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...other missives, from business letters to thank-you notes, that bore his name. For nearly 15 years, his every public word was composed by Jennie Erdal, who masqueraded as an editor at Attallah's London publishing firm but worked as his full-time ghostwriter. Now Erdal tells all in Ghosting: A Memoir (Canongate; 273 pages), a meditation on literary identity and a surprisingly generous love letter to the person who reaped praise and prestige from her labors while keeping her in salaried obscurity. (Discreetly, she refers to him only as "Tiger," after the lifelike tiger-skin rug that adorned...
...napping on the black-metal futon in my harshly lit common room. My Arabic homework is indecipherable, and I dropped it on the floor as my consciousness gave up the ghost a few minutes ago. A puddle of drool is diffusing outward from my semi-open maw at a rate proportional to its density. Or something...
Tueday was the night the ghosts died in the Bush White House. There was the ghost of his last campaign, which Bush lost among voters but won in the court. There was the ghost of his father's last campaign, when even winning a war was not enough to earn a second term. And then there was the ghost of Tuesday afternoon, when the entire Bush campaign team was haunted by the possibility that they had got it all wrong, as the first exit polls came in and nothing, but nothing, was going their...
...Osama bin Laden had delivered another video to al-Jazeera. It looked like the opportunity to ride the storyline the White House loved best--right through the final days. Whenever voters were reminded of terrorism, they had never failed to turn to the President. Kerry had been using the ghost of bin Laden for months, arguing that Bush had let him go. But now that the real thing was back on their TV screens, voters would focus less on what had happened in the past and more on which man could take care of the threat now. It would "bring...
...want to bury a ghost, you have to dig a very deep hole. And the Sox had dug themselves a doozy: down three games to none against the pin-striped demons of New York, Boston trailed, 4-3, as the team headed into the bottom of the ninth inning of what could have been the final game of the American League Championship Series (ALCS), three outs from another despairing winter...