Return of the Pink Panther?
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It seems the French are speculating that the rape charge lodged against the front-runner for the Socialist nomination for president of France — Dominique Strauss-Kahn — is part of a plot of the kind lampooned in the Pink Panther movies. The more we inquire about the story the more we’re inclined to advise them not to let their imaginations run wild.
Mr. Strauss-Kahn is alleged to have tried to rape a hotel chamber maid in a $3,000-a-night suite at the Sofitel Hotel at Manhattan and then to have fled to JFK airport, where he was arrested in the first class section of an Air France flight moments before it was to depart for Europe. He is reported to have departed in such haste that he left a cell phone and some personal items back at the hotel.
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