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Berlusconi's very public divorce

Monday, May 4th, 2009

Silvio Berlusconi has always vaunted two major talents – an ability to control the media (both his own –  a substantial slice of tv and print – as well as those supposedly independent), and a masterful  ability to keep together seemingly shakey partnerships. It’s against this backdrop that his second wife, Veronica Lario, dropped a [...]

Dancing with Demons

Thursday, May 15th, 2008

It was, in a sense, a political exorcism. At least Fabrizio Cicchitto, a leading member of Berlusconi’s Popolo della Libertà  would have had us believe. On the 14th of may, at the first sitting of the newly elected parliament, Cicchitto (who in 1981 admitted to being a member of the Masonic Lodge P2), speaking for [...]