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ALEX BEAM

The politics of hair

Campaigns talk unemployment and national security, but what candidates really care about is hair

By Alex Beam

 |  Globe Columnist  

  December 02, 2011

Political journalists from the Globe, The New York Times, the New Republic and everywhere else just can’t keep their hands out of Mitt Romney’s hair. Nor should they. “Hair matters,’’ Hillary Clinton once told an audience of Yale students. “Pay attention to your hair, because everyone else will.’’ And she should know.

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