Word: jigsaw
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...Hyman around will greatly ease Faust’s learning curve. Hyman is particularly critical because of his central role in academic planning for Allston. Although much of the public focus in Allston planning has been on placing buildings and negotiating with the community, Allston presents a 1000-piece jigsaw puzzle in terms of determining what schools, departments, and labs will move across the river. Such planning demands an adroit politician with an acute sense of the needs of individual researchers. Hyman has stepped into this role with ease, and given the wealth of experience he has accumulated over...
Leathers' genius for organization became apparent on the first day of construction, when he roamed everywhere on the site, calmly answering questions and giving advice. Teams of workers built the playground section by section, assembling the numbered pieces of wood as they would a giant jigsaw puzzle. Age did not seem a barrier: Henry Stiles, 71, a retired maintenance worker, dispensed the tools collected by volunteers (including 15 rasps, 30 saws and 25 shovels), while a group of first-graders sanded wood. Tiffany Greenis, 8, carried trays of apples and carrots to workers, while her mother Lynn picked up fresh...
...Still, in a complex event with lots of witnesses, there will always be an anomalous bit of evidence - someone whose recollection differs from the mainstream, or physical evidence that can be inserted into the jigsaw in a new way. "Some people need conspiracy theories," says Cary Cooper, a professor of psychology and health at Lancaster University. The loved one of someone who dies may find it easier to bear if the death can be viewed as something other than a random tragic accident. That may explain Mohammed al Fayed's total conviction that his son was murdered. He called...
...souls of the dead returning to visit on el Dia de los Muertos, but Oaxaca itself is very much a ghost town on this holiday. The beautiful colonial city has been wracked by months of labor protests and, then, beginning last weekend, violent government reprisals. It is now a jigsaw puzzle of barricades and graffiti: "Murderers," "Power to the People." The streets are mostly empty except for the occasional pedestrian carrying the "Pan de Muerto"-the sweet bread of the dead decorated with skull and bones...
...Morose devotion is the theme of Saw III, though I doubt the folks at the Regal dwelled overmuch on this aspect. Jigsaw's main victim is Jeff (Angus McFayden), who has been consumed with bilious revenge since his beloved son was killed by a driver who received a light prison sentence. Now in Jigsaw's lair, Jeff must go through several torture tests to prove he can forgive those who wronged him. In an apparently unrelated "B" story, Jigsaw has kidnaped Lynn (Bahar Soomekh), a doctor, to see if she can relieve the pain of his brain tumor. For those...