Laugh or cry? On March 1st Silvio Berlus-coni's cabinet approved an anti-corruption bill just two days after the resumption of the prime minister's trial for allegedly bribing a court witness.rnDavid Mills, the British lawyer who was the witness, had already been convicted of accepting a $600,000 bribe. Mr Mills took the money for withholding evidence at two trials in the 1990s in which his client was a defendant. But on February 25th his offence was extinguished by Italy's highest appeal court.
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