Rather Pakistan seems to be hoping that worries about escalating violence in these potentially fissile times will encourage outsiders to intervene in a dispute that India insists is no one else's business.

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Twenty-year-old twins Leon and Raquel Papu, sophomores at Babson and Tufts University, respectively, have called upon their BCCG concierge to intervene in a landlord dispute, wait for a plumber and line up Boston Celtics tickets.

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"How I would, by some means of telepathy or other magical means, be able to orchestrate, first of all to be able to provoke a dispute - heaven knows how I would even want to, let alone be able to provoke a dispute - and then intervene in it so that when there was a deal it then collapsed, I don't know, " he said.

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For years, the state has been seen as a force ready to intervene in almost any shareholder dispute in order to gain control over an attractive company or a project.

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