Really Bad Timing for Washingtonian

What’s Washingtonian to do? They write a huge, glowing piece on Dominique Strauss-Kahn by Apolline de Malherbe for their June issue. Then, after it goes to press and is mailed out, the goddamn guy goes and gets busted for rape.

From the print edition: “Few of his Georgetown neighbors recognize Dominique Strauss-Khan, but he might just be the next president of France.”

Yeah, not so much anymore.

So Washingtonian had to wipe the egg off their face. Hence this editor’s note: “The June issue of The Washingtonian—which has already been printed and is currently being mailed to subscribers and delivered to newsstands—includes a profile of IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who has lived in relative obscurity in Washington for the last three and a half years.

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