"I'm no saint"
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's first public remarks after the release of audio recordings said to be from a night he spent with a prostitute.
The Top 10 Everything of 2009
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TIME charts the highs and lows of the past year in 50 wide-ranging lists
3. Silvio Berlusconi