Judge blocks Kansas law defunding Planned Parenthood
Abortion doctor racks up the miles
"Panel: Free birth control for women" BY RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR and LAURAN NEERGAARD, Associated Press | July 20, 2011
WASHINGTON -- Millions of women stand to gain free access to a broad menu of birth control methods, thanks to a recommendation issued Tuesday by health experts advising the government.
An Institute of Medicine panel recommended that the government require health insurance companies to cover birth control for women as preventive care, without co-payments....
"Unintended pregnancies carry health consequences for the mother -- psychological, emotional and physical -- and also consequences for the newborn," said Linda Rosenstock, panel chairwoman and dean of public health at UCLA. "The overwhelming evidence was strongly supportive of the health benefit" of contraception.
A half century after the introduction of the birth control pill, the panel's recommendations may help to usher in another revolution. Medical experts say easier access could start a shift to more reliable forms of long-acting birth control, such as implants or IUDs, which are gaining acceptance in other economically developed countries. Emergency contraception, known as the morning-after pill, also would be covered....
Nonetheless, a fight over social mores is brewing....
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Related: Panel urges free birth control access for women (By N.C. Aizenman, Washington Post)
I had nightmares, readers.
