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But as always, the plots are there almost as a pretext to spend time with the characters, and the whole cast is good company.

And, are those reasons legitimate, or just a pretext for punishing Harvard for constitutionally protected speech the administration dislikes?

In response to the deportations report, Libyan Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh wrote in a statement on X that his country refused "to be a destination for the deportation of migrants under any pretext."

Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani has also warned that "any call for external intervention, under any pretext or slogan, only leads to further deterioration and division".

Tarar said that India intends to use the attack as a "false pretext" for a strike and that "any such military adventurism by India would be responded to assuredly and decisively".