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...tapes, and it's by turns intimate and dispassionately historical. With its chronological account of Clinton's then contemporaneous comments on the Middle East peace process, his Republican opponents and just about everything else under the sun (except for Whitewater and, for the most part, the Monica Lewinsky scandal), this book will be a boon to historians. The casual reader, however, might delight more in Branch's glimpses of an unguarded President: cold-stricken and hunched over a kitchen table in boxer shorts, or discussing Bosnian air strikes while simultaneously filling in one of his ever present crossword puzzles...
Colombia has announced plans to dismantle its domestic intelligence service in the wake of a ballooning scandal. Agents of the DAS, as it is known, are accused of wiretapping judges, reporters and government critics. President Alvaro Uribe will petition Colombia's Congress to liquidate the agency--which has more than 6,000 employees and reports directly to the President--and create a trimmed-down replacement...
...conventional wisdom in Italy, in both press and political circles, seems to be that it's just Berlusconi being Berlusconi. The latest quip got only passing notice from Italy's center-left opposition, which is more focused on Berlusconi's ongoing sex scandal. Even the leading leftist daily, La Repubblica, referred to the remarks as the latest "Berlusconi Show." (See pictures of Italy...
...Berlusconi has never seemed to suffer from mean-spirited racism. Still, his eagerness to continue cracking racial jokes shows how outdated he and a big chunk of Italian society are. The lack of outrage from ordinary Italians compounds the crime. (Read "The Berlusconi Tapes: 5 Ways to Evade the Scandal...
...things - dubbed by Italians vitello, or veal - from his broadcasting empire into his Cabinet. He has deflected the political fallout from the nearly pornographic video of orgiastic parties at his villas. First-person accounts from prostitutes hired to entertain him, which would have a U.S. President in an impeachment scandal, are mere delicious newspaper morsels in Italy. (See the top 10 unsolved crimes...