By Gaither Stewart in Rome

How much laughter and tears, consternation and gnashing of teeth Silvio Berlusconi continues to provoke in Italy, Europe and the world. Now, after a two-year interim out of power during which he conducted a non-stop electoral campaign and never recognized his 2006 defeat, he is back in power for the third time, voted in by an overwhelming majority of the “people who are always right”, as politicians love to claim. His miracle this time was the creation of a new party, The People of Freedom party (Popolo della Libert