It Is hard not to feel some sympathy for Mario Monti, Italy's prime minister. He was in the Gulf this week, trying (with some success) to persuade oil-rich investors that Italy had turned over a new leaf, when the spotlight was suddenly turned back to an affair at home as lurid as any in Italy's recent, scandal-ridden past. And his predecessor, Silvio Berlusconi, was once again at the centre of it.
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