This week Mr Berlusconi incautiously promised to increase that number tenfold, before backing away.

ECONOMIST: Law and order in Italy

Some colleagues complain that he excavates incautiously, puts public relations before science, hypes his own archeological finds, and takes credit owed to others.

NEWYORKER: The Pharaoh

It was backed cautiously by academics and incautiously by students.

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