Despite Wiretaps and Economic Woe, Berlusconi Endures.

We have always known that the Italian Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, likes parties and especially young women. There are wiretaps as evidence of this, although this has not been a defeat for his government but Standard & Poor's has downgraded this week the credit rating of Italy for its concern that the government cannot get along with the economy. In response, Berlusconi blamed the media for making political judgments without evidence. The internal politics of Italy, and the media, belong to the Prime Minister, so Berlusconi has everything under control and there is no one with a high power that could replace him.

This article calls the Italian government as a “royal court,” where partners and young women give pleasure to the prince, in this case Berlusconi. It is a policy in which laws are always in government’s favor and it consists of an exchange of favors.
The opposition wants Berlusconi to resign, and a growing number of Mr. Berlusconi’s supporters want a future without this Prime Minister.

From my point of view, it makes sense that even his own supporters do not want a Prime Minister like Silvio Berlusconi, always in the media not because of his good policy but for his night outs with prostitutes.. In the words of Emma Marcegaglia, the president of Confindustria, Italy's top organization of Industrialists, "Italy is a serious country, and we're sick of being an international laughingstock”. Neither the Italian government is doing well in the crisis, which is another point against it.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/21/world/europe/despite-wiretaps-and-economic-woe-berlusconi-endures.html?_r=1&ref=italy



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Jose Murube/ Somalia
The childhood is made by toys, laugh, and happiness, not in weapons and war.
Because of that, I think it is normal that Somalia has the lowest schooling rates in the world as the article says.
Somalia needs a change, change that will be so hard to make it due to the culture and believes of the Somalian people.

Eduardo Mateos/ Ice hockey
Sports are hobbies, are made to have fun and desconnect from reality. If you make them a part of your life, I mean, in a profesionaly way, then it is more serious, because it becomes your job, but this does not mean that you can do whatever you want in order to win. There are rules that you have to follow, and because it is your job, you have to enjoy it instead of thinking about fighting.