Late evening, I looked to the eastern sky and found my old friends Andromeda, Pegasus, Perseus and Triangulum. Toward the horizon I could make out the tiny points of Pleiades.
Stein was born on November 25, 1944 in Washington, D.C., the son of Jewish parents Mildred (née Fishman), a homemaker, and Herbert Stein, a writer, economist, and presidential adviser.