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Reflected Glory is packed with unflattering anecdotes, reminders that public figures with flavorful private lives should sometimes compromise with their chroniclers. An accessible Harriman might have charmed Bedell Smith into changing her title. Who wants to be remembered as merely a gilded mirror, decorative but empty until an influential man...
With enough expensively soiled laundry for a dozen racy novels, Sally Bedell Smith's savvy unauthorized biography, Reflected Glory (Simon & Schuster; 559 pages; $30), reads as if it had written itself. That, of course, is a hard-earned illusion. The former New York Times reporter and author of a book...
Apparently, all those little charges Bedell had been making didn't just disappear--they added up! For innocent, young Michele, the walls started closing in.
Apparently, Radford doesn't require arithmetic as a pre-requisite. And apparently, genius doesn't run in the Bedell family. Michele's mother, Connie, testified that Michele's twin sister is in a similar predicament--with a credit card debt of several thousand dollars and no way to pay it...
It seems Rep. Kennedy thinks the Bedell sisters are representative of most college students. "Without adequately knowing the risks of credit...[students] are racking up huge debts that will plague them for years," he warned.