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Gary Condit says he "is not perfect." He confesses that he has made his "share of mistakes." He is sorry that the Levy family is in pain. And he definitely doesn't want to talk about the specifics of his relationship with Chandra Levy...
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...
There was a flurry of media excitement last week when a tip suggested Chandra Levy's body was buried in Fort Lee, Va. The lead turned out to be bogus. For Chandra's mother Susan, it was an especially hard episode. "I'm not 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...
...more interesting than what anyone else might say (I don't) or because I take the purist's stand and wish to withhold judgment until the facts are in. It is simply because I have seen enough of sadness in the news to tell me that--unless Chandra turns up alive--this is the story of something very bad happening to a young woman, and, for the moment, I do not know what more there is to say about that...
...what people will do to one another. Given who they are and their individual circumstances, they will do absolutely anything to one another. The accumulation of this knowledge leaves one revulsed, heartbroken and, in some dark way, amazed. But it does not leave one with much to say. Chandra Levy's story is about what people will do to one another, and I don't feel like writing about that...