Vera Campanelli, Italy: I want to use my voice and my actions to honor inspiring people of my country: important Italian politicians like Enrico Berlinguer, or magistrates who gave their lives to defeat mafia, like Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino.

FORBES: The No.1 Trait Of Role Models. Do You Have It?

He has kept the experienced Lamberto Dini as foreign minister and the solid Enzo Bianco as home minister, but felt obliged to sack the two ministers who at least had the guts to try to launch the boldest of the reforms attempted by the previous government: Rosy Bindi at the health ministry and Luigi Berlinguer at education.

ECONOMIST: Italy??s edgy new government