We'll find out in about 15 minutes.
The crowds at both Cairo and Alexandria are jubilant; they think/hope a victory for the people is at hand. I'd hate to see how the next steps play out if Mubarak continues to maintain his regime but under a facade of reform.
If power isn't ceded by Mubarak and his regime, I fear that it's only a matter of time before there is a move to wrest it from them.
They have reached a point of no return.
Mubarak assumed presidential office at around the same time Reagan did. It's time for his government to be dissolved.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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