That's what the frenzied celebration — no, the sheer pandemonium — looked and felt like here Friday night when President Hosni Mubarak finally stepped down after three decades of autocratic rule.
That's when Bing decided to park himself in the hot seat, winning a special election after disgraced Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick stepped down under charges of perjury and obstruction of justice.
His heart beat with eager anticipation, then stopped with a sinking thud. Not Ingrid, but her older sister Marta, stepped down from the train.
The new prime minister will be the sixth since Junichiro Koizumi—the last with either charisma or authority—stepped down in 2006.
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