Let It Be a Lesson

It’s doesn’t get more astonishing than this in terms of newspaper stories. The case against Dominique Strauss-Kahn is on the verge of collapse, in the wake of the discovery that the woman who accused him has been caught in a number of lies. The New York Times came in with the story the day after an ambitious French minister, Christine Lagarde, was installed as the new director of the International Monetary Fund, where she will move into the office Mr. Strauss-Kahn was forced to vacate on...