Word: jigsaw
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Understanding Cambodia has always seemed like trying to put together a three-dimensional jigsaw of morality, politics and geography. Some pieces are missing, some are scuffed and torn beyond recognition, some bent completely out of shape; a few fit nowhere at all. The picture appears to show a maze through which the country has been stalked by successive monsters: a coup followed by brutal civil war, careless U.S. policies, strategic bombing, a Marxist revolution so bloody that it came to be called autogenocide, international and regional power politics, liberation and occupation by a hated neighbor, famine, decay and renewed civil...
...Some experts interpret going into Somalia as a test that, if it succeeds, might encourage further involvement in the jigsaw of republics that used to make up Yugoslavia. The difficulty of ignoring the merits of Bosnia's claim to help apparently led Washington to plan a call this week for armed enforcement of a much violated two-month-old ban on military flights over the Balkan republic. Others counter that helping Somalia will ease the pressure to intervene in the Balkans by proving the U.S. is not stymied everywhere...
...goal is to keep as many teams as possible, but I can't forecast the future," Cleary says. "It's like a jigsaw puzzle out there: you have to try to fit the pieces in the puzzle to keep the programs. Because, after all, that's what we're in business for: the programs. It's for the kids...
...shop caters to a high-brow audience, stocking "The World's Most Difficult Jigsaw Puzzle," the Official Politically Correct Dictionary and Handbook and numerous videos on art or astronomy on its shelves...
Imagine that you are trying to solve a jigsaw puzzle. If you can put all the pieces of the puzzle together, you will understand many of the mysteries of the human body...