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'Tanned Obama' questions anger Berlusconi

Nov. 7, 2008
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has dismissed criticism of his description of U.S. president-elect Barack Obama as "tanned" and walked out of a news conference after blasting a journalist who pressed him on the issue.
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