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By Peter J. Howe, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Aug. 31--CASE CAST AS VILLAIN IN AOL-TIME WARNER DEBACLE: "Stealing Time: Steve Case, Jerry Levin, and the Collapse of AOL Time Warner," by Alec Klein, Simon & Schuster, 336 pp., $25.95.

The first five words of Alec Klein's new book "Stealing Time" -- "Steve Case was blabbering on" -- make it clear who will assume the central villain's role in this account of the corporate disaster known as the America Online-Time Warner merger.

Almost from the moment the $175 billion com

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