The coalition, elected to a four-year term, marks its third year in office on Monday.
The end of that summer and the start of the new term marked the return to normality.
(Mayawati's Bahujan Samaj Partylost 126 of its 206 assembly seats after a term marked by fantastic corruption and waste).
Pity, because the outgoing prime minister, Atef Ebeid, had endured even more than the usual abuse during a five-year term marked by recession and policy drift.
Yet at every measurable step during their medical education, from term marks to residency, their performance as a group was indistinguishable not just from the rest of their peers but also from the top 50 students in the class.
The current campaign, at the start of President Dmitri Medvedev's term, marks a watershed - the first time the Russians have wielded their guns in anger beyond Russia's borders since the Soviet collapse and the end of the cold war.
He has just been humiliatingly ejected after garnering just 5% of the vote, with his first term marked by a spate of corruption cases, political failures and a broken economy.
Imran Khan, a prominent Pakistani politician, urged Mr. Obama to "give peace a chance" after a first term marked by "increased drone attacks, a surge in Afghanistan, increased militancy in Pakistan as a result of that".
The vote was the first state election since Mrs. Merkel won re-election in the fall, with a second term marked by bickering with the pro-business Free Democrats, the junior party in her ruling coalition.
