Gone. (Getty Images)
I've rarely updated an Arab stateman's profile with as much relish as I just did Hosni Mubarak's, changing his status as president of Egypt to the past tense. It had slipped my mind that when I'd originally written that profile, about a year or so ago, I'd described his iron grip on Egyptian society as providing "the ingredients of revolution." Here's the updated profile of Hosni Mubarak, inheritor of the Arab World's happiest past tense. Enough said.
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