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Yet last year, when Donald Trump was president, America struck a deal with the Taliban. Mr Trump wanted a quick end to the 20-year deployment, and Joe Biden has stuck by that callous decision.

Adolf Hitler was a German politician and leader of the Nazi Party. He rose to power as the chancellor of Germany in 1933 and then as Führer in 1934. During his dictatorship from 1933 to 1945, he initiated World War II in Europe by invading ...

Charlie Chaplin’s portrait of Adenoid Hynkel, the preening, callous dictator of the title, is a masterpiece of bitter parody

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Watching “The Great Dictator” today is to see satire realise its own limits—and transcend them

Eighty years ago, Charlie Chaplin made his first “talkie” and 

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They have good reason to be shy - thousands are killed each year for their casques, shot by hunters who sell the heads to China.

Between 2012 and 2014, 1,111 were confiscated from smugglers in Indonesia's West Kalimantan province alone. Hornbill researcher, Yokyok Hadiprakarsa, estimates that about 6,000 of the birds are killed each year in East Asia.

The casque, for which hunters are willing to risk arrest and imprisonment, is sometimes referred to as "ivory". It's a beautiful material to carve, smooth and silky to the touch, with a golden-yellow hue, coloured by secretions from the preen gland - most birds use their heads to rub protective oils from this gland over their feathers, legs and feet.

Former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, left, and IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who formally resigned on May 18, 2011

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By Nancy Gibbs

From the alleged attempted rape by Dominique Strauss-Kahn to Arnold Schwarzenegger's fathering a child out of wedlock, what is it about power that makes men crazy?



The macho's penchant for preening, bragging, overt sexuality and misogyny rate highly on the scale of attributes that turn people off. The survey showed that showing-off received 81 percent in the hate-stakes, followed by 74 percent for arrogance, 65 percent for the macho's treatment of women and 63 percent for male pride.



The amount Brazilian women spend on primping has been growing strongly for years and now matches British women's spending per person, though their disposable incomes are far lower. Soon Brazil will overtake Japan to become the second-biggest market for beauty products overall, after the United States http://econ.st/1h7jCrH




Smoke and Fire: Why France Was Silent About Strauss-Kahn's Womanizing
By Bruce Crumley / Paris


If Dominique Strauss-Kahn's reputation for womanizing always seemed to precede him, why wasn't more made of it in his home country?
By Bruce Crumley / Paris


If Dominique Strauss-Kahn's reputation for womanizing always seemed to precede him, why wasn't more made of it in his home country?

1a : being hardened and thickened. b : having calluses callous hands. 2a : feeling no emotion. b : feeling or showing no sympathy for others : hard-hearted a callous indifference to suffering.

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casque

kɑːsk/

noun

1. 1.

   historical

   a helmet.
2. 2.

   ZOOLOGY

   a helmet-like structure, such as that on the bill of a hornbill or the head of a cassowary.

1. [名]
2. 1 《歴史》儀式用かぶと.
3. 2 《動物》（ヒクイドリなどの）かぶと状の頭部突起.

preen

(verb) To dress or groom (oneself) with elaborate care.

Synonyms:  dress, plume, primp

Usage:

He preened in front of the mirror for a half an hour before leaving to meet his date.


━━ v. （鳥がくちばしで）（羽を）整える; 身づくろいをする; ((〜 oneselfで)) 鼻にかける ((on)).


primp

Syllabification: (primp)

Pronunciation: /primp/


verb [with object]

spend time making minor adjustments to (one’s hair, makeup, or clothes):they primped his hair [no object]:the girls who were primping in front of the mirror



Origin:

late 16th century: related to prim