Cranes drop Bloomberg in it

Capricious fortune may have caught up with New York's Mayor Bloomberg. For six years the short, brainy, slightly nerdy Mayor has kept the peace while transferring his Midas touch from his own multi-billion dollar business to the City's economy, and New Yorkers have come to love him for it.

He cut the perfect figure for Boris Johnson's first official guest, lending the gaffe-prone new London mayor a measure of credibility. (He even manages to fly his private jet to his homes in London and Bermuda for regular long weekends without being accused of running his city from a Turkish boat.)

In short, Bloomberg was seen by many Americans beyond New York as not only the calm managerial mayor they wished