Immaculate in a suit, he sat in a student chair facing the class board while clutching onto a blackberry and gazing into a laptop.

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Recently it was revealed that former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak had his name woven into the pinstripes of his immaculate suits, a sartorial touch that has probably endeared him even less to the people who have stripped him of power and put him on trial.

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And Mr Newby cut such a figure, handsome in immaculate safari suits and, in London, a trilby hat.

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