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the economy, and health care, long live Egypt!). Men pushed over chairs and slammed one another into the walls of the narrow alley to get closer to Moussa and touch his sleeve. The oaths of loyalty felt a tad staged and excessive, but similar displays characterized all the major candidate rallies, and

turned out in even the minutest villages. "He has a special charisma," gushed an English teacher named Ahmed Abdel Lahib, during a pit stop by the Amr Moussa campaign in a Nile Delta hamlet called Mit Fares. "Egypt needs a man like him," he said of the former Arab League secretary-general. EFTA00630288

th their values more of a chance for success than has been allowed by three months of parliamentary machinations under the shadow of the military. Thanassis Cambanis, a columnist at The Boston Globe and a regular contributor to The New York Times, is writing a book about Egypt's revolutionaries. He is a fellow a

the economy, and health care, long live Egypt!). Men pushed over chairs and slammed one another into the walls of the narrow alley to get closer to Moussa and touch his sleeve. The oaths of loyalty felt a tad staged and excessive, but similar displays characterized all the major candidate rallies, and

st Moussa. The nephew, 37-year- old Ahmed Burma, smiled benevolently. "My uncle jumped on the revolutionary bandwagon," he said. "But I'm supporting Amr Moussa. I run a business with 90 employees. Let's give this guy a chance to work." Still, the polls and predictions are little more than guesswork. Most

th their values more of a chance for success than has been allowed by three months of parliamentary machinations under the shadow of the military. Thanassis Cambanis, a columnist at The Boston Globe and a regular contributor to The New York Times, is writing a book about Egypt's revolutionaries. He is a fellow a

it. Let's also remember that the Egyptian Army remains a force for secularism. And there's a reasonable chance that a more secular president like Amr Moussa, a former foreign minister and Arab League secretary general, will be elected to balance religious parties in Parliament. Our fears often reflect

ted by self-professed Islamist movements. Fear and expedient coalitions can forestall the rise of the Islamists but they can't put it off forever. Thanassis Cambanis is writing a book about Egypt's revolutionaries. He is a fellow at The Century Foundation, teaches at Columbia University's School of International