Word: berlusconi
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...Merkel wait on the red carpet while he spoke on his cell phone. Then there was his private life: his wife of 20 years filing for divorce; her accusations that he "frequents underage females"; a Bari prostitute revealing details of several encounters at his Rome residence.(Read "Hoq Silvio Berlusconi Uses Women...
...Berlusconi's judicial woes were reignited when Italy's highest court ruled unconstitutional the law he'd pushed through Parliament to grant himself immunity from prosecution while in office. The high-point of his leadership in 2009 - his prompt response to the tragic earthquake near the city of L'Aquila - was not the sort of thing to gloat about. (But he did anyway...
Although getting smashed in the face after a highly charged rally in Milan seemed to crown this annus horribilis, Berlusconi has called in to several television and radio programs since to declare his determination to come back stronger than ever...
...accused attacker, Tartaglia, 42, who is being held in a Milan prison on charges of aggravated assault, Berlusconi said he forgives him "on a human level," but asked that the courts "make an example of him" for having targeted the country's leader...
Television and film writer Luca Martera is by no means among those who approve of Tartaglia's actions. But he's no fan of his Prime Minister either, whom he blames for keeping Italy stuck in its culture of corruption and compromise. "The attack of Berlusconi was tragicomical, like his entire personal story," says Martera. "The blood on his face was dramatic. But from a symbolic point of view, it's a bit hard to take too seriously an attack where the weapon is a miniature replica of the Duomo...