Death of a salesman: Silvio Berlusconi
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The Economist
4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 13 June 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Italy’s longest-serving prime minister has died aged 86. He inspired as much derision as devotion, and for all his gaffes and scandals he helped to shape the country’s media—and its economic malaise. Unfettered by the abandoned nuclear deal, Iran is now making its bomb programme unassailable. And bringing the 20th-century idea of “Smell-o-vision” into the 21st.
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| 1:19.9 | When former President Donald Trump scrapped the nuclear deal with Iran, |
| 1:24.9 | he was heavily criticized for his recklessness, and rightly so. Now, the country is |
| 1:30.2 | expanding its nuclear capabilities, and there's little that America can do about it. And the mid-20th century |
| 1:38.4 | idea of releasing odors into a cinema for a multi-sensory experience just hasn't progressed into the 21st. |
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