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...fifth night after the murder she has been charged with. She reeled out what she said was an imagined tale of what "might have happened," placing herself with her British roommate Meredith Kercher on the night Kercher's throat was slit in the picturesque cottage they shared overlooking the Umbrian hills. Kercher bled to death after what police say was an agonizing two hours. Prosecutors say Knox cut her roommate's throat after Kercher refused to participate in group sex with the American and her alleged accomplices. (See pictures of crime in Middle America...
This recalls for me the chocolate-and-bread sandwiches that sometimes were my lunch, and always a special treat. And it is another inventive way surplus is used in Umbrian cuisine, with leftover country bread serving as the foundation of an elegant layered dessert. Though it is soaked with chocolate and espresso sauce and buried in whipped cream, the bread doesn't disintegrate, and provides a pleasing textural contrast in every heavenly spoonful...
...circling the globe in your club’s private hovercraft, Prestige and Mobility will go the extra mile. For example, be conventional. Wear clothes that look like they cost $3, but are from an era where $3 bought a house. That means powdered wigs, pocket squares, and fine Umbrian cod pieces—all of which are assets on the punch scene, particularly at The Bee. Show up early for the first mixer so you can greet the members as they arrive. Look sharp by wearing a white tie and bring markers to fill it in as you figure...
...trial for Knox and Sollecito, 24, a doctor's son from the southeastern city of Bari, is expected to begin in December. Along with the enchanting cobblestone setting in this Umbrian hilltop city, it has been Knox's sweetly scrubbed looks that have generated much of the international attention in the case. Emerging in public earlier this month after nearly a year behind bars, the Seattle native appeared dressed in a simple white blouse. Led into the courtroom in handcuffs, photographers captured the mix of beauty and blankness on the lightly freckled visage of the former University of Washington student...
...toward a photographer's camera. The 20-year-old American exchange student with the Ivory-soap complexion was on her way to jail, charged in the murder of her British roommate, who was stabbed in the neck and bled to death in the flat they shared in the picturesque Umbrian capital...