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...Search Support Group: How to find or create your own--with phyllis Stein, director of Radcliffe Career Services. In Agassiz House in Radcliffe Yard at 4 p.m. Admissions is $5, free for Harvard students...
Nelson Peltz has been charged with no crimes, and I'm not implying he has committed any. He has been indicted only by writer Benjamin Stein in Barron's. (Stein persuasively accuses Peltz of having skewered his fellow shareholders.) Now 49, and married to a former Ford model, he owns an $18 million Palm Beach estate, a 106-acre, 22-room Westchester summer place and, I was told by his public-relations chief, is deeply concerned with the plight of the homeless...
There is a subtler, graver flaw, one that readers may not recognize unless they pick up another current book about Von Stein's case, Jerry Bledsoe's Blood Games (Dutton; 451 pages; $22.95). In telling Bonnie Von Stein's story, McGinniss adopts, consciously or not, her view that her son was mostly a pawn manipulated by dangerous friends. McGinniss stresses the young man's weakness of character and instability; he quotes defense and prosecution attorneys describing the youth as a "wimp," and attempts to establish his two co- conspirators as evil geniuses. Even the photograph McGinniss uses shows Von Stein...
...Dragons; Bledsoe does a far better job of explaining that game. Both books are freighted with pointless multigenerational background for the main characters, but Bledsoe's is less tedious. Not only are the co-conspirators almost ciphers in McGinniss's book, but so is the murdered husband Lieth Von Stein, while Bledsoe brings him alive...
Mostly, however, the divergence of the books demonstrates the journalistic axiom that access is everything. Bonnie Von Stein felt abused by the police and prosecutors and didn't like the final verdict; she was convinced the wrong youth had been named as principal assailant. So McGinniss takes an artificially long 200 pages to get anyone arrested and even then keeps casting doubt on the official story, to the point of raising last-minute doubts about the complete innocence of Von Stein's daughter. Bledsoe, however, seemingly had help from the police and builds the latter half of his book around...