There is more than a bit of farcicality to Egypt's predicament. This was well displayed in a recent newspaper headline: "Mubarak Dead and Alive, Shafiq and Morsi President". The words referred to firm official reports, later firmly denied, that Egypt's 84-year-old ousted president, Hosni Mubarak, had died on June 19th, and to vehement, rival claims of victory in the presidential elections held on June 17th, given the peculiarly lingering absence, several days later, of an official count.
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