Mr Brooks recounts a survey of diplomats who failed to pay parking fines in New York.

布鲁克斯详细地讲述了一项关于外交官的调查，在纽约的这些外交官未能支付停车罚款。

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“Thousands of miles away from home,” Mr Brooks writes, “diplomats still carried their domestic cultural norms inside their heads.”

“离家数千里，”布鲁克斯写到，“外交官们依然保持着他们的本土的文化准则，牢记于心。”

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Mr. BROOKS: I noticed from the beginning that my eyes would burn, and that I would cough a lot using the product.

布鲁斯：自从我使用该产品开始，我的眼睛就感觉灼烧，不停咳嗽。

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Mr Brooks had been a self-made man, raised on a hardscrabble tobacco farm in South Carolina.

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But both Mr Brooks's subtle approach and Mr Gingrich's unsubtle one suffer from a shared weakness.

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Which leads on to Mr Brooks's most controversial finding: in America, conservatives are happier than liberals.

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