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...These days Dayton has lost his swagger. As the Chandra Levy case drags on, Dayton finds himself under the hot lights along with his boss. Law-enforcement officials have questioned Dayton about whether he tried to hinder their investigation. Dayton denies any such thing. Still, he has retained a top Washington criminal-defense lawyer, Stanley Brand. Another top Condit aide, chief of staff Mike Lynch, who publicly denied the affair in the weeks before Condit admitted it to the police, has hired ex?Timothy McVeigh prosecutor Beth Wilkinson. (Lynch has not been questioned recently, a source tells TIME.) Suddenly...
...Interminably this summer, all summer long, it is Chandra and Condit! Condit and Chandra...
...There's something grimly funny about the fact that the news coverage of the Chandra Levy disappearance, and of the still unfolding, formerly private life of Representative Condit, has itself become an issue. CBS' Dan Rather - acting from old-fashioned journalistic principle and also, it may be, from a touch of what might be called artful self-righteousness - has rather grandly declined, for the most part, to cover the Levy-Condit business, on grounds it is essentially a non-story that has been disgustingly sensationalized by the media...
...Pollsters like Andrew Kohut are now putting this spin on sensational news: The public doesn't really want to read about it - doesn't really pay that much attention, for example, to the Chandra Levy-Gary Condit story. This argument suggests that Americans are much more high-minded than the drooling, cynical media seem to assume. The theory flatters our self-esteem...
...Around the dinner tables I've sat at lately, absolutely no one declined, in the Kohut mode, to talk about Chandra Levy and Gary Condit. Almost all criticized Chandra's family for their weirdly non-judgmental and even coyly receptive reaction when they learned young Chandra was having an affair with a much older, married Congressman. Not the way for parents to behave! Condit himself is, of course, a source of endless speculation. Is he himself a victim? Or a monster...