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This week in a court in Ravenna, Italy, Western Kentucky University will square off with Mediaset, a TV company controlled by Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. WKU, whose mascot has been the fuzzy-slipper-like BIG RED, right, since 1979, claims that GABIBBO, the mascot for Mediaset's nightly show Striscia la Notizia (Stripping the News), is a clear rip-off, and is suing for $250 million. In support of the claim, Big Red and the kid who plays him are traveling to Italy to do interviews. But are they a match for the Italian blob's charm? Gabibbo...
...number of firearms. Not So Immune, After All ITALY Two of the four parties in Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's ruling coalition threatened to quit after Justice Minister Roberto Castelli tried to block an investigation into Berlusconi's business dealings. Castelli had vetoed the probe into Berlusconi's Mediaset company, but reversed the decision, with Berlusconi's agreement, after the coalition partners threatened to walk; Castelli then survived a no-confidence vote 166 to 121. Curbing the Generals TURKEY In an unprecedented move, parliament passed a reform package limiting the role of the country's powerful military in politics...
...down, and Berlusconi proved why when he attempted to explain away his gaffe at the Strasbourg Parliament. Martin Schulz, he prattled, reminded him of Sergeant Shultz, the bumblingly sycophantic but endearingly human guard on the 1960s American sitcom Hogan's Heroes, which used to run on Berlusconi's private Mediaset network. That such a trite image of Germans would be foremost in his mind isn't just embarrassing to Berlusconi; it's embarrassing to Germany, too. Despite spending half a century in a painful, unprecedented process called Vergangenheitsbewältigung (coming to terms with the past), Germany hasn't forged...
...legal problems into a closet and slamming the door. But his conflict-of-interest problem remains, as even one supporter admits, "as big as a house." The Prime Minister is also the country's leading publisher, advertiser and a major player in the financial and insurance sectors. His three Mediaset channels account for more than 90% of the national commercial TV market, and he exerts a powerful sway over state broadcaster RAI. Last April he publicly called for the sacking of three left-leaning talk-show hosts - and they were duly fired. "Italy risks sliding into a regime without realizing...
...firm, which could both be sold off to reduce debt. While there has been a public clamor to find a "German solution" to the Kirch bankruptcy, Schr?der has said he would have no objections if Murdoch took over parts of the business. The same could not be said for Mediaset, since Berlusconi is a conservative politician whose policies are frequently at odds with those of the left-leaning Schr?der...