Word: embassiesã
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...even if you don’t think of the Foreign Service as some kind of surrogate parent, most of us imagine that our national embassies??€”bomb targets as they are—are at least shelters, dispensers of information and help centers. Until you have cause to visit one such haven, it’s hard to realize quite how absurd this illusion is. Helping national citizens is, of course but a small part of embassy duties; they are mostly occupied with far more significant matters: negotiating trade disputes, schmoozing local bigwigs, putting on cultural shows...
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