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...which he claimed were part of a campaign aimed at his conservative government by leftist magistrates. The Prime Minister contended that his companies never attempted bribery but were victims of corrupt tax inspectors who had extorted money in exchange for favorable tax audits. Although the judicial notification implied no guilt, Berlusconi found himself directly caught up in the debate over the apparent conflict of interest between being Prime Minister and holding onto control of Fininvest, a $7 billion-a-year conglomerate that dominates the Italian media. Belatedly, the Prime Minister said he was ready to make a public offering...
...consolidate it. As the generations follow one another, the founder's energy dissipates, like gases flung out from a star. Heirs proliferate. They squabble. Trust funds thin out. Distant cousins go for one another's throats. By the fourth or fifth generation, they are turning up with guilt complexes about the family name and about the founder's long-ago crimes of piracy. Some take to drugs, others to environmentalism. Some heir will tithe his trust fund to a cult. An heiress will be arrested in Saks for shoplifting. Some of the cousins will embrace penitential political correctness, the noblesse...
...They resemblehanging judges, and sometimes they must feel uneasy about their power over life and death, love and loneliness. Perhaps that is what prodded Polish director Krzysztof Kieslowski and his writing collaborator, Krzysztof Piesiewicz (himself a lawyer), to create Three Colors: Red, a movie about a judge racked by guilt, regret and his need to keep eavesdropping on other people's crimes and pain...
...Coetzee's darkly convincing narration, Dostoyevsky hears that his 21- year-old stepson Pavel Isaev, who has fallen in with nihilists in Petersburg, has been murdered, perhaps by the police or by his comrades. The writer travels to Petersburg, finds the rooming house where Pavel had lived and -- guilt-haunted because he did not get along well with this difficult son of his dead first wife -- moodily retraces the young man's last months. He tries to retrieve Pavel's papers from the police and is subjected to repeated, insinuating interrogations. He encounters a deadly, contemptuous young nihilist named Nechaev...
Some might call this strategy exploitative of ethnicity in an evil, careerist way. But is it any less exploitative of identity and guilt than radical minority politics? Certainly it doesn't necessarily conflict with a sincere dedication to advancing minority interests. If you can empower your community and yourself at the same time, more power...