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Julius Caesar, in addition to being a good deal more intelligent and better looking than his contemporary counterpart (although similarly challenged when it came to the amount of hair on his head), was also a far more charismatic lover\u2014and unlike Berlusconi, who recently declared \u201cIt\u2019s better to be passionate about pretty girls than gay,\u201d Caesar happily bedded both men and women. Hordes of prostitutes flocked in their time to the imperial residence on the Palatine Hill, as many, perhaps, as have ever gathered chez Berlusconi for sing-alongs, *gelati*, and \u201cbunga-bunga\u201d (a word and orgiastic practice the prime minister allegedly learned from his good friend Muammar Qaddafi).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137642,"featured_media":0,"template":"","categories":[18752,18750],"tags":[9750,9484,9636,9637],"daily-type":[9466],"coauthors":[7566],"class_list":["post-43573","daily","type-daily","status-publish","hentry","category-international-politics","category-politics","tag-corruption","tag-history","tag-italy","tag-silvio-berlusconi","daily-type-nyr-daily","author-roles-by","author-cap-ingrid-d-rowland"],"acf":[],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/nybooks.com\/online\/2010\/11\/10\/berlusconi-will-someone-please-pull-plug\/","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Berlusconi: Will Someone Please Pull the Plug?","url":"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/online\/2010\/11\/10\/berlusconi-will-someone-please-pull-plug\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/online\/2010\/11\/10\/berlusconi-will-someone-please-pull-plug\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":""},"articleSection":"International","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ingrid D. 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