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...Berlusconi's center-right government had pushed through the so-called Lodo Alfano law last year. The law granted immunity for the country's four highest officeholders. The court's decision means the Prime Minister must now face outstanding criminal charges in three corruption cases that are already under way. Most notably, Berlusconi is accused of paying British-born lawyer David Mills to lie on his behalf during an earlier corruption trial. Mills, the husband of Britain's Olympics Minister, Tessa Jowell, has already been convicted in the case. Both Mills, who is appealing the verdict, and Berlusconi, deny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Scandal-Hit Berlusconi Must Face Criminal Charges | 10/8/2009 | See Source »

...think she just wanted to make sure that she wasn’t on a wavelength that was all her own,” said Fine. By then, she said, Alfano had become “sort of a part of our room...

Author: By April H.N. Yee, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Spouse | 10/7/2004 | See Source »

After years of weekends spent scribing sonnets to Alfano, she’ll read a Shakespearean classic that not only typifies their long-distance relationship, but also features her huband’s first name, Mark. That’s 116— “Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments...”—a favorite among the Austen set, having been featured in 1995’s Sense and Sensibility...

Author: By April H.N. Yee, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Spouse | 10/7/2004 | See Source »

...Though Alfano was her first boyfriend, she feels that there’s no chance that she’ll regret her decision to marry early. “It just seemed inevitable,” she says. “I’m not afraid that there’s someone out there who would be more perfect...

Author: By April H.N. Yee, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Spouse | 10/7/2004 | See Source »

Five months from now is a dream she and Alfano have been planning for years. Next year, they hope to be studying in the same city, if not in the same University, earning their Masters’ degrees. Then onto PhDs, teaching jobs, research—children...

Author: By April H.N. Yee, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Spouse | 10/7/2004 | See Source »

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