Mr Mubarak may be trying to avert just such a threat by grooming his modern-minded son, Gamal, as his successor.

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There, they discussed strategy, as well as Benjamin Graham, a favorite son of Columbia and a founding father of modern investing.

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Now the village has a name for his grown-up son, who's rather more versed in the modern age - Technical Pen.

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