[originally posted 7 VI 2011]
1)
For her hand did the prince risk all:
He’d have her, though an empire fall.
Portrait of the Aethiope temptress here.
The lass for whom he lost the world, and was content to lose it |
[Update II 2012] Gone! Censored!! Down the Memory-hole !!!
[Update 1 VII 2011:
Pen-portrait here.
-- II 2012. Now preceded by a wretched ad.
Lest the article itself be deep-sixed, here is the beginning:
De sidération en sidération. Depuis ce dimanche matin 15 mai où les Français ont découvert, médusés, l'inculpation pour tentative de viol de celui qui allait peut-être devenir leur président, l'affaire Strauss-Kahn n'a été qu'une succession de coups de théâtre.
Incidentally… contrast the stunner in the first picture, with the more typical such employees in the second. Turns out there may a good reason she is so beautifully turned-out: It goes with her …. other job.
"When you're a chambermaid at Local 6, when you first get to the US, you start at the motels at JFK [Airport]. You don't start at the Sofitel," the source said. "There's a whole squad of people who saw her as an earner."
The woman also had "a lot of her expenses -- hair braiding, salon expenses -- paid for by men not related to her," the source said.
[Update 10 VII 2011: An innocent alternate explanation of how Diallo straightaway bagged such a plum job here:]
http://www.lejdd.fr/International/Actualite/DSK-Nafissatou-Diallo-recrutee-par-une-ONG-au-dessus-de-tout-soupcon-355237/?from=cover
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[Update 2 VII 2011]:
Linguists crack the case !
(2)
The dovecotes are aflutter,
all atwitter is the gutter,
over today’s delicious dirt:
A Congressman, caught without his shirt!
He blew it, first by lying and then crying.
Gentlemen: The proper response to the media hordes, in a case like this, is:
“This lies outside the sphere of your legitimate concern.”
“This lies outside the sphere of your legitimate concern.”
A no-punches-pulled retort by Richard Cohen here.
(3) In France, l’affaire is snowballing. Ironic commentary here.
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