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Silvio Berlusconi's legal troubles
Mr A or Mr B?

The strange case of David Mills
Feb 23rd 2006
From The Economist print edition

I KEPT in close touch with the B people...they also knew quite how much the way in which I had been able to give my evidence (I told no lies, but I turned some very tricky corners, to put it mildly) had kept Mr B out of a great deal of trouble...I was told I would receive money...$600,000 would be put in a hedge fund...For obvious reasons...it needed to be done discreetly. (And it was: by way of a Swiss bank account of a company in the British Virgin Islands.) …


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Italy's election
Antics and buffoonery

Trouble about a T-shirt
Feb 23rd 2006
From The Economist print edition

IT HAS always been hard to find a single word to describe the Northern League. Regionalist at times, separatist at others; liberal in theory, protectionist in practice; often populist, certainly anti-immigrant, it has also shaped itself as the party of cultural confrontation. Leaguers are among the keenest admirers of Oriana Fallaci, a writer who says that Muslim immigration is turning Europe into Eurabia.…


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