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Girls! Girls! Girls!

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Silvio Berlusconi, the seventy-two-year-old Italian Prime Minister, is no stranger to scandal. Having survived some seventeen criminal trials without ultimately being convicted, he has inured the Italian public to feelings of shock or indignation. Last January, the prosecutor's office in Naples indicted Berlusconi and issued a report containing extracts of more than a thousand wiretapped conversations depicting Italy's state TV network, RAI, as a casting couch that Berlusconi used to grant favors to aspiring actresses--he called them "le fanciulle mie" ("my girls")--and to try to bring down the government. The report had no impact. In the national elections in the spring, ...

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