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...Hitomaro uses the metaphor of a mountain pheasant's dragging tail ("The long tail/ of the copper pheasant") to evoke the wistfulness of a long, lonely night. The elderly Mrs. Ueda picked up without hesitation on the third line - "drags on and on" - and ended the poem with a smile. In the moment that followed, we both felt the echo of words that nimbly and delightfully spanned generations, cultures and centuries, and understood exactly why the Hyakunin Isshu is so enduring. Fujiwara no Teika may have shown the world a gruff, ill-natured and unlovely face, but no ogre...
...important." Thus advised, the first graduating class of Bangalore's new Dale Carnegie Training center splits into pairs, each earnestly practicing a routine the students have spent four months learning. "Hi, my name is Gautam," I'm told while my hand gets a vigorous shake. Dazzled by the bright smile and seemingly effortless eye contact, I barely manage to mumble my own name before my companion moves briskly along and I find myself being asked what I do for a living. All around me are similar smiling faces and heads nodding attentively in synch. Eventually the conversations take...
...transfusion, a lot of thought, discussion, writing and worry, the medical guys called me in, told me Sandy's story and asked if I would take care of his hip. He was still in the ICU. But instead of the shriveled, unresponsive mess I expected, there was this big smile and huge handshake from an unshaven but definitely handsome seventysomething guy. Sandy was a big man, broad-shouldered and lantern-jawed - and as pleasant and clubby as could be. He didn't remember anything about lying on the floor for three days; he barely complained about his shortened, twisted left...
...greeted me with the same big smile and handshake I had gotten 20 minutes earlier. Same pleas to get home: "Please, can't you help me, Scott?" (I gave him the same "We're working on it" cop-out.) He regaled me with a different story about the boys at the club, though, with different details. But no reference to my earlier rounds. When I asked, "Do you remember what we talked about 20 minutes ago?" he was all smiles and familiar reassurances. But when I asked for specifics, they were wrong. That was it. He was confabulating...
True, the Red Sox slugger broke out of a truly embarrassing slump over the weekend, but he did so against the Texas Rangers, the second-worst team in the Major Leagues. And even with that, Ortiz - whose big smile and clutch hitting over the past five years have made him arguably the most popular player in all of baseball - has hit just two home runs in 79 at bats and is batting a meager .177. Fewer than a dozen AL starters have worse numbers...