Egypt's embattled President Hosni Mubarak said early Saturday that he had asked his Cabinet to resign, and promised reforms in his first response to protesters who have mounted the biggest challenge ever to his 30-year rule.
Death-bed conversions to the good life aren't always credible, of course. But it doesn't have to be credible to everyone--just to enough people who will declare victory and go home, leaving the smaller number of more determined protesters too weak to overcome the security forces.
