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...easy to understand why Condit would be reluctant to go outside. It is now the third month of saturation coverage of the disappearance of Chandra Levy. While authorities seem no closer to finding out what happened to the 24-year-old intern, we seem to have learned a lot about the secret life of a preacher's kid from Oklahoma who grew up to be a California Congressman. He once campaigned under the slogan "Setting a Good Example." It was a dangerous boast for any public official to make, practically a dare to be proved wrong...
...Even if Condit had nothing to do with Chandra Levy's disappearance - police continue to insist that he's not a suspect - his painstakingly tended image has been shattered and his political career declared dead. Democrats and Republicans are already scheming how to carve his conservative district to maximum advantage, or reapportion it out of existence. "If he's smart, he won't even run for re-election," says A.G. Block, executive editor of California Journal, a magazine on state politics...
...This was the week the apparent chaff - the Hell's Angels ties, the Bill Macy comparisons, the alleged attempt to hush a stewardess - finally fell away. Condit ended last week by admitting Saturday in his third interview with police that he had indeed had a romantic relationship with Chandra Levy. And with that the hounds were loosed...
...From a criminal-justice standpoint, the start of the searching seems ridiculously tardy. Chandra Levy has been missing since April 30, and to put it baldly, physical evidence is probably in short supply by now. But from a media standpoint, a slow accumulation of angles and subplots is most desirable - the news-consuming public wants a mystery, a topic of conversation, not a data dump...
...Finally, while the corporeal center of the case of Chandra Levy is Chandra Levy, the media would never have swarmed all over "The Search for Chandra" if it were only Chandra they were looking...