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...fact say that the media mogul has taken it all too far since first running for office in 1994, staging annual cult-of-personality party conventions and making controversial use of his private television stations to beam a Reaganesque message of smiling conservatism into the living rooms of Italian voters. Still, it has been a recipe for success for Berlusconi, 69, who has been Italy?s longest serving post-War Prime Minister since his election...
...Italian politics is built upon a never-ending supply of ironies. And so it was in the wee hours of Tuesday morning, with Berlusconi in a razor-tight battle for reelection against Romano Prodi, that his center-left opponents used their own familiarity with recent American political history-along with help from Berlusconi?s own TV network-to try to seal their victory, and send the billionaire packing...
...presence on the public stage managed to make up ground in the final weeks after polls had suggested he was headed toward a humiliating defeat. Though he has largely failed to deliver on promises to remake his country's outdated economic system, Berlusconi?s real victory may be that Italian politics-across the spectrum-will never be the same again...
...latest word, just 10 days ago, had him dead and buried. A prominent Rome lawyer who has represented the family of Bernardo Provenzano, the boss of bosses of Sicily?s Cosa Nostra, told an Italian newspaper that he believed the Mafia chief had died several years ago. Other Mob leaders, attorney Salvatore Traina claimed, were using Provenzano?s "ghost" to distract authorities and cover their own tracks. That storyline, like dozens of others that have circulated for decades around Italy?s Most Wanted mob boss, appears to have evaporated on Tuesday with word that the 73-year-old boss...
...views are even more lush at Beppe De Vito's Il Lido Italian restaurant, tel: (65) 6866 1977, on Sentosa island. Indeed, the good-humored owner claims that Il Lido's hilltop setting ranks among "the most beautiful sites in Asia." While that may be a tad hyperbolic, the cooking of chef Michele Pavanello will certainly have you fumbling for superlatives. Dishes like sea urchin spaghetti, or Stracchino cheese and Parma ham with saut?ed mushrooms on a rosemary crisp lure a glamorous crowd, as do the sea views and a chic dining room with furnishings by the likes of Arne...