IMF Director Blamed For Poor Judgment, Poor Taste In Affair With Staffer

International Monetary Fund managing director, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, was today condemned for "poor judgment and poor taste" with regard to an affair he conducted with an IMF subordinate.

"We understand that a man of great power would sleep with someone in his office," Francois D'Allene, lead investigator, told a hastily assembled Paris news conference. "What we didn't understand was his taste--the woman in question is, how you say, ugly as a sin."

Strauss-Kohn will be allowed to keep his job as managing director of the IMF, according to D'Allene, but he will be "encouraged to find a more, how you say, attractionate woman with whom to go to bed with. The head of the IMF is a very powerful man and can sleep with practically any woman from any developing country as a condition of that nation's loan agreement.

"We just hope that he will pick a prettier woman next time and spare the IMF the embarrassment of seeing its leader sneaking around with a woman who is, how you say, ugly enough for two people."

The unnamed woman, a lead translator in the Paris office of the IMF, was given 90 days of paid leave "and the phone number of a good, how you say, cosmetique surgeon," D'Allene told reporters. "It was the least we could do for la pauvre bete."