After a tiff with him over a lost key in 2004, Parvinder, just 11 years old, decided he'd had enough.
But it highlights the real risks in a diplomatic quarrel that is usually seen as somewhere on the spectrum between amusing, embarrassing and mildly alarming like watching a dinner-party tiff as it threatens to turn into fisticuffs.
As a condition of its life-saving loan, the IMF insisted that the government clean up the banking sector and speed up privatisation to lure foreign investment once more.It is the government's slow progress on both these fronts since November, rather than the tiff between Messrs Ecevit and Sezer, that has given investors pause once more.
IT WAS a surprise even for those used to the rough and tumble of the beautiful game when a tiff between Sepp Blatter and Michel Zen-Ruffinen, president and general secretary respectively of FIFA, soccer's highest international body, exploded into a verbal brawl at a recent meeting of its executive committee.
But there is more to their tiff than that.
New guard, old guard Basescu v Ponta, continued In a momentous tiff Berrypickers, unite!
This week has seen a tiff over a shipload of explosives bound for Sudan, five al-Qaeda suspects collared in Malawi, four men charged for their alleged role in a suicide attack in Kenya, and a ban on flights between Kenya and Somalia, for fear that terrorists lurking in the latter might infiltrate the former.It sounds as if Osama bin Laden's platoons were furiously active in Africa.
AIG's accounting lesson Unusually clear Fair's fair Dutch auction Rich pickings Transatlantic tiff Cashing in A modest undertaking ReprintsGoing back over four years, Mr Schiff concluded that AIG has been able to improve the appearance of its profits growth in 19 out of the past 20 announcements, by shifting the emphasis in its presentation of results between four different measures of profits.
A NEW piece posted at Banyan, one of our sister blogs, details the latest tiff to flare up over conflicting claims in the South China Sea.
A compelling passage in the book spells out just how a minor maritime tiff could swiftly get out of hand.Another argument against an accommodation with China is that its rise cannot continue at the pace seen in the past 33 years, and that, once its economy falters, its political system could also look shaky.
Did he act out of rage after a tiff, or in fear of an intruder, whom he said he heard in the dark?Interest in the case goes far beyond Mr Pistorius's guilt or innocence.
