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Most accounts of the Amanda Knox trial, now winding into its final phase, pit the American girl against Perugia's chief prosecutor, Giuliano Mignini, the man who officially charged Knox; her Italian boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito; and the son of an African immigrant, in the case of the grisly murder of British exchange student Meredith Kercher two years ago. But anyone watching the trial soon notices that the case rests on the work of a band of fierce women who bear no resemblance to the caricature of the womanhood in Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's Italy...
...many supporters in the U.S. say the case is far from cut and dried. Family lawyers call the forensics collection deeply flawed, the DNA evidence laughably slim. One theory says the entire trial is the fantasy of prosecutor Giuliano Mignini, who is facing misconduct charges in a separate case. He has never provided a convincing motive or solid evidence to support the group-sex theory. In her two days on the stand, Knox poked holes in the prosecution's legitimacy, noting that she cooperated as a witness while the police never told her she was a suspect. A lawyer...
Meanwhile, the case is developing into a matter of national pride in both Italy and the U.S. Prosecutor Giuliano Mignini, heavily criticized by the Knox family and American supporters, did not question Knox on Friday. Sources told TIME he is seething over a blog on Thursday's New York Times website, which described his case as full of flaws backed by shoddy police work. He told TIME he would react publicly to the recent U.S. criticism next week...
...evening never gets stuck in gridlock. Tintypes has been nimbly and stylishly conceived by the trio of creators, who also serve as choreographer, pianist-conductor and director. Doing skits as well as songs, the five-member cast is in perpetuum mobile. Carolyn Mignini, as Anna Held, is a seraphic soprano; Mary Catherine Wright, militancy incarnate as Emma Goldman; and Trey Wilson makes a bully "T.R." And in a gentle zephyr of a show, Lynne Thigpen is a bracing typhoon belter...
...race with her pet "Knight," while dozens of girls danced the monkey and the bird. Miss Teenage Memphis disapproved, saying: "I feel I cannot live for God and participate in the vulgarity of some of the modern dances." When the feathers settled, the winner was a gleeful soprano, Carolyn Mignini, 17. a Baltimore oriole who will use her $10,000 prize to study at Juilliard...