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Scandali del sesso: Liscia, Gassata o Ferrarelle?, 30 Gennaio, 2014

Mi scuso con i lettori di Repubblica per il mio lungo silenzio. Mi sono spostato da New York a Parigi e trovandomi in un paese nuovo non sapevo cosa scrivere. Per molto tempo mi sono abituato a vedere il mondo da un’angolazione particolare: di uno che si muoveva tra gli Stati Uniti e l’Italia. Aggiungere…

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Red States, Blue States and wishy washy journalism

Interesting story by Dan Balz of the WPost on polarization – the increase of single party control in the States. But also example of wishy-washy on-the-hand-on-the-other-hand journalism. http://wapo.st/1lreL6O (It is truly amazing that Supreme Court Justice has stopped reading the Washington Post because he finds it so incredibly biased and prefers to read the fair…

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Aug. 8, Berlusconi trying to change the subject

There is a famous saying among defense attorneys: when the facts are against you argue the law; when the law is against you, argue the facts; when both the facts and the law are against you, yell! That’s what we’re seeing after the conviction of Berlusconi in his tax fraud case: much yelling, as a…

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Aug 4, Threats of “civil war.”

What is astonishing is that Berlusconi’s supporters scream and shout about democracy being subverted, magistrates ignoring voters. But of course they never talk about the actual facts and evidence of the cases against Berlusconi. The fact that three different courts have found incontrovertible evidence that completely phony transactions were invented in order to inflate the…

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