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...Socialists as taking advantage of personal ambition to divide and conquer the left. (Kouchner was expelled from the party.) Now, detractors charge, Sarkozy is seeking to sway the outcome of the Socialist Party's internal power struggle by off-shoring one of its main contenders, former Finance Minister Dominique Strauss-Kahn. Sarkozy has nominated Strauss-Kahn to head the International Monetary Fund, making him the fast-track favorite to fill a position traditionally chosen by the Europeans...
...Less than 24 hours after Sarkozy made an unprecedented presidential appearance at a meeting of European Union economy and finance ministers in Brussels on Monday, that forum declared its support for Strauss-Kahn to replace current IMF director general, Spaniard Rodrigo Rato, who steps down in October. That would appear to make Strauss-Kahn a lock for the job, although not if developing nations - emboldened by recent grumblings from Britain - propose a strong alternative candidate. In going to bat for the former Socialist Finance Minister who oversaw France's last big economic and employment boom in the late 1990s, however...
...Staff writer Nathan C. Strauss can be reached at strauss@fas.harvard.edu...
...Staff writer Nathan C. Strauss can be reached at strauss@fas.harvard.edu. CORRECTION: The article gave the wrong class year for Trevor J. Bakker. He is in the Class...
...Staff writer Nathan C. Strauss can be reached at strauss@fas.harvard.edu...