The interest in this case started not with Lebed--the essential facts of his story were known months earlier.

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Once Ravi understood that he would be living with Clementi, not Picone, he felt that he knew these essential facts: his roommate was gay, profoundly uncool, and not well off.

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This is a straightforward recital of the facts -- a more detailed portrait of his time in Massachusetts can be found in the essential book "The Real Romney, " written by two Boston Globe reporters, Michael Kranish and Scott Helman.

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