Do you have an answer or part-answer?

Here is the question regarding the former IMF chief, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, as posed by a Time Magazine journalist:

"How can it be, in this ostensibly enlightened age, when men and women live and work as peers and are schooled regularly in what conduct is acceptable and what is actionable, that anyone with so little judgment, so little honour, could rise to such heights?"

It's way past my bed-time right now and unwise to forfeit further sleep.  I'm hoping that the sun is up when you read this question and that you may venture at least part of an answer?