Party planner to the power elite

Joe Klein does a brilliant gift for the bon mot. “I will not yammer on about the glories of Rome, present or past (the latter, dicey for an American) – or about the fact that, contrary to the popular British analogy, America is Greece, not Rome. (Britain, which styles itself Greece, used to be Rome and is now Gaul, though divided into four parts.)”

His interview with Berlusconi is interesting because it pins down a lot of what Italians find attractive about this egregious man.