I just reread the Sundial article. Content aside, it's fairly well written, passable for an Ivy League senior in terms of such basics as sentence structure, grammar, vocabulary, and, and syntax, but does not impress as the work of a literary genius.
Since Bill Ayers was believed to have been in the neighborhood at the time, would be interested in the subject, and is believed to have later ghostwritten at least one book under Obama's name, it's possible Ayers could have done this article. Jack Cashill would be an expert on this issue.
So, Honolulu Star and Advertiser, where are all the “local boy does good” articles? Even if his classmates had to play Six Degrees to Barry, they’d be coming out of the woodwork to claim they knew him when but it’s basically crickets.
Yes, there's a striking contrast between the total absence of contemporary newspaper coverage of Zero's purported years at Columbia and the noteworthy and favorable newspaper coverage of his later years at Harvard Law School.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2879098/posts?page=292#292
Ayers returned to school to study early childhood education at Bank Street College of Education and received his master’s degree in 1984. Staying on there, he worked as an instructor while working on a doctorate in curriculum and teaching, which he completed in 1987...
The bride, who will be known as Mrs. Moustafa-Cook, graduated from the Emma Willard School and Swarthmore College, and received a master’s degree in education from the Bank Street College of Education.
(Genevieve Cook and William Ayres were at the Bank Street College at the same time. IIRC...Tom Ayres was on the Board of the College.)