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...final piece of this puzzling jigsaw is Linda's gym assistant Chad Feldheimer, played by Pitt with a blithe goofball goodness. Outfitted in Spandex, and getting around with a walk that suggests less a guest on Dancing With the Stars than a heretofore unclassified creature on Animal Planet, Chad-Brad is the least troubled character in the film. He's never thought hard enough to consider how other people might think of him; he has no special dreams to defer, no ambitions to be crushed. For him, the unexamined life is the only one worth living...
...inside the hall, however, the self-destructive spirit of anti-Obama dissent had drained away. When New York's turn came to vote, Clinton moved to suspend the roll call and select Obama by acclamation. The band played Love Train. And so it was that Barack Obama - human jigsaw puzzle of races and ethnicities - became the first African-American standard-bearer of a major party. There were many black faces with tears rolling down them, and even though Obama plays down the historic nature of his achievement, it's clear that a lot of people saw the beginning...
Whether you see Biden's strengths as augmenting Obama or highlighting the Illinois senator's weaknesses, there's no doubt the two fit like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. Where Obama may be criticized for inexperience, Biden has 35 years in the Senate to his credit. Some have fretted about Obama's lack of foreign policy depth; Biden is chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee and the guy world leaders call in a crisis - he was in Tbilisi this past week at the behest of embattled Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili. Obama has had a hard time appealing to working class...
...Stricter rules, though, won't do anything to fix the industry's broader problem. "The big, missing piece of this jigsaw is a compelling alternative" to illegal sites, says Mulligan. Credit the industry, though, with getting closer. Granting cell-phone users months of free access to a catalogue of songs, for instance, Nokia will launch its Comes With Music service later this year, reimbursing artists and their labels from expected new sales of its music-compatible phones; a similar service, available through Korea's LG, comes out this summer. Offers like those won't put an end to all illegal...
...Murdoch saw an opportunity in the jigsaw of James' businesses. Late last year, Packer's people split the family conglomerate into media and gaming divisions, with James more focused on the latter. Just before Christmas, Murdoch approached his mate about doing a deal on the group's media fragment, CMH. Over a wet January weekend, bunkered down in a city office, the pair nutted out their privatization plan, which would raise Packer's stake in CMH from 38% to 50% and give the other half to Murdoch, who would take charge as executive chairman. "I am only interested in running...