Do you remember the thread re good looking politicians? The one with the pretty woman from Italy who was a Minister for Equal Opportunity? ooh la la, there's a toe curling article about Berlusconi and his connivance and play time in the Nov 3 New Yorker - well, much more than about play, more like government takeover.
Not to judge her, but maybe not to not to. Anyway, I couldn't think up key words for searching out the old thread.
Here's the article - Oh, cripes, it's only in abstract ----
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/11/03/081103fa_fact_stille