Tony Blair strides back from first class on a chartered flight from Cairo to London, lugging a large, scuffed red leather box of the sort that has held papers for British Cabinet ministers since the days of Gladstone. He is wearing a pair of khakis and a white shirt with the top two buttons undone, revealing a surprisingly buff chest (his aides won't confirm that he pumps iron, just that he plays a lot of tennis). He delivers the box to a secretary and joshes easily with a communications technician. Already this day he has been in Oman and Egypt, where...
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