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英语时文阅读（一） IMF head on suicide watch in New York City jailNEW YORK – The maid came from one of the worlds poorest countries to the U.S., working to support the teen daughter she raised alone. To her, the penthouse suite at the Sofitel Hotel was just another empty room to clean.She says she had no idea there was a man inside or that he was a famous French politician. She says he was naked, chased her down and tried to rape her.The man, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, remained jailed under a suicide watch Wednesday as a lawyer for the woman sought to rebut whispered allegations that her charges were a conspiracy and a setup.Calls intensified for the 62-year-old Strauss-Kahn to step down as head of the powerful International Monetary Fund, with U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner saying Strauss-Kahn is obviously not in a position to run the agency.Strauss-Kahn was one of Frances most high-profile politicians and a potential candidate for president in next years elections. His arrest on charges including attempted rape shocked France and cast intense attention on his accuser, a 32-year-old chambermaid from the West African nation of Guinea.On Tuesday her lawyer, Jeffrey Shapiro, said he had no doubts his client was telling the truth about her encounter with Strauss-Kahn on Saturday.She came from a country in which poor people had little or no justice, and shes now in a country where the poor have the same rights as do the rich and the powerful, Shapiro said. What (Strauss-Kahn) might be able to get away with in some countries, he cant here in this country.Strauss-Kahns lawyer, Benjamin Brafman, said at his clients arraignment this week that defense lawyers believe the forensic evidence will not be consistent with a forcible encounter.But Shapiro dismissed suggestions that the woman had made up the charges or tried to cover up a consensual encounter.This is nothing other than a physical, sexual assault by this man on this young woman, Shapiro said in an interview