It is still worse among nations. Ambassador Neumann, who has just published a memoir of his tenure in Afghanistan, says there are different kinds of corruption and that at least some lower level corruption is to be expected.

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Uriah Parmelee had an inheritance; at what level he exactly understood it I can't necessarily know, although his letters are extraordinarily rich.

乌利亚遗留下了一些东西,他的理解到达了一定层次,而我没有,尽管他的书信内容很丰富

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You might say,the only way to explain the behavior is to say that at some level, he really does believe his hands are dirty, despite the fact that he says they're not.

唯一的解释也许就是，在某种程度上，他确实还是相信自己的手脏的，尽管他说它们不脏。

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