Strauss-Kahn Case Involves Questions of Lust and Greed - NYTimes.com

Jim Dwyer is a great reporter, a fine writer with an acute moral sense. He concludes this typically compelling piece with this gem:

Greed may not be as celebrated a sin as lust, but its addition to the narrative of this affair has been a favorable turn of events for Mr. Strauss-Kahn, to say the least. A French Socialist might be forgiven his sexual appetite, but a hotel housekeeper would find no mercy for seeming too interested in money.

Strauss-Kahn Case Involves Questions of Lust and Greed - NYTimes.com: "Lust has always been among the most popular of the seven deadly sins, and for more than a month, it appeared to be a satisfactory foundation for the Dominique Strauss-Kahn narrative that began with his arrest May 14, when he was pulled from a first-class seat on Air France and charged with sexually assaulting a housekeeper who had come to clean his hotel suite.

It quickly emerged that two other hotel workers told the authorities that the night before, Mr. Strauss-Kahn had invited them, separately, to visit his suite. They separately declined"