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The Atlantic Modern Communication’s Big Open Secret The assumption that we are the sole authors of our texts and emails is a collective fiction—but a useful one. Updated at 1:00 p.m. ET on April 15, 2021. In the late-19th-century play Cyrano de Bergerac, the eloquent title character gets a woman to fall deeply in love with another man by ghostwriting letters, as him, to her. The details are a bit messy—Cyrano himself is also in love with the woman, the woman is his cousin, and the other ...

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Submitted a written argument saying its safe to let jeffery epstein out on bail. in it, his attorneys say epstein is willing to put up his private jet and new york city mansion as lateral. epsteins bail hearing is monday. prosecutors say hes an extreme flight risk due to his wealth. shep? >> shepard: thanks, bryan llenas. bob bianchi is here. epsteins team is like we want out on bail. well give up $77 million. >> yeah, thanks. thats a cent to somebody like me and you. >> shepard: the question is...

Has said nothing is off the table. theyre considering more sanctions if iran continues to, as the president said, not behave. harris? >> harris: one big question, do we get any of the money particular, particularly the $1.7 billion nonransom that weve been paying iran? >> i doubt it. highly unlikely. once money like that is gone to a place like that, its gone for good. >> john roberts with the updates. thanks. a federal appeals court is planning to move very quickly to decide whether to restore ...

>> all of this i tried to put behind me when i came back home to unite america, not to divide it. >> reporter: trump insists hes done his part for veterans, including serving as grand marshal for a veterans parade he helped pay for in 1995. as for lindsey graham, he was bombarded with so many phone calls after trump gave out his phone number on national television, that he says he now needs to get a new phone. jonathan karl, abc news, the white house. well bill cosbys attorneys have made their...