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COMMENT A reform-questing politician striving against great odds must allow the worst of what he has to face pass through his soul, as if he is grinding sausage.

With Anwar Ibrahim, now in his third spell of incarceration in a near 50-year political career, the buffer against the shrivelling effects of the grind is reading.

A peripatetic life on the hustings and at endless meetings the last eight years could not have afforded him much time for this solitary pursuit, save perhaps in cars and planes - provided he was not trying to catch up on sleep - that transported him to the events of a hectic and harried schedule.

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