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Romano Prodi, a former visiting professor at Harvard, defeated billionaire Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi by a close margin in this week’s Italian parliamentary elections...
Prodi, who taught Economics 2364, a course on Italian economic development, in 1974 under the Lauro de Bosis lectureship, captured the election as his center-left party took control of Italy’s two parliamentary houses—the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate...
...billionaire like Silvio Berlusconi is used to wanting, and getting, it all. Even when he has to admit defeat, Berlusconi usually comes away better off than most. So it shouldn't be that surprising that while his days as Italian Prime Minister are now almost certainly numbered, the charismatic media mogul may well emerge from the election, ostensibly won by center left leader Romano Prodi, as what one center-left source called "winning loser." Having made up much ground in the polls in the final weeks, Berlusconi has reaffirmed his own party, Forza Italia, as the single largest political force...
...Italian police say Provenzano, who had been on the run from authorities for four decades, was taken into custody without incident in the rolling hills of central Sicily. According to Italian news reports, he was dressed in jeans and a T-shirt and confirmed his identity shortly after the arrest in a farmhouse outside the town first made famous by the protagonists in the Godfather saga...
...downtown Corleone. Still, mystery will continue to swirl around the battle against the Mob, which has all too often revealed political connections to the criminal organization. Suspicions and perplexity were inevitably multiplied Tuesday by the timing of Provenzano?s arrest, which came in the midst of the hotly disputed Italian national elections. But there are always old and new lessons to be learned about the Mafia-for nothing is ever exactly as it appears, and a dead man can get captured alive...