As a rank-and-filer, comparing with proud triumph, I'm not important.

作为一名普通士兵，与辉煌的胜利相比，我并不重要。

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An unremarkable rank-and-filer in a 25-person billing department, he says he cooked the books, under pressure from higher-ups, to help bolster MCI's growth.

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Thus he would arrive on his motorcycle at the grandest houses in the uniform of an RAF rank-and-filer and nurture his friendships with the powerful and famous, including Winston Churchill and George Bernard Shaw.

ECONOMIST: Lawrence of Arabia