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Monday, October 19, 2009

Stop Presses: Mubarak Graying?

Egyptian blogger Zenobia has the picture of the day: the first evidence that Husni Mubarak, a mere lad of 81, is starting to gray at the temples!

I think it's just a trick of the lighting, or else he left the shoe polish at home.

See here to compare Mubarak's hair coloring with Barack Obama's (maybe he figured a little gray in the temples would make him more like Obama?) or here with Bob Gates.

As I've suggested before, this may just be sour grapes on my part: I'm 20 years younger than he is, and completely white haired.

Only his hairdresser knows for sure.

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