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Opposites Attract.(Italian politics)(Romano Prodi and Silvio Berlusconi)
They call him "La Mortadella," after the pink, bland sausage from his hometown of Bologna. As prime minister, Romano Prodi preferred commuter trains to limos and famously ran his 1996 election campaign out of a secondhand schoolbus that he often drove himself. And now? He's president of the stodgy European Commission, the citadel of rules, red tape and "Eurocracy." Snore.
Contrast this to the man he beat--Italy's current P.M., Silvio Berlusconi, who travels in a fleet of chauffeur-driven luxury cars and buzzes around Europe in a private jet. No matter what he does--from insulting German tourists to rewriting Italian law to his personal benefit--Berlusconi ...
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