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    Berlusconi Resigns After Seventeen Years

    ROME — With a combination of savvy media domination, old-fashioned party politics and a salesman’s preternatural charm, Silvio Berlusconi has dominated Italy more than anyone since Mussolini.

    And polarized it. “No one had ever so divided Italy and Italians,” wrote Massimo Gramellini, a columnist for the Turin daily newspaper La Stampa.

    His resignation on Saturday after 17 years as the paramount figure in Italian politics, just over half of them as prime minister, does not erase his presence from the political stage. He still has a powerful political party, now fighting for its future, and owns Italy’s largest private broadcaster. But it marks the symbolic end of an era in which the media baron held the country under his spell.

    http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/13/wo...alians.html?hp

    The end of an era...Houdini escaped time and time again but in the end it was the economy that finally caught up to him.

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    A couple of playas...pimpin aint easy

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    Re: Berlusconi Resigns After Seventeen Years



    Don't worry we gonna have a good time tonight.....




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    I sad day for Italy and a sad day for the world. >
    Whoever criticizes capitalism, while approving immigration, whose working class is its first victim, had better shut up. Whoever criticizes immigration, while remaining silent about capitalism, should do the same.


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    Re: Berlusconi Resigns After Seventeen Years

    Quote Originally Posted by Mister D View Post
    I sad day for Italy and a sad day for the world. >
    I wonder if he feels badly about it or if it's a relief on some level - $#@! is really going to hit the fan in the next couple of years. At least this way he can pursue his hobbies (nailing under-aged hookers) full time. :P

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mister D View Post
    I sad day for Italy and a sad day for the world. >
    I wonder if he feels badly about it or if it's a relief on some level - $#@! is really going to hit the fan in the next couple of years. At least this way he can pursue his hobbies (nailing under-aged hookers) full time. :P
    It's a perk of the office. Everyone knows that. :

    He seems like the kind of who loves power. He's kind of like a swarthy little dago version of Clinton.
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    Re: Berlusconi Resigns After Seventeen Years

    Quote Originally Posted by Mister D View Post
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    I sad day for Italy and a sad day for the world. >
    I wonder if he feels badly about it or if it's a relief on some level - $#@! is really going to hit the fan in the next couple of years. At least this way he can pursue his hobbies (nailing under-aged hookers) full time. :P
    It's a perk of the office. Everyone knows that. :

    He seems like the kind of who loves power. He's kind of like a swarthy little dago version of Clinton.
    Yeah, you're right. There's no doubt he's crushed. Especially after having survived so much else. :'(

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    Re: Berlusconi Resigns After Seventeen Years

    Quote Originally Posted by Conley View Post
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    I sad day for Italy and a sad day for the world. >
    I wonder if he feels badly about it or if it's a relief on some level - $#@! is really going to hit the fan in the next couple of years. At least this way he can pursue his hobbies (nailing under-aged hookers) full time. :P
    It's a perk of the office. Everyone knows that. :

    He seems like the kind of who loves power. He's kind of like a swarthy little dago version of Clinton.
    Yeah, you're right. There's no doubt he's crushed. Especially after having survived so much else. :'(
    He's been there for a while too. He's pretty up there in years though.

    I just looked it up: he was born in 1936. He's 75.

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    Must be the olive oil.
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    Re: Berlusconi Resigns After Seventeen Years

    Quote Originally Posted by Mister D View Post
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mister D View Post
    I sad day for Italy and a sad day for the world. >
    I wonder if he feels badly about it or if it's a relief on some level - $#@! is really going to hit the fan in the next couple of years. At least this way he can pursue his hobbies (nailing under-aged hookers) full time. :P
    It's a perk of the office. Everyone knows that. :

    He seems like the kind of who loves power. He's kind of like a swarthy little dago version of Clinton.
    Yeah, you're right. There's no doubt he's crushed. Especially after having survived so much else. :'(
    He's been there for a while too. He's pretty up there in years though.

    I just looked it up: he was born in 1936. He's 75.
    Yeah, he's been Pimp Minister for 17 years.

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