Mr Meles's officials, most of them still working in gloomy Soviet-built offices, often sound almost paranoid in their sensitivity to criticism.

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That inspired a huge shift in my content, with higher standards, and an almost paranoid awareness of every single line of appropriateness out there.

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You're constantly almost paranoid.

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