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ROME | Fri May 25, 2012 3:21pm BST ROME (Reuters) - One of the young women who attended Silvio Berlusconi's "bunga bunga" parties told a court on Friday that she dressed up as a burlesque version of U.S. President Barack Obama to entertain the former Italian prime minister. In testimony during a trial against the 75-year-old Berlusconi on charges of paying for sex with an underage prostitute, Marysthell Polanco said she had also dressed as prosecutor Ilda Boccassini.Boccassini, known as "Ilda the Red" because of her hair colour and what Berlusconi says is her communist political sympathies, is one of the prosecutors in the ongoing trial."I dressed up as Boccassini with a toga to make him laugh, and also as Obama," Polanco told the court.Polanco, ... Continue reading →

By Victoria Howley LONDON | Fri May 25, 2012 7:24am EDT LONDON May 25 (Reuters) - Anthony Parsons, vice-chairman of British mergers and acquisitions at Deutsche Bank, has left to join boutique investment bank Greenhill & Co , two people familiar with the matter said. Parsons, one of the lead advisers to security firm G4S Plc on its failed $8.2 billion bid last year for Danish cleaning company ISS, joins a string of senior bankers leaving major banks for boutiques, a trend driven by generational change and smaller bonuses in the years since the financial crisis.Veteran Goldman Sachs dealmaker Yoel Zaoui retired in April, and peers have speculated that he could set up his own firm.Deutsche Bank reshuffled its UK advisory business last summer before ... Continue reading →

The 1979 disappearance of 6-year-old Etan Patz helped trigger a national movement focusing on missing children. Here is the New York Police Department's original poster for Etan, who went missing May 25, 1979, a block from his SoHo home. He was walking to the school bus stop by himself for the first time when he disappeared. After more than 30 years, a break in the case appeared to develop in April 2012 when police closed off two blocks in New York's SoHo neighborhood and searched a basement in the area for clues. But the search came up empty. On April 20, 2012, New York police and FBI agents removed concrete slabs from a basement in search of clues in the 33-year-old disappearance of Etan. The ... Continue reading →

Harvard students often compete in the classroom, but for at least a few hours this weekend, only one thing helped them make the grade—their looks.Just over a month after two Harvard alums competed in the Miss America Pageant, a website created by Mark E. Zuckerberg ’06 gave students a chance to rate their peers using ID photos taken from online House facebooks.“Were we let in for our looks? No. Will we be judged on them? Yes,” proclaimed the site, which Zuckerberg has now taken offline.Zuckerberg, a computer science concentratror, said he created the site—www.facemash.com—by hacking into House online facebooks and compiling ID photos onto his website, allowing viewers to vote for the “hotter” of two randomly chosen photos or rate the looks of students in ... Continue reading →

Twitter Advice for Goldman Sachs Joshua M Brown May 24th, 2012 Goldman Sachs just sent its very first tweet this morning, it was adorable: Anyway, thought I'd chime in with a few quick tips and suggestions... 1. Be cool. Not everything on your stream has to be PR 2. Tweet research like UBS @UBSAmericas 3. Also join StockTwits and be sure to blast some equity upgrades and downgrades through there - its where all the tickerhounds and traders and investors are, may as well engage. 4. Follow good people, smart people, not just lame, mainstream, boring, "safe" people 5. Wouldn't kill you to throw some RTs around. You'll probably be at 50k followers before year-end, that kind of thing goes a long way in social ... Continue reading →