Beside him was Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, who has a beard and whose wife is always conservatively attired.

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BM, who has a grey beard and was dressed for the hearing in a white shirt, cannot be named nor have his address published for legal reasons.

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It now boasts four offices around the world, celebrity endorsements from rapper Snoop Dogg, who has been sporting a beard of late, and lightly whiskered pop star Justin Bieber.

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Abu Rakaan, who wears a dark suit and has a close-cropped beard, looks like an accountant.

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Hasan, who is still considered a soldier, is a practicing Muslim and maintains he has the right to wear the beard under U.S. laws protecting religious freedoms.

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"The U.S. has the best chance to win the most medals by far, " says Olsen, who sports a Garibaldi-style beard and helped organize the 2003 Carson City and 2009 Anchorage world championships.

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"Unlike Greenspan, Bernanke has a beard, so you can't see his whole face, " says Erin Crowe , who has painted more than 50 larger-than-life images of the Fed chairman, several of which can be currently seen at her "Goodbye Greenspan" exhibit at the Broome Street Gallery in downtown Manhattan.

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