PHARAOH'S LONG SHADOW

摘要

Just a few days ago, Egypt looked as if it might be edging toward greater economic, social and political freedoms-no mean achievement in a country older than the Sphinx, and just about as firmly stuck in the dust of its past. At the end of January, several cabinet members and Gamal Mubarak, the charismatic son of the president, were giving polished spiels to potential investors and the power elite in the snow-covered village of Davos, Switzerland.