"The Runner" (The New Press. 192 pages. $22.95), by David Samuels: In the early 1990s, Princeton University erased from its records the grades and race times of sophomore Alexi Santana, a self-taught star runner with a colorful history. The Ivy League university had to erase its records because, in fact, Alexi Santana never existed. He was the invention of a 28-year-old drifter with a criminal ...

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