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What is truly astounding about the situation involving Congressman Gary Condit [NATION, July 30] is not the scandal or the whereabouts of intern Chandra Levy but the audacity of any public figure, especially a politician, to be so self-deluded as to think he can escape the attention of the Argus-eyed media. When will these politicians learn that their every move is being watched, and any impropriety will certainly catch someone's attention sooner or later? To think otherwise is a high-stakes gamble that can, and often does, end up costing them their career. ALIDAD VAKILI La Jolla...
...other, more traditional, and, I suppose, more substantive experiences this summer. I worked in the office of Rep. Bob Barr (R-Ga.), and was at the center of the Condit scandal for a day after Barr became the first member of Congress to call for the resignation of Rep. Gary Condit (D-Calif.). Poring through books and websites to research the particulars of requesting a Congressional ethics investigation certainly constitutes a memorable project...
...holding up very well," she tells TIME. "It's been a very rough week." Levy says both she and her husband Robert take sleeping pills and tranquilizers at night. "I'm often sick to my stomach. It's sheer terror." Still, Levy won't call for Gary Condit to quit. "Let the people decide for themselves." But she does take a shot at California Governor Gray Davis, noting that he hasn't called the family, whereas the state's two Senators have...
Suddenly, this is no longer news about a missing woman, young enough to be your daughter, or about a mother and father, terrified enough to be you. It becomes: Doesn't Condit look like the wound-tight kind of guy who might do away with an inconvenience or a threat? And what about that wristwatch box he tossed in the trash...
...know about you, I feel kind of cheap every time I consider this business as if it were a thrilling detective novel to be read during a summer thunderstorm because I don't know a single thing about the character of Gary Condit or about serial killings in the District or about the guy who works at Levy's health club or her landlord or the other people living in her apartment house...