He was a prophet, if not The Prophet, and he most definitely was not the Son of God nor did he have any form of divine status.

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Nor is Mr Kerry a son of the soil or toil.

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Nor does he share the post-ideological certainties of his son, a demographer who published a prescient book on the coming fall of the Soviet Union in 1976, the year of Malraux's death.

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Opposition parties have made more explicit demands for reforms, including the dissolution of the parliament installed in December after elections widely condemned as fraudulent, the holding of new elections, and a declaration from Mr Mubarak that neither he nor his son will run for president in the elections scheduled for September.

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