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Atlantic, The, April, 2006 by Matthew Quirk
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April 9
Ciao, Silvio?
Silvio Berlusconi, the slick-haired Italian prime minister and George W. Bush ally in the Iraq war, faces a challenge from the center-left in Italy’s general election today. Scandal has mired the tenure of the richest man in Italy (Berlusconi owns much of the Italian media) and hampered his center-right party, Forza Italia, which has rewritten a significant portion of the country’s white-collar fraud laws to stop legal proceedings against the prime minister and his associates. Forza also passed a new electoral law that will soften the blow if the party is voted out. In an effort to convince voters that he is serious about traditional family values, Berlusconi, a former cruise-ship director, has sworn off sex until the election.
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April 15
Pension Overhaul Deadline
Today is the unofficial deadline to shore up the shaky private pension system. ...
