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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 guy dies in Act IV—but much of the play’s drama revolves around the letters’ secret authorship...

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Submitted a written argument saying it's 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. epstein's bail hearing is monday. prosecutors say he's an extreme flight risk due to his wealth. shep? >> shepard: thanks, bryan llenas. bob bianchi is here. epstein's team is like we want out on bail. we'll give up $77 million. >> yeah, thanks. that's a cent to somebody like me and you. >> shepard: the question is, alex acosta says when he was a federal prosecutor down in florida, he did what he could do. ...

Has said nothing is off the table. they're 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 we've been paying iran? >> i doubt it. highly unlikely. once money like that is gone to a place like that, it's gone for good. >> john roberts with the updates. thanks. a federal appeals court is planning to move very quickly to decide whether to restore the president's travel ban. right after the administration submits its written argument, a three-...