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Welcome to the Double X podcast for Thursday, August 25th.

This is the momentary lapse of judgment edition.

I am Hannah Rosen, co-editor of Double X, and I have with me here in the Washington studio, Kate Julian.

Hello, Kate.

Hello, Hannah.

And we are joined in New York by editor Jessica Gross.

Hi, Jess. Hi, guys. So today we are going to talk about three things. The first is the very newsy exoneration of Dominic Strauss Khan, which happened just this week. The second is a newly released report about the evils of cohabitation. And the third is IUDs, which are about to become

cheaper and more accessible. So we're going to talk about why so few women use them in the history

of them. So let's start with Dominic Strauss Khan. As we all know, if we've watched the news this

morning and seen his smiling face, the charges have been dropped against him by the New York City prosecutor.

He is no longer accused of having raped a chambermaid, as everyone keeps calling her, in her hotel room.

So, Jessica, can you tell us a little bit about your thoughts about the DSK case and what you think is unfolding this week?

Sure. I was thinking about it this morning, and even though it has been bungled in all sorts of ways,

especially the DA's office and Cyrus Vance have been pilloried for mishandling it,

I actually don't think it could have gone down any other way, and here's why.

I was thinking back to Amanda's post that she wrote on the XX Factor about how the New York City cops did a really good job of nabbing DSK before he went on that Air France flight.

And I think that if they hadn't gotten him then, he would have been back in France and there

would have been no chance for any trial of any kind.

So in a way, even though the DAs were criticized for moving too fast without evidence,

there would have been nothing at all if they had let him go back to France, right?

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