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A thing William Wellman took note of during the filming of "Public Enemy", and had Cagney and the Lew Ayres clone "switch roles"...because "this Cagney guy has that gutter quality that this story needs to become effective".

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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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