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At least the G8 inspired a couple of sidebars, again from NBC and ABC but not from CBS. Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi had relocated the summit into the Appennine Mountains to publicize the rebuilding needs of L'Aquila, the medieval city leveled by April's earthquake. NBC's Martin Fletcher filed a trio of reports (here, here and here) from the zone at the time. Now for his follow-up: aftershocks continue; the old town remains a deserted ruin; 25,000 live in tents. Yet life goes on. Fletcher was a wedding guest: "Married life begins at Tent #9, Piazza d'Armi Refugee Camp."
ABC's Nick Watt turned his attention to the summit's host, the 72-year-old Berlusconi, "a self-confessed ladies' man with a great tan and hair plugs." His Minister of Equal Opportunities is a "former topless model." His soon-to-be-ex-wife was "an actress who was topless on stage when she first caught his eye." In April he gave a lingerie model an 18th birthday present of a diamond necklace when he attended her party. As for reports that he sometimes dated "let us say professional ladies," Berlusconi denied all: "I have never understood what satisfaction there is without conquest."
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