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New Yorker Haiku

September 18, 2006

Annals of Economics: Mind Games
By John Cassidy

Economists want
To scan your brain, find why you
Aren’t more rational.

Reflections: In the Waiting Room
By David Sedaris

Forget learning French:
In Paris, “d’accord” means
Random fun (sans clothes)!

Profiles: The Wanderer
By David Remnick

Now ex-Prez, Clinton
Working to save Africa
As Friend of Bill (Gates).

Fiction: Something That Needs Nothing
By Miranda July

Girl, not one she wants?
A wig and a peep-show gig
Might work for a spell.

On Television: Her Debut
By Tad Friend

Couric as anchor:
So much likability,
No time left for news.

A Critic At Large: War and Remembrance
By Ian Buruma

Grass’s great memoir:
Boy lost in heroic myths.
(Is the man as well?)

Books: Hugger-Mugger
By John Updike

Congo schemes, despair
From le Carre. No closure
In Ward Just’s dark tale.

The Current Cinema: Inescapable Pasts
By David Denby

“The Black Dahlia”
Is choked of life. “The Ground Truth”:
Feel Iraq vets’ shock.