Word: internment
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...chatted with the security guard via intercom and then stepped into the gray and green hallway that would be my office for the next eight weeks. The place was completely empty. My coworker Miriam cheerily informed me at 9:45 that no one comes in on Mondays. The other interns all had the day off. I didn’t even know if Michelle, our boss, was coming in that day. I was confused, tired, sweaty and annoyed—not sexy. Plus, later in the week, I discovered that the cocky, Banana-Republic intern in the office down...
Once the newness wears off, New York accepts you. The human traffic on the sidewalks leaves room for you to join the fast-paced rush to work. The cocky intern turns out to be a nice guy. And you get a permanent three-day weekend...
...More than ten weeks after Levy was last seen or heard from, authorities are sure of one thing: The intern was the victim of foul play. Suicide is almost certainly out at this point. Even if she leapt from a bridge, says one agent, "You can't go jumping into the water this time of year without coming up looking like the Goodyear Blimp...
...April 30 disappearance of Chandra Levy, the Washington intern who was about to leave D.C., has become a media obsession. Representative Gary Condit, the California Congressman who supposedly had an affair with Levy, agreed to cooperate with DC police this week by taking a lie detector test and letting them search his apartment in the capitol...
...only for the sake of speculation: a deftly sinister and manipulative Machiavellian, if he were guilty of something far worse than adultery, might behave exactly as Condit has. That is, he might use an apparent ineptness at public relations, combined with grudging revelation of the affair with an intern (tacky, but comparatively innocent, under the circumstances) to mask an infinitely uglier offense. This would be misdirection of the kind Dwight Eisenhower practiced almost half a century ago, when he addressed his press conferences in fuddled syntax that allowed reporters and other great intellectuals to go away joking about what...