Word: perugia
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...three times for three separate footprints. In film footage taken at least a day later, another team of investigators attempts, using photographs, to place where the footprints had been. "They should have lifted the tile," Bremner says, shaking her head. (Read a story about Amanda Knox's testimony in Perugia...
...packed hearing in a medieval building in the vertiginous central Italian hill town of Perugia, in a room with restored Madonna-and-child frescoes on a back wall, Knox painted herself as the victim of a false confession in which a seemingly sympathetic Italian police interpreter described her own traumatic experience that made her "forget what happened" and then suggested the same psychological syndrome might have affected Knox. "It was a complicated situation," Knox said, describing how she confessed to being in the cottage and falsely accused her former boss of murder as well. Knox now says she spent...
...shipped to Switzerland or South America. She was in an apartment in the Bronx, a private gallery in St. Petersburg or a secret room in the mansion of J.P. Morgan. In fact, she had never left Paris. The thief turned out to be Vincenzo Peruggia - the Hooblers spell it Perugia - an Italian house painter and carpenter living in France, though he was arrested for the crime - in December 1913 - in Florence. He had gone there with the painting after contacting a Florentine art dealer, Alfredo Geri, who he hoped would help him dispose of his hostage in a way that...
...Dennis Redmont, professor of international communication at the University of Perugia, says both moguls may be realizing they have misjudged the situation. "They underestimated each other," says Redmont, a former Associated Press bureau chief in Italy. "Murdoch thought he was getting a monopoly on [pay TV], and Berlusconi didn't expect that Sky would grow so quickly." Given that both men are known for their business pragmatism, perhaps it's time for another lunch...
...Knox, 21, her Italian boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, and Rudy Guede, from the Ivory Coast, were accused of the Nov. 2 rape and murder of Meredith Kercher. The case has generated months of lurid headlines around the world, and featured as much confusion as prurient curiosity. A Perugia judge offered the first big dose of clarity late Tuesday after all the contradicting defense alibis, allegations of police mishandling of evidence and a prosecutorial reconstruction more chilling than any tabloid account. After 12 hours of deliberation, Judge Paolo Micheli found Guede, 21, guilty of the murder and rape of Kercher, and ordered...