SINGAPORE - Early this month, former British prime minister Tony Blair appeared on a television interview with a jarringly long hairstyle. Some called it a grey mullet, others saw in his shagginess a man fighting the brutal ravages of time - and losing.
The news pictures did not do him any favours. He seemed a little scary. The beady intensity of his gaze from under thinning silver locks made him look like an angry shaman.
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