Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the IMF's managing director, should state unequivocally whether he intends to seek the French presidency in 2012. If he does, the need to avoid conflicts of interest dictates that he should resign from his current job immediately.
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CHICAGO – When Dominique Strauss-Kahn, a former French finance minister, was appointed Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund in 2007, many developing countries objected – not to him, but to the tradition that gave the IMF’s top job to a European, with the Americans installing one of their own at the World Bank.