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This is how an Italian government ends. One-by-one, each Senator was required to say out loud whether he or she wanted the center-left government of Prime Minister Romano Prodi to stand or fall. It was the final evening act in a day's worth of high and low drama in the ornate chambers of the Italian Senate on Thursday. There were bombastic speeches by party members defying their leaders' orders on which way to vote. Former Justice Minister Clemente Mastella, who'd brought on the government crisis by yanking his support from Prodi, choked...
...medieval knight. The Justice Minister's honor - and particularly that of his wife, a local politician - had been sullied, he fumed, when a magistrate near their hometown east of Naples leveled influence-peddling charges at both of them. And thus this key centrist ally of Prime Minister Romano Prodi announced that he, "with great courage," was withdrawing his party's support for the fragile majority, opening the door to a government crisis. "Che coraggio!?" an Italian might say with an apt double meaning: "What courage?" and "What gall!" Just 24 hours later, Mastella was already being publicly courted by Silvio...
...Romano Prodi has had a long history of taking his political hits, brushing off his blue suit and getting back up for another day. But the former and current Italian Prime Minister may be about to suffer the knockout blow on a career that stretches back to 1978, when the ambitious economics professor became one of the youngest cabinet ministers in the country's history...
...majority.” Morella, who was also an IOP fellow in 2003, said she is pleased to return to Cambridge to discuss issues such as redistricting, special interest groups, and globalization with students. The other spring 2008 IOP fellows are Bart Peterson, a former mayor of Indianapolis; Lois Romano, a political reporter at The Washington Post; Sile de Valera, a former member of the Irish National Parliament and the European Parliament; and David R. Zwick, founder and president of advocacy group Clean Water Action. The new IOP study groups will kick off in early February. —Staff...
...woman who chose to fight her battle until the end with a single weapon - the one of dialogue and political debate." Italian Premier ROMANO PRODI...