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...Patrizia Stefanoni, a young forensic scientist who has spent many hours at the prosecution desk, twirling strands of long, dark hair in her fingers and scowling at the defense team's scientific experts. Stefanoni is highly regarded within the Italian legal system, having passed a series of stringent state tests to join the national Polizia Scientifica in Rome. One of her chief antagonists is defense expert Sara Gino, a whiz-kid forensic expert from Turin who charges that Stefanoni cherry-picked DNA results to profile the suspects, ignoring vast amounts of other biological material. Gino also alleges that Stefanoni lied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Tough Women of the Amanda Knox Case | 9/29/2009 | See Source »

...this does not mean that the United States’ newly buttressed position should be used to antagonize Iran. The volatile nation is not one that responds well to threats or accusations—shortly after the Obama administration’s censure of the Iranian deception, Iran test-fired several short-range missiles in what may be interpreted as a show of force. There is still potential for reconciliation, and the upcoming talks with Iran in Geneva should be defined by neither appeasement nor Axis-of-Evil-era aggression, but rather by a U.S. that is willing to negotiate...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Taming Tehran | 9/28/2009 | See Source »

...team, we use the fall to test our skills against the best competition and see how much we’ve improved from last year and see how far we have to go to become contenders in the spring,” sophomore Davis Mangham said. “There is less pressure, and you can really let things go and see how things are developing and how our team stacks up against the best players in the country...

Author: By Colin Whelehan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Players Tune Up at USTA National Tennis Center | 9/28/2009 | See Source »

...regime's response on Sunday was to flex its military muscle. To shouts of "Allahu akbar," the Revolutionary Guards test-fired short-range missiles to demonstrate that Iran has the necessary arsenal to defend itself. "We are going to respond to any military action in a crushing manner, and it doesn't make any difference which country or regime has launched the aggression," said General Hossein Salami, head of the Revolutionary Guard Air Force, according to Iran's state media. The tests were successful, with the short-range missiles hitting their targets, he said. (Read "Iran Standoff: Is a Nuclear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Power to Chaos — Tracking Iran's Four-Month Slide | 9/28/2009 | See Source »

...shifted ... They have to come to this meeting on Oct. 1 and present convincing evidence as to the purpose of their nuclear program. We don't believe that they can present convincing evidence that it's only for peaceful purposes. But we are going to put them to the test...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Power to Chaos — Tracking Iran's Four-Month Slide | 9/28/2009 | See Source »

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