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...Chandra's mother tried to find her, she ended up talking to Washington's other missing person--the Disappearing Congressman. After getting hold of Chandra's cell-phone records in late May and seeing about 20 calls to the same number, Susan Levy dialed it, listened to the soft music and instructions to punch in her number. When she did, she says, she wasn't surprised that California Representative Gary Condit phoned back--she was almost certain his relationship with her daughter was more than professional. But Condit was surprised. They spoke briefly and awkwardly and haven't talked since...
...more than a month, Washington has been intrigued by two missing persons. First came the Missing Intern, Chandra Levy, 24, last seen April 30, when she closed out her membership at a D.C. health club. She hasn't been heard from since she e-mailed her parents on May 1 about flights home for her graduation from the University of Southern California. When her parents couldn't reach her for five days, they called the D.C. police, who entered Chandra's Dupont Circle apartment on May 10. They found no signs of a struggle and everything in order--a packed...
...What about a child's disappearance? Is that even worse than a child's known death? The answer depends of course on the outcome. A vanishing, like that of Chandra Levy in Washington D.C. seven weeks ago, must in some ways compound the evil. It torments the parents by holding out the faintest possibility of hope. It condemns them to dangle in a state of anguish amounting to suspended animation. Gradually, their hope may brown out and expire, the way that a flashlight does as the batteries slowly go dead...
...Chandra Levy was - I mean, is- not a child, but a 24-year-old woman: her parents' child in any case. They must bear the added mystery of her relationship (whatever that was) with the Congressman - a smear of prurient Washington intern-scandal. Evil, which can be so crummy and ordinary, always enjoys a tabloid touch. If it were not for the business about the Congressman, Gary Condit of California - made more titillating by his evasiveness - Chandra would have disappeared from the newspapers almost as abruptly as she vanished from her Washington apartment...
...Meantime, evil goes to and fro in the earth, and walks up and down in it. In Thursday morning's edition of the New York Times, a Chandra Levy story appears on page A-22: "POLICE ASK CONGRESSMAN TO TALK ABOUT INTERN." Right next to that story is a picture of a woman wearing glasses, staring straight ahead, with her hands in her lap, and a caption that is disturbing in a different vein: "Andrea Yates in custody yesterday after calling officers to her Houston home, where her four sons and one daughter, ages 6 months to 7 years...