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...votes. "A weight has been taken off," the Italian media magnate said after resigning. But Berlusconi, who just yesterday dared the country's lawmakers to vote him out, is following through on threats to immediately press for a new election he hopes will return him to power. President Oscar Luigi Scalfaro's more ceremonial role in politics now becomes pivotal: he'll decide whether to grant Berlusconi's elections request -- or call on politicians to form a new parliamentary majority without him. The balance tipped against Berlusconi's seven-month-old government last week, when former key ally Umberto Bossi...
...comeback, as one of his chief aides predicted yesterday. Instead, the media magnate warned Italian lawmakers in a speech that voting this week to oust his seven-month-old coalition would turn voters against them. If he loses the no-confidence vote, Berlusconi said, he'll ask President Oscar Luigi Scalfaro to call another election to select Italy's 54th government in 49 years. The controversy revolves around a high-profile criminal inquiry into bribery allegations involving his own firms...
Berlusconi was not ready to concede. If any of the five parties in his government switched allegiance, he said, it would be "a Judas," and he would ask for new elections; he would make no deals "over the heads of the electorate." He had the agreement of President Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, who warned party leaders against forging the kind of Byzantine deals that produced paralytic governments in the past and distorted the voters' expressed will...
Several freshmen (in class name only, as most are over 20 years old) led the team's revival, including 20-goal scorer Chris Ford. Luigi Villa and Mike Gallant will be back in net for Bruce Delventhal's squad...
Look. It is one thing for snobbish European intellectuals to take American trivia seriously. Disneyana is the favorite mirror of America -- succeeding Luigi Barzini's insufficiently satiric suggestion of baseball -- for every European thinker from Umberto Eco on down. It was Eco who in his 1975 essay "Travels in Hyperreality" gave a deep and dark and ironic account of Pirates of the Caribbean as "more real than reality." Heavy implications followed...