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ace, waving your shoes at the president in the middle of his speech and chanting slogans telling him to leave isn't a victory dance. Moments before, they were singing.
roachboy, those are ominous statements. It will be interesting to see what unfolds tomorrow.
It's also interesting that you should observe how Mubarak talked about himself; just an hour before that, Obama used the Egyptian revolution as a source of inspiration for small-town Americans and job prospects. At least he maintains the position that America will support a transition to democracy. Unfortunately, I'm not sure how much anyone can support something that isn't going to take place.
All of this—it's rather unfortunate.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
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Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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