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Dissatisfied with Italy's economic woes, voters on April 14 elected billionaire Silvio Berlusconi, Italy's richest man, to lead them once again. Here's a quick look back at the ups and downs of one of the world's most colorful--and persistent--personalities...
...APRIL 1996 The conservative sports and media mogul--he controls Italy's most successful soccer club and some of its largest television stations--runs for re-election. He loses...
...APRIL 2006 He loses re-election after leading Italy's longest-serving postwar government...
...APRIL 2008 Berlusconi wins his third term as Prime Minister. He vows to rescue the stalled Italian economy, resolve a garbage crisis and assist the faltering national airline, Alitalia...
...There was no evidence of illegal activity nor an offense in plain view.' SHERIFF DAVID DORAN, of Schleicher County, Texas, on why authorities waited until April 3 to investigate a polygamist sect's compound in the desert outside Eldorado...