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Italy

• January 16 -- Does Frank Bruni Dislike Silvio Berlusconi? The Eyes Have It
Frank Bruni's latest scoop on his personal bugbear, Italy's "epically wealthy and willful" prime minister Silvio Berlusconi: Plastic surgery!

• December 8 -- Berlusconi Makes Bruni Looney
Something about Italy's pro-war, pro-Bush prime minister gets under Frank Bruni's skin.

• August 21 -- Italy’s “Shameless” Berlusconi Hampers Press Freedom
Alessandra Stanley enjoys an unsympathetic documentary of conservative Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, her only lament being it doesn’t go far enough to expose how “Berlusconi gets away with such outlandish statements and acts.” She also accuses him of “hampering freedom of the press.”

• August 20 -- Bruni Bashes Berlusconi
Frank Bruni again takes on Italy’s conservative prime minister, “whose commingling of public and private power is unrivaled in Europe and has prompted questions about whether democracy can truly flourish when one man dominates so much of a country.”

• June 30 -- Frank Bruni Sees Red In Italy
Frank Bruni wonders if Italy’s right-leaning Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, is too hard on Communism: “He also owns one of Italy's biggest publishing houses, Mondadori, which several years ago released ‘The Black Book of Communism,’ a harshly negative appraisal of the ideology's legacy.” Has the Times ever criticized a book for being too tough on the Nazis?