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What triggers revolution? In the Middle East, popular uprisings that swept the leaders of Tunisia and Egypt from power have spread to challenge authoritarian rulers for crushing their freedom over decades. In Britain, the steep rise in university tuition fees has mobilized student demonstrators in numbers not seen in a generation. In Italy, the last straw for the people is “bunga bunga.”

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has been chased through the courts over his financial dealings for years. But the issue that brought hundreds of thousands of women onto the streets was an allegation that he paid an underage girl for sex in “bunga bunga” parties at his Sardinian villa. Berlusconi, who denies the sex charge and says he was unaware that she was 17, now faces trial in Italy before an all-woman panel in April.

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