Word: condit
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...hours, became a changed country. It turned the corner, at last, out of the 1990s. The menu of American priorities was rearranged. The presidency of George W. Bush begins now. What seemed important a few days ago (in the media, at least) became instantly trivial. If Gary Condit is mentioned once in the next six months on cable television, I will be astonished...
...toothpaste, and how bathroom signs are the only places in society where a thin, barrel-chested man can be next to a dumpy woman shaped like a triangle. I was feeling pretty good about myself until he complimented me on the joke I sent him months ago, when Gary Condit's publicist hinted that Chandra Levy slept around: "Ever since Condit accused Chandra Levy of being promiscuous, I am much, much more interested in finding her." I didn't need the old guys to tell me this wasn't even Bob Saget-quality stuff...
GRAY DAVIS Calif. Gov finally takes stand on Gary Condit; saves two salaries when Condit kids quit his staff...
...disturbing story of what happens when integrity gives way to expediency. FORECAST: Hopefully, the news media won?t be so stung by Kalb?s sharp criticism that they ignore it - and media attention should help this important study sell well." All we can say is, thank God for Gary Condit...
...blitzkrieg of interviews that followed, Condit seemed, if anything, even more reluctant to sidle up to an apology, having failed somehow to learn the lesson that political survival means always having to say you're sorry. Pressed by Sacramento's KOVR 13-TV for some moist act of contrition to constituents who feel "betrayed," Condit bit back. "If I have hurt or offended anyone, I certainly would apologize," he said. "But I think you ought to take some responsibility in the media for all the misinformation that you guys have put out there...because you didn't set a standard...