The wilderness campaign : Al Gore -- Mrs. Graham -- The masochism campaign : Tony Blair -- High water -- Into the clear : Philip Roth -- No longer, not yet : Don DeLillo -- Exit the castle : Václav Havel -- The exile : Solzhenitsyn in Vermont -- Deep in the woods : Solzhenitsyn in Moscow -- The last tsar -- The translation wars -- Post-imperial blues : Vladimir Putin -- The afterlife : Natan Sharansky -- The outsider : Benjamin Netanyahu -- Rage and reason : Sari Nusseibeh and the PLO -- The spirit level : Amos Oz -- After Arafat -- The democracy game : Hamas comes to power in Palestine -- Kid dynamite blows up : Mike Tyson -- Cornerman : Teddy Atlas -- Comeback : Larry Holmes -- The moralist : Lennox Lewis -- Tyson's corner.