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Reports out of Egypt indicate that President Hosni Mubarak could go tonight. This is a sudden reversal from a protest movement that was facing long odds just 48 hours ago.

All week, protesters in Tahrir Square in Cairo have watched as their new vice president, Omar Suleiman, went through the motions of "negotiations" with opposition leaders that participants dismissed as inadequate and insincere. They watched as the United States provided quiet consent. President Obama even used the word "progress" to describe the talks in which Suleiman affirmed that President Mubarak would never resign and also insisted there was no need to lift the state of emergency Egyptians have lived under for 30 years under the Mubarak regime.

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