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...inspectors. They crunched and recrunched scraps of data through a massive parallel-processing computer borrowed from the Pentagon, sifting through school lists, driver's-license registries, lists of people who had checked certain books out of libraries in California and the Middle West. "It was just an incredibly complicated jigsaw puzzle," says a former FBI agent who worked on the case...
...unscrupulous can then reassemble as they see fit. Although it is impossible to prove any of the Gospels false, so little of them can be historically proved to be true, Johnson suggests, that by emphasizing that fact, scholars like Crossan and Funk have put themselves in the position of "jigsaw-puzzle solvers who are presented with 27 pieces of a thousand-piece puzzle and find that only six or seven of the pieces even fit together." A reasonable person, he maintains, would "put those pieces together, make some guess about what that part of the puzzle might be about...
...this false sense of knowledge, based not on experience but on easy answers and ready-made explanations offered by escapist non-fiction, that can truly be damaging. Logically, it would seem that problems would be better solved looking at each relationship rather than trying to fit our jigsaw pieces into someone else's puzzle...
...final details included agreements to preserve safe passage for each side through territory controlled by the other in the delicate jigsaw puzzle forged in Dayton. Muslims and Croats, for example, are assured a safe corridor through Serbian territory from Sarajevo to the Muslim city of Goradze. Serbs won protection on the Posavina corridor, which connects a Serb area in western Bosnia with the main Serb territory in the east to a passage through what will now be Muslim-Croat territory. "It looks as if the crucial event was President Clinton's call to Croatian President Franjo Tudjman yesterday," says Graff...
...deal can be achieved at all, can it last? Behind the scenes, Serbs and Muslims are already arguing about how long the jigsaw shape of Bosnia must be guaranteed before the Serbs will be allowed to secede. The opening Serb bid was one year, while the Bosnians think their country should be recognized for at least five years...