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A later study, of the period 1997 to 2002, found that the number of parking violations per diplomat was strongly correlated with measures of national corruption—and with less favorable popular views of the United States.
Paved Paradise
Henry Grabar
Yet because I knew nothing, nothing was beneath me.
The United States had thus expended nearly three-quarters of a billion dollars’ worth of missiles to kill a dozen or two low-level al-Qaeda members and destroy the factory that made more than half of Sudan’s medicine, including vital antimalarials. Since sanctions against Sudan made importing medicine difficult, this caused an uncounted number of needless deaths—Germany’s ambassador to Sudan guessed “several tens of thousands”—in one of the world’s poorest countries.
How to Hide an Empire
Daniel Immerwahr
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