The priapic and corrupt Berlusconi is the subject of Alexander Stille’s profile “here.”:http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/11/03/081103fa_fact_stille
Berlusconi, who has undergone surgery that has placed his foot permanently in his mouth, “has recently called”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlusconi#Jokes.2C_gestures_and_blunders Obama “young, handsome and even tanned”. Berlusconi is obsessed with image, it seems. Click on the cartoon to enlarge it!
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