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...media sinks its teeth deeper into the story, Chandra Levy's disappearance becomes less about the person and more about the scandal. Levy has been lost twice - first physically, and now in the media coverage...
...Boston church's shift--it opposed the bill a week earlier--came amid a messy sexual-abuse scandal. Bernard Cardinal Law recently admitted, as part of a civil lawsuit against the church by abuse victims, that after he was informed that John Geoghan, a priest, had allegedly molested seven boys, he transferred Geoghan to several other Boston parishes. Geoghan, who retired in 1993 and was defrocked five years later, is accused of molesting at least 70 children. He has pleaded not guilty to the charges...
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...
...many times as he needs to. Last week Bill Clinton emerged from his self-imposed post-pardon-scandal exile. When he opened his new office on 125th Street in Harlem, with its $350,000 annual rent (his first choice, Carnegie Towers in midtown, would have cost taxpayers $800,000), it was full-frontal Clinton--winking, mugging at the most mundane remarks, pointing excitedly into the crowd as if he had just spotted a long-lost friend or a donor. Except for Senator Chuck Schumer, stage center, trying to boogie with the homeboys, it was picture perfect, a routine ribbon cutting...