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Eddie Izzard is more effective than I expected as Chaplin (partly thanks to an excellent hair and makeup job by some talented designer); Joanna Lumley is compelling as novelist Elinor Glyn; and Kirsten Dunst is winning as Marion Davies (though why movies never use her real-life stutter is difficult to explain).

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But they are also very effective in deflecting our path.

Now to make sure that this was no reaction of the fly to a flash it could see, Susana did a simple but brutally effective experiment.

Torture, rape and ethnic cleansing have become highly effective, if often non-lethal, weapons in civil war.

And of course, if you want people to play by the rules, you still need an effective system of monitoring and enforcement, for as we've discovered, you can trust, but you also need to verify.

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