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...People get excited about them,” he says. “There’s something about this—it’s like a haiku in a way. You have to boil down what you’re thinking about...
...down from the shelf and you can hold the collected works of J.D. Salinger - one novel, three volumes of stories - in the palm of one hand. Like some of his favorite writers - like Sappho, whom we know only from ancient fragments, or the Japanese poets who crafted 17-syllable haiku - Salinger was an author whose large reputation pivots on very little. The first of his published stories that he thought were good enough to preserve appeared in the New Yorker in 1948. Seventeen years later he placed one last story there and drew down the shades...
Until Herman Van Rompuy became Belgium's Prime Minister 11 months ago, he was barely known even in his home country. But on Thursday night, the self-effacing former economist, whose hobbies include caravanning and writing haiku, was named the European Union's first permanent President...
...Secretary of State is more thankless than glamorous; in some ways, the Department of State, a noble antique, is still trying to come to terms with the invention of the telephone. In an era when Twitter haiku-messaging rules, diplomacy moves at the speed, and requires the nuanced complexity, of literature. Power has drifted from State to the National Security Council and the Pentagon, especially in wartime. Only a few of Clinton's recent predecessors have distinguished themselves. Henry Kissinger, a National Security Adviser who belatedly became Secretary of State, was Richard Nixon's schizophrenic alter ego; George Shultz...
...next couple of hours, though, something to do. FlyBy knows you're not getting anything done--how long have you been in that same seat? Here's a long piece from The Atlantic, talking about what makes us happy. That's nice. Haiku breakup, on the other hand, will only make you happy because it's not you. This video about child beauty pageants will probably just freak you out (seriously...). These Google Chrome commercials will make you feel warm and fuzzy inside (cute commercials don't do that...