The LA Times has a sympathetic but hardly exculpatory portrait of former Boalt Dean Dwyer. Gist: he's a hard-luck child, a dazzling intellect, and also an overly charming walking disaster in relationships with a history of seducing younger women and bragging about it.

Dwyer's marriage to Beltran ended in divorce when "he fell in love with someone else," Beltran said softly. She said she did not know whether his new interest at the time was a student. Beltran referred to herself as Dwyer's second wife, and his colleagues at Boalt also said she was his second wife, but she was actually his third. His brother Andy said that John's first marriage was to a Kentucky women he met in college. Asked about this Sunday, Beltran said John had implored her to keep his short first marriage a secret. The second wife declined to be interviewed.

The underlying parallel is with Clinton, which appears to be reasonably accurate.

Of course, none of this says all that much about the allegations made against him. Still waiting for more details on that one.Email This Post!