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Berlusconi's rule was marked by a football match-fixing scandal, a brazen attempt by the former governor of Italy's Central Bank to stop foreign banks buying Italian banks, a multibillion-euro fraud at the Parmalat food company, and amnesties for those doing illegal construction work.
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Silvio's Gone: Is Italy Missing Him?
It is 8am on a magnificently sunny Tuesday, and out in the Roman Campagna I have a choice of traffic jam. To my right, a long line of motionless vehicles stretches down the Via Ardeatina and past the Sanctuary of the Madonna of Divine Love, a religious shrine whose evergreen popularity belies the notion that Italian Christianity is in decline.
To my left, an even longer line of cars and trucks extends past Rome's ring road and snakes forward, as I will...See the full content of this document
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