Though the ex-dictator (whose portrait, above right, is of younger days) is "pretty frail, " says the source, he is nowhere near death.

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But what remains is the portrait of a man who, right up until the end of his life, acted instinctively for what he deemed to be the greater good.

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One of the strangest and for me, most annoying perversions of politics in the Obama era is the meme pursued by so many on the right suggesting that this president is a raging socialist Official photographic portrait of US President...who seeks to install a permanent welfare state in America despite all evidence to the contrary.

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With the intuitive touch screen display, all of the editing is done right from the camera to create a perfect portrait instantly.

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In the lower-right corner, and executed with a far more circumspect touch, a likely portrait of the Marquis de Sade underscores the disturbing import of the apparition above.

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