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...Five days after the July 7 bombing that killed nearly 60 people, Indian National Security Adviser M.K. Narayanan had claimed India had a "fair amount" of intelligence to prove Pakistan's complicity. There may have been nothing new in New Delhi accusing Islamabad of using jihadist terrorist groups as proxies to strike at India. But Indian intelligence and security experts are unaccustomed to seeing that charge being echoed by Washington, which has embraced Pakistan as a crucial ally in its "war on terrorism" despite concerns over the long-standing relations between the ISI and the Taliban and other extremist groups...
CARLA BRUNI on Vanity Fair cover. Mr. Merkel slighted again...
...pong also has its fair share of enthusiasts - many of them will congregate in Las Vegas in January for the fourth annual World Series of Beer Pong, hosted by the site bpong.com. So despite an increasing number of colleges and towns prohibiting the game, it likely won't fade without a fight...
...than McCain's crowd but still more a part of the past than of the future. They had cleaned up the Reagan-era mess. They had actually balanced the budget and created a surplus. They had - contra voodoo - raised taxes and yet produced an economic boom. There was a fair amount of argument behind closed doors, I'm told, between the two groups that sparred at the dawn of the Clinton era, the deficit hawks and the populists. In the end, though, there was a general agreement on the need for more government activism. Obama isn't even pretending...
...also be fair to Pakistan. If its army moved into the Northwest Frontier Province in force, the odds are good the army as well as the country would crack. All across Pakistan there is grudging sympathy for Pakistan's Taliban, al-Qaeda's host, rebels willing to stand up to the United States. It was not a coincidence that the 9/11 plotters had taken refuge in Pakistan's largest cities, Rawalpindi and Karachi...