a question everyone is asking. they say "this a middle eastern epic, one of those incremental moments when the arab people, forgotten, chastised, infantlized, repressed, often beaten, tortured too many times, occasionally hanged, will strive to give the great wheel of history a shove and shake off the burdens of their lives." a paper at the united arab emirates, "mubarak stays and army faces test of stability." saying "this is an unprecedented test of all of egypt's institutions. how they perform will be remembered by all egyptians." as we mentioned there, "the new york times" has an opinion piece by an egyptian opposition figure, mohamed elbaradei, writing, "egypt will not wait forever on this caricature of a leader. death to the voice of the -- deaf on to the voice of the people, hanging on obsessively