BECAUSE GOLD-DIGGERS ENABLE THEM? A Time cover story investigates What Makes Powerful Men Act Like Pigs.

When her husband Dominique Strauss-Kahn was preparing to run for President of France five years ago, Anne Sinclair told a Paris newspaper that she was "rather proud" of his reputation as a ladies' man, a chaud lapin (hot rabbit) nicknamed the Great Seducer.

"It's important," she said, "for a man in politics to be able to seduce."

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