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...punished the center-left for its failure to respond to the country's needs under Romano Prodi, whose less than two years in office now amount to a brief interregnum bracketed by Berlusconi. But the 71-year-old center-right leader must overcome Italians' deep-seated doubts that any politician can kick the country into gear...
...fact of the matter is that both the embattled politician and his or her spouse stand to lose big if their marriage itself ends in scandal. For the former, this can mean further tarnishing an already-troubled political career, and for the latter a second professional sacrifice made for personal reasons...
...vote to Clinton 66% to 31% - his campaign has been trotting him through a series of extracurricular activities like bowling, shopping and grabbing beers at a bar. But rather than make him look more like a regular guy, they have looked strained - a regular guy struggling to be a politician playing the role of a regular guy for a photo...
...then, nor since becoming Pope, about his opposition to the American military campaign, though he has spoken out about the Iraqi people's suffering. The intellectually rigorous Pope rarely sounds off on subjects that are not in his purview, say those close to him. "He's not an armchair politician," says one German scholar who's known Ratzinger for years. "He's not an armchair anything." Still, being Pope, especially the successor of the diplomatically adroit John Paul II, means Benedict is expected to make his mark on world politics...
...York Times article last year, an unidentified politician commented on Robert Mugabe. As a fellow member of the ruling party, the politician used affectionate words to describe a man once hailed around the world as a savior capable of bringing together diverse interests and races in a united government: “The old man wants to leave a legacy,” the politician said. “He’s in the twilight of his life, and he wants it to be remembered that he left something to Zimbabweans...