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· To our immense relief, the Commons procedure committee, which yesterday suggested Hansard should introduce a corrections page to its Official Report "for all corrections to inadvertent errors of fact made by ministers and other members who provide information to the House in an official capacity", wants it introduced at "the start of the 2007-08 parliamentary session". So St Tony shouldn't need to bother about that bit where he inadvertently told the house, on Sept 24 2002, "that Iraq has chemical and biological weapons, that Saddam has continued to produce them, that he has existing and active military plans for the use of chemical and biological weapons ... which could be activated within 45 minutes, and that he is actively trying to acquire nuclear weapons capability". Phew.
· In cheering news for tummy bug sufferers everywhere, the Beijing News reports that 40 years of swallowing live tree frogs has completely cured Jiang Musheng, 66, of Jiangxi province in south-east China, of the abdominal pains he endured for the first 26 years of his life. "After only a month of eating live frogs, his stomach pains and coughing were gone," the paper reports, adding that over the years, Jiang has added "live mice, baby rats and green frogs" to his diet, and once ate 20 mice in a single day. Bravo!
· "I'm an 11-plus boy like pretty well everyone in Margaret Thatcher's cabinet," avuncular Ken Clarke told the Today prog. "I go back to the days of meritocracy." Cheeky, he may have passed the 11-plus but he went to Nottingham High, a very grand and very old private (formerly direct grant) establishment. Tut tut.
· Hat's off, next, to Grant Shapps MP (Welwyn Hatfield, Con), who really hit the jackpot with a well-aimed series of written questions to permatanned Pete Hain's Department for Wales. "To ask the secretary of state", Grant inquired, which advertising agencies his department had worked with over the past five years, how much it had spent on advertising over the period, how many times it was found to have been in breach of the Data Protection Act, how much money it had raised by selling its property, how much it had received from letting its properties and how much it had spent on public relations. To which the answers, unaccountably, were None, Nil, None, Nil, Nil and Nil. Still, with replies to written questions costing a mere £140 a pop, it was certainly money well spent.
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Gonna try to avoid a huge wall of text post and will go straight to details on my favorite midlaner, Annie The Dark Child. It's a shame she is mainly played as a support since her kit is very strong as a midlaner capable of bursting down teams with Tibbers alone.
Pros / Cons
Mid Game Terror
Doesn't really fall off late game
Ult is devastating
High Damage
Relies heavily on positioning
Flash is an engage not an escape
Flash is the only tool for escape
If you miss ult, 40% of damage is gone
Greater Quintessence of Ability Power
Greater Glyph of Scaling Magic Resist
Greater Seal of Armor
Greater Mark of Magic Penetration
For Masteries Full Offensive With A Little Tankiness Instead of Utility
The little difference can mean life or death when flashing into a teamfight.
Your passive Pyromania is what makes or breaks a great Annie player. It is key to learn from experiences when it is wise to hold on to it or use it.
Early Game
Usually if there is a big wave approaching tower and there are no signs of a dive, use Disintegrate and Incinerate to avoid loosing minions.
However keep in mind Pyromania can stop dives and can usually net in a kill or two.
Mid Game
If you see an opportune moment to flash kill the any high priority enemy champions, 8/10 it is a good idea. It will net in objectives like Dragon or Towers.
Late Game
Try to always have stun up. It is a saving grace and can deal a killing blow to an enemy team. Catching someone off guard can lead to Baron or even the game.
Skill Sequence
Maxing Q first means better trading during laning phase.
Maxing W second for the aoe cone damage.
Don't Forget about her Molten Shield. It increases her resistances, while burning the opponents alive.
Starting Items
Many people do not think this, but a matchup can shift heavily into your favor by buying the right starting items.
7/10 Usual start. The health, early ap, and mana regen passive is great. No other words needed.
This start is for champions who rely on skillshots to do damage. Perfect for ziggs and xerath. Helps with dodging and gives potions for sustain.
For champion who rely on AD. Good against champions like zed and yasuo. The armor is nice and the pots helps you sustain through the damage.
Items (Mid Game)
CORE ITEMS. They provide great damage while increasing resistance. If against an AP caster, build abyssal then a zhonyas. If they are AD, rush the zhonyas before the abyssal.
Rushing abyssal has made it a walk in the park to nullify mage assassins like Leblanc and pokers like Ziggs. Plus the MR shred synergizes with your close range skills. Getting either the Blasting Wand or Negatron Cloak is fine. Itemize for your lane.
The Zhonyas takes down Zed and other Ad casters. Make sure to build the Seeker's Armguard first.
No matter who the opposing champion is, I build with whatever corresponds with it.
Don't forget to upgrade boots. Either of the two work and both are a charm.
Items (Late Game)
After buying those items, late game will most likely occur. Where all the baron throws and picks and Stealth Ward matters.
This item is the holy grail for AP casters. (Excluding Athene's Unholy Grail of course)It provides for major damage and honestly does not need any more words. However, DO NOT get this item if you are losing.
Get THESE Instead.
Good ole Rylai's. The Health does not go to waste since it synergizes with your E. You gain more resistances from the Zhonya's Hourglass and Abyssal Mask. Overall not a bad addition to your build if you find yourself being poked, focused, or just wanting more tank.
Enemy team building MR? Buy this to counter their counter. Penetration + AP makes it a worthwhile pickup.
Good item to buy when enemy team has a lot of health and you need more penetration along with the Void Staff.
League is a game where the person who makes the fewest mistakes wins. This item is a safety net if you are out of position. It can block the one CC spell that can mean defeat. PLus the MR doesn't hurt.
I repeat DO NOT get stacking items like Tear of the Goddess. Although you spam skills, it will take a long time to finish them and frankly the items they upgrade into do not outweigh the benefits the other items give.
Annie has one job in teamfights. That is to blow up one person while also lowering the health of the champion surrounding your target. That is where Flash comes in handy. Annie becomes a kamikaze, initiating a fight with Tibbers, then quickly use Incinerate and Disintegrate before activating Zhonya's Hourglass. With any luck, the enemy team could have wasted aoe spells/ ultiamte to hopefully stop your terror. However, Annie cannot be stopped.
All in all, Annie is a high damage dealing little girl that should not be messed with. Although immobile, she can single handedly turn a game around with excellent positioning and timing. She can be deceptively tanky and can absolutely carry. Don't Mess With the Little Girl. Hopefully you guys enjoy my first guide. I will slowly add detailed counters day by day.


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Lacked substance for anyone above high school or sophomore in college
Since book is for a younger audience, perhaps a younger narrator.
The book spoke of the value of quantitative analysis and hit its mark there most of the time, but not really in any way that isn't already known. It should have practiced with examples what it actually preaches in the book: make quantitative analysis assessable to the non-quants, in the language of non-quants. While it spoke in the language of non-quants, it didn't quite transfer any specific knowledge.
I will however seek other books to help me attain what the title of this book promised. And that is why I must give this book two stars. I spared it a one star because it does an admiral job being a cheerleader for quantitative analysis; that, and learning about a certain hedge fund manager.
this book had too much filler; it could have been written seemingly in half the pages
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being able to test the things I learnt with the Quants I work with
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The Gateway and tower are all that remain of Macroom Castle, which was granted to Admiral William Penn, (father of the founder of Pennsylvania U.S.A.) by Cromwell.
Macroom Castle
The boyhood home of William Penn during the years that he lived in County Cork. It stands on the western margin of the town of Macroom and its windows look away into the distance where a rugged land lies at the foot of the mountains. King John is said to have built part of the castle. In 1660 the monarchy was restored and under the rule of King Charles 11, the Castle and lands of Macroom were restored to Lord Muskerry (MacCarthy's). Admiral William Penn in turn, was granted Shanagarry Castle (near Middleton east Cork) in exchange for Macroom Castle. The river Sullane flows quietly beneath the walls of the castle. To this castle Admiral Penn invited Thomas Loe when his son William was twelve or thirteen years old. Here William listened to the man who ten years later, in the nearby city of Cork, was to finally convince him of the way of life of Friends He had intense religious experience, he became skilled in the administration of property and he had intolerance to religious and racial inequality. Macroom is proud to be associated with playing its part in the great man's life. "I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again."
William Penn 1644 – 1718
William Penn was born during the Civil War near Tower Hill, London, on 14th October 1644. His father was Vice-Admiral Sir William Penn, a great sea-captain, who was a friend of King Charles II and his younger brother the Duke of York, later to become James II. During Oliver Cromwell's Protectorate William Penn senior was made an Admiral and was granted Shannagarry estate in Ireland. After an unsuccessful expedition to the West Indies led by Admiral Penn the family moved to Shannagarry. It was here that William Penn met and was greatly influenced by Thomas Loe, who was a Quaker.
At 16 William went up to Christ Church, Oxford. The Church of England was the only accepted form of worship at this time and students were expected to attend services. Penn was increasing drawn to Quakerism, which had been started by George Fox in 1652. He began to organise meetings and to challenge the authorities. In March 1662 he was sent down. His father disapproved, and sent him to France hoping to dispel his rebellious ideas. There Penn enrolled in the Huguenot Academy and was influenced by Moise Amyraut, a strong supporter of religious freedom. On his return to England he commenced law studies which were interrupted by the Great Plague of London. His father sent him to care for the family estates in Ireland. Here he became a convinced Quaker.
In 1668 he was imprisoned for seven months for his religious beliefs. While in prison he wrote No Cross No Crown, one of his most influential books. Around this time he also met Gulielma Springett, daughter of Mary Penington and step daughter of Isaac Penington, both committed Quakers. The Conventicle Act banned public meetings of more than 5 people, in an attempt to suppress all but Anglican worship. In 1670 William Penn and his friend William Mead spoke to a large crowd in London's Gracechurch Street, and were arrested and tried at the Old Bailey. The Penn-Mead Trial has gone down in legal history due to Penn's skilled arguments and the courage of the jury. It set a precedent for the rights of juries to reach independent conclusions and is still referred to today. It is a very important part of Penn's legacy, both in the UK and in the US. In 1672 William and Gulielma married.
William's father had died in 1670. Part of William's inheritance was a crown debt of £16,000 which his father had lent to Charles II, and in 1681 in settlement of this debt he was granted land on the west bank of the Delaware River in the American Colonies. Penn wanted the province to be called Sylvania, but the King insisted on the name Penn being prefixed in memory of his father, so it became Pennsylvania.
He went to America in 1682 and spent two years there establishing the colony. He called it his Holy Experiment because it was to be a place where the Quaker ideals of equality, religious freedom, and open democratic processes could be put into practice in ways that seemed impossible in Europe. He treated the Lenape Indians with great respect and made a treaty with them for the use of their land. Voltaire said of the treaty that it was the only one "not ratified by an oath, and that was never infringed." Penn also drew up a remarkably progressive constitution for Pennsylvania. It served as a model for several other states, and was a key influence on the US constitution drawn up in Philadelphia nearly a century later. Soon after Penn's return to England in 1684, the King died and was succeeded by James II. As a close friend of the new King, Penn did much to further religious freedom. The culmination of this was the 1689 Act of Toleration which enabled Quakers and all other religious groups to worship openly.
In 1694 Gulielma died. Two years later he married Hannah Callowhill, and they went to America in 1699, to live at Pennsbury, near Philadelphia. He had to return to England in 1701 where his health declined and he had financial problems. In 1712 he had a stroke and suffered from loss of memory. He died in 1718 and is buried in the grounds of Jordans Quaker Meeting House in Buckinghamshire. Here William Penn (1644-1718) Quaker Statesman and Man of Vision, Founder of Pennsylvania and Planner of Philadelphia, Friend of the Indians, Crusader for Civil and Religious Liberty, Designer of European Peace, resided for five years after his marriage to Gulielma Maria Springett (1644-1694)
The stone above this tablet from Pennsbury, Pennsylvania, the ancient home of William Penn on the Delaware River, was presented by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission who are the custodians of the property.


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Cougar swimmers close out home schedule with win
In the final home meet of the season, the University of Minnesota, Morris swimming and diving team scored an impressive 128-85 win over visiting University of Wisconsin -River Falls Saturday.
Cougar seniors Jackie Hanson, Melissa Johnson, Kristina Roe, and Jodie Roy all swam their final competition in the UMM pool, and all scored points to help in the win.
Johnson was a three-time winner, setting a career best in her win in the 100-yard back, while also swimming in the winning 200-yard medley and 200-yard freestyle relays.
Johnson went 1:07.15 in the 100 back, bettering her previous mark of 1:07.18 set last season.
She led off a 200 medley relay team that won with a time of 1:59.71, almost 10 seconds ahead of River Falls in second place. Andelee Quast, Kayla Gastecki, and Natalie Reynen joined Johnson on team.
Quast had the highlight of the day, breaking her own record in the 100-yard breaststroke that was just set the night before. She touched the wall in 1:12.93 - going under 1:13.00 for the first career time - and breezed to the win, four seconds ahead of her closest competition.
Reynen led off the 200-yard free relay, with Johnson second, Hanson third and Sara Dens on the anchor, that won with a season-high mark of 1:47.20, five seconds ahead of second place.
Hanson posted a pair of runner-up finishes, helping the Cougars sweep the top two spots in both the 100 and 200-yard freestyles, coming in just behind Dens each time. Dens won the 200 with a 2:06.89, with Hanson behind in second at 2:14.47, and in the 100 Dens won in 57.08, with Hanson touching the wall at 1:00.85.
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There is therefore a significant community of oceanographers and climate modellers studying the Pliocene, many of whom were in Bristol last week for the 2nd Workshop on Pliocene climate, and one of the main points of discussion was the exact value of CO2 for the Pliocene.
|80 top scientists from 12 countries gathered for the 2nd Workshop on Pliocene climate on 9-10 September 2013 at the University of Bristol
Today we published a paper in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A which therefore represents an important contribution to the debate. Several records of Pliocene CO2 do exist, but their low temporal resolution makes interpretation difficult. There has also been some controversy about what these records mean, as some show surprisingly high variability, given what we understand about Pliocene climate.
We sampled a deep ocean core taken by the Ocean Drilling Program in the Carribean Sea. Cores such as this record the ancient envrionment as sediment collects over time like the progressive pages in a book, and by analysing the chemical composition of the layers a history of the Earth System can be discovered. The approach that Badger et al take is to use the carbon isotopic fractionation of photosynthetic algae, which has been shown to vary with atmospheric CO2.
What this study revealed is that atmospheric CO2 was actually quite low, at around 300 ppm for much of the warm period. What was also revealed was that CO2 was relatively stable, in contrast to previous work. This implies that in the Pliocene the Earth must have been quite sensitive to CO2, as small changes in atmospheric CO2 drove changes in climate. The study of Badger et al doesn't explicitly reconstruct climate sensitivity but it does have important implications for future change.
The paper is published in a special volume of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, edited by Bristol scientists Dan Lunt, Rich Pancost, Andy Ridgewell and Harry Elderfield of Cambridge University. The volume is the result of the Warm Climates of the Past – A lesson for the Future? meeting which took place at the Royal Society in October 2011. The volume can be accessed here: http://bit.ly/PTA2001
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Summary: In July of 2010, the Rainforest Alliance launched SustainableTrip.org, a database of sustainable tourism businesses in Latin America and the Caribbean. The site is also available in Spanish as ViajeSostenible.org and in French as VoyageResponsable.org. The goal of SustainableTrip.org is to provide travelers, tour operators, and travel agencies with a comprehensive and trustworthy database of tourism companies that are making an effort to benefit local communities and their surrounding flora and fauna. SustainableTrip.org lists accommodations, tour operators, and other businesses that have been certified by independent sustainable tourism certification programs or verified by the Rainforest Alliance; recommendations from reputable organizations are accepted only in regions or countries that do not have a sustainable tourism certification program or where the Rainforest Alliance verification program is not currently active. Each business's certification, verification, or recommendation is confirmed by site staff before it is added to the database. SustainableTrip.org features a robust search engine and an in-depth profile for each business that includes information about amenities and rates, a description of the area and activities, a Google map of the business's location, photos and videos, and actions that the business is taking to demonstrate sustainability. Interested parties can subscribe to a monthly email newsletter that will include links to new or updated hotel profiles as well as other features. SustainableTrip.org is a key tool to link sustainable tourism businesses with the growing and competitive global tourism market.
Annual budget and donors: $125,000 from the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), Regional.
Principle Accomplishments: Redesigned the Eco-Index of Sustainable Tourism to feature an attractive, user-friendly design, a French version of the site, and a more powerful content management system; migrated more than 200 business profiles from the Eco-Index of Sustainable Tourism to the new database and added new businesses, which include accommodations in Latin America or the Caribbean, receptive tour operators based in Latin America or the Caribbean, and other businesses such as restaurants, excursion operators, and transportation services; established monthly activities including: selecting a business for our "Making A Difference" award, posting news items in "News for the Savvy Traveler," and distributing a Monthly Update email newsletter featuring businesses added or updated during the previous month; launched a campaign to promote the site to travelers, sustainable businesses, sustainable tourism certification programs, tour operators, and travel agents; received press coverage in important markets for Latin America and Caribbean tourism; signed an MOU with Travelocity's "Travel for Good" section; developed a "Destinations" section that features general information about the natural and cultural attractions of each country covered by the SustainableTrip.org database.
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Anyone trying to reduce the prevalence of abortion and to impose legal restrictions on it is up against some very powerful social forces and trends, and Jeff Hart is right to point that out–even if he neglects the forces working in our favor. He has offered what he calls a "political" analysis; but as Kate points out, polling data (and election results) allow for a considerably more nuanced verdict than his.
So does history. Hart implies that widespread abortion became a social phenomenon only after the 1960s. This is untrue–read, for example, Marvin Olasky's Abortion Rites for a discussion of the prevalence of abortion in the middle decades of the nineteenth century, and of the largely successful legal campaign to combat it. There was nothing inevitable about the outcome of that campaign back then. If the outcome is inevitable now, it will require more demonstration than Hart has given.
Hart is also quite right about the deliberative nature of American government and about the value of discussion. Would that the courts had not short-circuited the process of deliberation on abortion. But I wonder if Hart's insistence on the value of discussion is in tension with the rest of his analysis, which posits that discussion is pointless because the continuation of abortion on demand is historically inevitable.
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Economist warns rising crude oil price will hit Northern Ireland consumers
The price of crude oil has edged upwards despite world stocks reaching the highest level since before the financial crisis, according to firmus energy.
However, even a slight rise in prices is likely to be felt by consumers in Northern Ireland, one economist has warned.
After falling for three months in a row, the wholesale cost of oil has started to rise again. The firmus energy index rose by 3% in August to stand at 76.
Barclays forecast a climb in the price of Brent crude to around $65 (£41) a barrel as demand comes more into line with supply. However, there is wide consensus that the crude oil price is unlikely to bounce back its pre-recession level.
Paul Stanfield of firmus energy said: "Whatever is driving up the cost of crude, it is not a sudden evaporation of the global oil glut. Opec members Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Iran are all reported to be pumping strongly. While growth in US production has halted, it has not gone into a sharp reverse."
The oil price has been highly volatile and in the past 18 months has dropped from just over $100 a barrel (£64) to below $50 a barrel (£32).
The recent recovery was far from broadly based with the price of gas, coal and power all dropping last month. However, their decline was offset by a 6% increase in the price of oil, the dominant element within the index. Some observers believe the slight turnaround has been caused by nervous hedge funds unwinding bets on oil's continuing decline.
Royal Dutch Shell chief executive Ben van Beurden told the BBC the market was currently volatile and a sudden increase in prices was hard to foresee.
Neil Gibson, Ulster University economist, explained that oil producers no longer had the incentive to push prices up.
He said: "When oil prices go up it drives technologies like solar power and electric cars and that's not a world that oil producers want to be in."
Professor Gibson highlighted that even a slight sustained rise in oil prices would be felt by consumers in Northern Ireland.
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There are many motives for mergers: to minimize competition; to reduce costs by elimination overlapping operations; to acquire a hot product or technology; to enter new geographic markets; or to get bigger. But the popularity of M&A actually involves economic weakness.
Although buying another company may enhance the acquiring firm's innovation, it does not add much to society's. And society's capacity to innovate is crucial. It generates the wealth needed to raise incomes and dampen social conflicts.
The recent reductions in forecast growth imply a dimmer outlook for innovation, as measured by labor productivity. Weaker productivity growth in turn means weaker wage and income growth.
Productivity's performance since the Great Recession has been abysmal. From 2009 to 2014, it has averaged a meager 0.9 percent annually. That is less than half the average growth of 2 percent since the late 1940s and one-third of the 3 percent rate of the first two decades after World War II. These differences have huge implications for wages and incomes. At 3 percent, incomes double in about 25 years; at 2 percent, about 35 years and at 1 percent, around 70 years.
Productivity occurs primarily through the private sector. If companies are hidebound, productivity will suffer. Evidence suggests that entrepreneurship is in decline and that U.S. firms are becoming older, more entrenched and less dynamic.
- Start-ups fell from 15 percent of all businesses in 1978 to 8 percent in 2011.
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At the core of the Afghan imbroglio is the question of who should rule Afghanistan. The answer to this question is as mysterious as it is certain. The simple and straightforward answer is that the Afghans should decide who gets to rule them.
This would certainly be an ideal solution but it is based on many ifs and buts. The Taliban want the US to withdraw its forces and stay neutral about the formation and nature of government in Afghanistan. They are convinced that they have the right to rule Afghanistan for two reasons.
One, the incumbent government of Ashraf Ghani, notwithstanding its democratic façade, is believed to have been actually installed by the US and is, therefore, illegitimate. It does not truly represent the values of a predominantly tribal and conservative society in Afghanistan.
Two, the Taliban assert that they were in charge of Afghanistan when the US invaded and dislodged their government in 2001 and restoring them back to the throne is a matter of principle.
The US wants a modern secular government in Afghanistan, one that protects and promotes the US's strategic and economic interests in the region and gives it a face-saving for exit from Afghanistan. The Americans cannot afford to go back to square one after investing billions of dollars in the war in Afghanistan.
Before any investment decision, one surely tends to think about the safety of investment (SoI) and return on investment (RoI). Although the US has almost lost the war in Afghanistan, it would never allow a Taliban-led government which would be construed as its worst defeat after the Vietnam War.
The much underestimated Indian factor in bringing lasting peace in Afghanistan has largely been ignored. The presence of India in Afghanistan is viewed with suspicion in Pakistan. India wants to encircle Pakistan from all sides. India's deep involvement in Afghanistan in terms of building infrastructure, military and intelligence cooperation and media control has led to a worried Pakistani state.
Strategically, Pakistan cannot allow India to use the land and people of Afghanistan for subversive activities in Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. It is inconceivable to expect us to lend support to any initiative for peace and stability in Afghanistan at the cost of our own security.
What are the cards the players play with and who has so far outsmarted all others?
The Taliban, despite all odds, seem to be sitting in the driving seat. They derive their strength from religion-based ideology and guerrilla war strategy. They have not only withstood years of sustained attacks by the US-led allied forces but have also entrenched their hold over time.
Although they have lost some key leaders, most recently Mullah Mansour, the movement is intact as is its organisational structure. Peace in Afghanistan, therefore, will remain elusive without the Taliban on board.
The US plays with three different cards to achieve its objectives. It extends military, political, and economic support to the incumbent Afghan government with the hope that the people of Afghanistan would ultimately renounce the Taliban. Second, the US tightens the screw on Pakistan now and then in order to deter it from supporting the Taliban in Afghanistan. And most importantly, it continues to pursue the top leadership of the Taliban in Pakistan to create an atmosphere of distrust between Pakistan and the Afghan Taliban.
India and the Afghan government have now jointly started subversive activities. The recent arrest of Indian and Afghan intelligence agents makes it clear that India's growing relations with Afghanistan are aimed at destabilising Pakistan. It is in this context that the CPEC means something more than just an economic corridor.
On its part, India tries to kill two birds with one stone. Creating and sustaining instability in Pakistan is part of India's strategic plans.
To counter India in Afghanistan, Pakistan continues to resist any temptation to put pressure on the Afghan Taliban. By alienating the Taliban, Pakistan believes it will be in a difficult position. It has already paid a heavy price for sharing intelligence and providing logistical support to the US. As part of its strategic calculations, Pakistan continues to pretend ignorance and incompetence in matters deemed dangerous for the Taliban.
Given the divergence of interests and deep involvement of India, peace in Afghanistan has now become a difficult project to accomplish. The Afghan-led and Afghan-owned peace process is just a window-dressing and a contradiction in terms. Is it not naive to think that with so much at stake, all the players will remain neutral?
Because of its geographical proximity and porous border, Pakistan in particular cannot remain indifferent to developments in Afghanistan. The US needs to address Pakistan's critical concerns to bring peace to Afghanistan rather than complicating the situation by bringing India into the gambit.
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office had heard concerns about former Rep. Eric Massa (D-N.Y.) as far back as October, according to reports.
The official House ethics committee investigation into sexual harassment allegations against Massa is over, now that he has resigned. Republicans, however, may press for more inquiry into how Democratic leadership handled reports of Massa's alleged misconduct.
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House GOP leaders met yesterday to discuss what actions to take with respect to the Massa allegations. The party may ask for the ethics committee to restart its investigation. In 2006, the committee decided to investigate the sexual harassment charges against former Rep. Mark Foley (R-Fla.) even after he had resigned from Congress, Republicans point out.
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