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Michael J. Good Bye Dave. Have you ever. Quiz Are you a music master? A red-headed bank clerk who flirted with her husband. A young fan who came on stage for her autograph. Her sister. How much more of it could Italian voters take? Wouldn't somebody finally see sense and call a halt, force him up the gangplank of one of his many yachts and cast him adrift? But nobody did. Berlusconi brazened it all out, as he has brazened out so much before. He even succeeded in besting the Catholic church, which takes some doing for an Italian politician.
For Berlusconi and his advisers, the most worrying indication that the sex scandals might be having an effect was the reaction of the Catholic church. La Famiglia Cristiana, the country's most popular weekly, began harrumphing about his morality — a danger sign indeed, since Berlusconi throughout his political career has depended, like all Italy's post-war rulers, on the quiet complicity of the church, which remains in many respects the most powerful force in the land.
Then, even more seriously, L'Avvenire, the daily paper of the Italian Bishops' Association, the mouthpiece of the church hierarchy, began to take the same line. How much longer before The Pope himself stepped in? But Berlusconi, in one of the boldest moves of his political life, called their bluff.
The church has long been aware that, whatever his personal foibles, Berlusconi is the best available protector of their interests among Italy's potential rulers, being always careful to avoid promoting anything, such as rights for gays, living wills or more relaxed rules on abortion or contraception, which might irritate the monsignors.
Now he demonstrated to them that mud, once flung, could always be flung back: Il Giornale, the daily paper known as the Berlusconi house journal and owned by his brother, splashed on claims that the editor of L'Avvenire, Dino Boffo, was a flamboyant homosexual. The man in question denied it heatedly but resigned within days. And from that point, it seems, the heat was off. Six months later I returned to Italy to find the place transformed: the Vatican in disarray over the Boffo affair, Veronica forced onto the back foot as Berlusconi threatens to evict her, and all talk of him being bounced out of power on account of his sexual shenanigans just so much dirty water under the bridge.
The bad news is piling up for him again — on the eve of regional elections, as he points out. The claims that he bribed David Mills to lie to judges about his offshore shell companies will be aired in two different courts next week, and when the case reopens in Milan he has said he will attend, though I wouldn't hold your breath. Meanwhile, trouble has now arrived from a quite different quarter. Guido Bertolaso has been Berlusconi's great discovery since returning to power in A wiry, pensive, perennially scowling figure, the head of Italy's Civil Protection service was the personification of the Prime Minister's promise that he was serious about hacking through the bureaucracy and tackling the country's intractable problems.
It was Bertolaso who stood by Berlusconi's side in Naples two years ago, after the general election, and vowed to clear the city's mountains of rubbish — and did so.
It was Bertolaso who last April accompanied the Prime Minister to the earthquake city of L'Aquila day after day and promised the disaster victims that they would be rehoused and the city rebuilt at top speed and without a whiff of corruption. Berlusconi sold Bertolaso to the public as supremely honest, hard-working, and reliable, the can-do Puritan who would complement the jolly cavalier. And thanks to the Prime Minister's patronage, La Protezione Civile became much the most privileged of the country's emergency services — to the disgust of the others — and was well on the way to being privatised.
Inevitably, Mr Clean wasn't all that he seemed. After bugging Bertolaso's phone and those of a number of his business friends, magistrates in Florence have claimed to have found fistfuls of audio tapes — the juicy transcripts have been filling the Italian newspapers — which allegedly suggest that all the time Bertolaso was in cahoots with sleazy developers who added tens of millions of Euros to their construction bills and repaid Berlusconi's man for his discretion by allegedly laying on a "high-quality" Brazilian prostitute called Monica to service him.
The plan to privatise the service Bertolaso heads is now on hold; the man himself hangs on by the fingernails. But his patron has suffered no discernible damage from the disgrace of his trusty lieutenant. Nobody from the opposition jumps up to challenge his judgement, to demand that the Prime Minister should account for how and why his chosen man was so wildly overpromoted.
Berlusconi has always been passionate about palaces. Back in a diplomat told me that there was no doubt that Berlusconi planned to conclude his political career as President of the Republic. How could we be sure? Because the job comes with a fantastic house, Il Quirinale, the former palace of the pope when the popes ruled half Italy. Berlusconi has long had his eye on it.
At the last count, according to Corriere della Sera, Berlusconi has 27 homes, ranging from grandiose villas to real, regal palaces.
A few days later, his mind turned to property once again. He let it be known that he was fed up with the magnificent Villa San Martino at Arcore, north of Milan, which has been his main base since his lawyer Cesare Previti cajoled its former owner into selling it at a knockdown price 30 years back. Now, it was reported, he wants to get his hands on Villa Belvedere at Macherio, a few kilometres away in the same area of La Braganza.
The significance of this is that Belvedere has been his wife Veronica's main home for decades, the place where she raised their three children.
He is said to be proposing that if she comes down to something more reasonable, he won't send round the bailiffs. God is Great Faith and we got The Faith.
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I love love love The Cult!!! They are my afternoon jam! Thanks for sharing One of rocks hall of fames song to be discovered. Really comforting actually. Grew up in the 80s [fantastic] , 90s was Lotta Life in that decade musically and super great 20s learning of Life for me.
Wouldn't change a second. Still here in ? I just found out about them now in ! Why didnt anyone tell me?! Saw them in Boston 2 weeks ago. They had a small string section for this song. One of my all time favourites Fantastic song, fantastic band That simple Billy is 1 of the best guitarist ever.. So dam underrated. Always said you were a Youthquaker, Edie A stormy little world shaker Warhol's darling queen, Edie An angel with a broken wing. Peter Sutherland.
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