So some people claim to be puzzled by the quiet talks the easy-going president has started with the heads of the country's main political parties.

ECONOMIST: Germany

Olympia Snowe (R-ME) appeared to be puzzled by Kennedy's comment.

NPR: Senate Panel Studies Intelligence Community

Investors who were supposed to be cheered by talk of getting private capital back to India were instead puzzled by a plan for retrospectively levying tax on big firms.

ECONOMIST: Indian politics

Moreover, I am puzzled by what appears to be the core of his message.

BBC: Are Republicans the 'stupid party'?

Mr Blair was clearly puzzled by what appeared to be an irrelevant question.

ECONOMIST: Food

If the historian of 2111 will be puzzled by such a chart, what is the citizen of today to make of it?

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