Weekend Reading: Jeff Spicoli in Tahrir, Brothers vs. Officers, and Revolutionary Accomplishments

Protesters chant slogans against the government and military rulers at Tahrir Square after Friday prayers in Cairo (Amr Dalsh/Courtesy Reuters)

Protesters chant slogans against the government and military rulers at Tahrir Square after Friday prayers in Cairo (Amr Dalsh/Courtesy Reuters)

Anti-government protesters shout slogans during a rally to demand the ouster of Yemen's President Saleh in Sanaa (Khaled Abdullah Ali Al Mahdi/Courtesy Reuters)

An injured anti-government protester rests by a burned out bus, used as barricade, alongside the Egyptian Museum near Tahrir Square in Cairo (Yannis Behrakis/Courtesy Reuters)

Egypt's Prime Minister Essam Sharaf (R) and his Turkey counterpart Tayyip Erdogan walk after a news conference at the Prime Minister's office in Cairo (Mohamed Abd El Ghany/Courtesy Reuters)

New York skyline before September 11, 2001 Attack (Enrique Shore/Courtesy Reuters)

An Israeli protester chats to an ultra-Orthodox Jewish man near tents pitched on Tel Aviv's Rothschild Boulevard as part of a demonstration (Nir Elias/Courtesy Reuters)

Turkey's Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu speaks during a news conference in Ankara (Stringer Turkey/Courtesy Reuters)

An Israeli warship arrives at an Israeli navy base in Eilat (Amir Cohen/Courtesy Reuters)
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