That is the real tragedy of Mr Berlusconi's storm-tossed venture into politics.

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Like many of his fellow tycoons, Mr Tanti has seen a big chunk of his paper fortune blown away in recent weeks on a storm-tossed stockmarket.

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But you can steal away from all that and refresh yourself in the cool and dark of the chapel beneath the Black Madonna and the lamps hung there by Crusaders and the bell that was said to ring miraculously every time storm-tossed sailors were saved by the Virgin of Rocamadour.

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Vytorin is being tossed about by a larger political storm centered on how much evidence doctors should require about a drug's safety and effectiveness and how much risk patients should expect every time they swallow a pill.

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Mike Bettes, an anchor and meteorologist for The Weather Channel, felt the storm's ferocity when it picked up his crew's truck and tossed it 200 yards into a field.

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