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While Italian politics always repays careful watching - if you allow yourself to be distracted for a moment you are liable to find that one of the major players has resigned, been indicted or had his party collapse beneath him - no one will be watching Romano Prodi's candidature for premier more carefully than colleagues at London Business School, where he was briefly a governor a few years ago before resigning due to pressure of work.