Egad Gamal

If you can't be overtly angry at the father then at least you can subvert the son. That is the current story in Egypt, where iron-fisted monarch (sorry, democratically elected president) Hosni Mubarak is grooming son Gamal to take over in 2011.

Father Mubarak is a strong man in a divided country, having ruled for 28 years in the wake of the assassination of Anwar Sadat. Son Mubarak has the claim to fame of somehow getting into the Top 100  — seemingly for the possibility that he might become Egyptian pres — when Time Magazine considered its 2009 man of the year.

The WD guess: he wins the election and proposes reasonable and necessary reforms which (in a reaction to a bit more freedom than they had during his father's reign) lead his (father's) enemies to spark enough trouble to cost him the country within a year or two.