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Berlusconi says he has done nothing wrong and is simply a victim of a hate-filled press and opposition that want to bring him down with "trash" and "gossip." It's possible, if the investigation into the prostitution allegations came to any embarrassing conclusions, that Berlusconi might have to step down, opening the way for a caretaker government headed by someone like Bank of Italy Governor Mario Draghi or Economy Minister Giulio Tremonti. But don't count Berlusconi out yet. Perennial challengers like parliament Speaker Gianfranco Fini on the right and former Prime Minister Massimo D'Alema...
...personal, against a backdrop of "live and let live." Washington combat has an impersonal cruelty to it, reflected in a maxim of the strategist Lee Atwater: "Never kick a man when he's up." As Barnes and Kristol began feeding Palin's name into the swirl of Washington gossip known as the Great Mentioner, they might have overestimated how ready she was for battle in the big time...
...announced as McCain's running mate, the day "the distractions," as she calls them, "ramped up." They ranged from the bizarre - a blogger's campaign to prove that Palin faked her last pregnancy (she didn't) - to the humiliating. The National Enquirer sent four reporters to Alaska, hoovering up gossip about drug use by her older children and long-ago marital infidelity. Despite rave reviews for her Republican National Convention speech, Palin soon became the target of late-night comics and snarky columnists. The obvious pleasure she took in her attacks on the Democrats made it hard to feel sorry...
Brian Oxman, a former attorney for the family, believes that Jackson's use of medications was "extensive" and that the people who surrounded him were "enabling him," encouraging his reported drug dependence. A family member told the celebrity gossip website TMZ.com that Jackson had been receiving daily injections of Demerol, a narcotic painkiller...
...results were coming in of Barack Obama's election victory. But as damning as the news may appear, it is still too early to predict the demise of the billionaire TV tycoon, who rose to power in 1994 with an often disorientating formula of government, gossip, over-the-top charm and expansive media influence...