The Knox Trial Endgame
Barbie Latza Nadeau has reported from Italy for Newsweek Magazine since 1997. She also writes for CNN Traveller, Budget Travel Magazine and Frommer's.
As closing arguments began, prosecutors described accused murderess Amanda Knox as a sex-and-drug-crazed sociopath while tears streamed down her face.
In the late 1980s, I spent a month in Naples chasing a story with my husband, Gerald, on the Camorra, Naples' secret society that is really just a bunch of thugs. It was then that I fell in love with the raw, gritty city. Now, Johnnie ...
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Berlusconi's Tranny Defense
Barbie Latza Nadeau has reported from Italy for Newsweek Magazine since 1997. She also writes for CNN Traveller, Budget Travel Magazine and Frommer's.
As Italy's leader tries to use a politician's affair with a transsexual prostitute to deflect his own scandals, Barbie Latza Nadeau says his misogyny is finally catching up with him.
Forget the hype about French black truffles. If you really want gastronomic ecstasy, start sniffing around for Italian white truffles-truly the diamond of tubers. I highly recommend a truffle holiday as a fab niche travel experience. It...
Barbie Latza Nadeau has reported from Italy for Newsweek Magazine since 1997. She also writes for CNN Traveller, Budget Travel Magazine and Frommer's.
Knox Evidence Will Stand Alone
Barbie Latza Nadeau has reported from Italy for Newsweek Magazine since 1997. She also writes for CNN Traveller, Budget Travel Magazine and Frommer's.
Grim news today for accused murderess Amanda Knox: The Italian judge ruled that damning evidence-including a knife with her DNA on it-cannot be re-analyzed.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
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