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Their middle relief is a mess, ravaged by injuries and plagued by baffling underperformance from those who remain.

“All of our programs are a mess, to be honest,” Navy Secretary John Phelan told Congress this summer.

With the structure a mess from new hiring and shifting responsibilities, Meta moved this week to make more sense of it all.

The good news is that the administration doesn’t want to mess with seniors, especially in the run-up to the crucial midterms.

What he is referring to is the way that the British author, who published most of these works in mass-market magazines in the 1950s and 1960s, deliberately messes with her readers’ minds.