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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...
...Perugia, prosecutor Mignini is the anti-Berlusconi in style and demeanor, a rumpled, avuncular man with a passion for Catholic Church history. Father to three teenage daughters and a good Italian son who visits his ailing mother at lunchtime, he didn't choose the Knox case. He just happened to be on duty the morning she was arrested. He has inadvertently fueled the popular notion of himself as Knox's chief inquisitor by rising to the bait whenever he is criticized in the U.S. press, suing two virtually unknown American writers for allegedly slandering him, and engaging in a very...
...Cassandra has her reasons for distrusting the drug companies and the Federal Government, so we compromised. Our son got all the shots, but we searched for brands low in aluminum and spaced out the injections over time. Which is fine with me because it means a few extra visits to the doctor's office to make sure things are O.K.-- and a lot less fighting. I'm just hoping her yoga joint doesn't do seminars on peanut allergies...
Claire's old-fashioned father Jay and his passionate Colombian bride Gloria, meanwhile, light up the screen because of the inspired pairing of character actor Ed O'Neill and comic bombshell Sofia Vergara. It's Jay's son Mitchell (Jesse Tyler Ferguson) and his partner Cameron (Eric Stonestreet)--the least conventional couple--who have the most familiar relationship, squabbling and correcting each other as comfortably as retirees on their golden anniversary...
...knack for imbuing punch lines with social commentary earned him Emmy and Tony awards as well as the accolades of legends like Bob Hope, Mel Brooks and Sid Caesar. Gelbart began his career at 16 after his father, a Hollywood barber, bragged to entertainer Danny Thomas about his son's gift for gags. After reading one batch of jokes, Thomas hired the precocious teen, who years later would say laughter was in his genes. Even after a false rumor circulated last year about his death, Gelbart maintained a sense of humor, quipping, "Does that mean I can stop exercising...