I believe the "intern issue" in Washington and even state governments is an important issue that has been
overlooked for too long. It's time for parents to wake up and realize what happens to their daughters and
sons when these kids have to fend for themselves, perhaps for the first time in their young lives.- Mephisto
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"It is hard not to see Chandra Levy somewhere in all this. I didn't know her, but I feel as if I have. In the Georgetown bars and Southeast D.C. dance clubs, thousands of Chandras come and go, often blurring into one another, looking for love in the wrong places and getting up early for yet another exhausting day changing the world. Some of what goes on is truly depressing. I saw it time and again : young women charmed by older men, bowled over by a powerful differential that is hard to resist. I know one longtime Washingtonian who even referred to each influx of interns, jokingly, as "the flesh."
Excerpt from the article: Sex and This City
"Even without the harsh glare of scandal, Washington's sexual dynamic has always had a uniquely predatory cast."
BY Andrew Sullivan
From The New York Times Magazine , July 22, Section 6, p.15
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