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Other problems arose to turn Cabinetmaking into a complicated jigsaw puzzle. Reagan clearly wanted to select experienced people, but hard-line conservatives like North Carolina's Jesse Helms opposed having too many "retreads" from the Nixon and Ford Administrations. An added complication was the fact that Reagan intends to govern largely through an executive committee, an "inner circle" of six or so senior Cabinet officers, plus, on appropriate occasions, the directors...
Because it has neither dogma nor Pope, and lacks both the promise of immortality and the threat implied in sin, Buddhism is often dismissed as a weak religion. In reality it offers one of the few elements of cohesion in the ethnographic jigsaw that is Southeast Asia. On the plains, the Buddha's concepts of the "flood" (travail in the material world) and "further shore" (the search for nirvana) are apt metaphors for peasant lives constantly subjected to natural disasters. In mountain societies, which are often driven by a lust for Lebensraum, Buddhism's "middle way" tempers excesses...
...need to quibble. Let's just say that all of these gentlemen have identified part of the historical jigsaw puzzle...
...which nobody ran for office, a town full of champion duck callers, a 78-year-old man who had spent 20 years building a road singlehanded, a town on the edge of Thomas Jefferson's Louisiana Purchase. Each vignette, Kuralt hoped, would provide "a little piece of the jigsaw puzzle that this country is." In sharp contrast to the rest of the news, his stories celebrated qualities of playfulness, compassion, pride, and individual accomplishment. Says he: "I could never nap or read in the camper. I was forever looking out the window, afraid I would miss something...
...Bela Lugosi, star of the Dracula films, tried to take this doctrine a step further. They argued that this right was essentially property and therefore should pass on to heirs. In a California suit, they asked the courts to stop Universal Pictures from merchandising 70 Dracula products, ranging from jigsaw puzzles to belt buckles, and sought compensation based on the profits. Citing the First Amendment, Universal replied that the design of merchandise is a form of free speech that should not be restrained by anyone's heirs. Besides, said Universal's lawyer, Robert Wilson, Lugosi "attained fame...