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"I'm walking down the hallway from mess and I'm getting approached by everybody selling everything.
Somehow, he's become an unpopular governor careering from mess to mess.
This is a war where traditional military jobs, from mess hall cooks to base guards and convoy drivers, have increasingly been shifted to the private sector.
Moving from mess to mess, the aid workers in their white Land Cruisers manage to take credit without accepting blame, as though humanitarianism were its own alibi.
Finally, Gourevitch describes aid workers moving from mess to mess without accepting blame, and asks how humanitarian workers can so readily deflect accountability for the negative consequences of their actions.
He was a logical choice for the prison project: aggressive, resourceful, patriotic, ready to dispense a favor; some inside the C.I.A. jokingly compared him to Milo Minderbinder, the fictional character who rose from mess hall officer to the black-market magnate of Joseph Heller's World War II novel "Catch-22".
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Can I stop it from messing up my hair?
For one thing, it keeps them from messing with the local real estate.
They think you're here to mess up, and it's their job to prevent you from messing up.
Moving from theatre to film felt like going from messing about to actual acting.
Erm, how do you get from messed up red blood cells to haemorrhaging?
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