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• Mez: Hearsay Repudiated (2#) -

  Meredith Kercher Murder Case -
  
  Rudy Guede has issued a letter to Italian TV station Mediaset in which he strongly denied discussing the case with any fellow prisoners.
  
  CBS has published Guede's (translated) statement.
  
  Guede's lawyers are his official representatives.
  
  :: UK Press Assoc :: [...]
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• Novack Batmobile Frozen -

  vrooooom & ka-ching . . .
  
  Frustrated auto collectors, anxious to get their hands on the Novack Batmobile Replica, will have to cool their heels a while longer. The Feds have taken control of that showpiece, as well as the rest of the Novack collection of vintage and exotic [...]
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• Jihad Babe Plots (6#) -

  A suburban Philadelphia soi-disant queenpin with the looks of a cocktail waitress in an Irish tavern sashayed her way into an Internet plot to kill Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks.
  
  Colleen R. LaRose, 46, of Pennsburg PA, was arrested last October, but authorities held back the information until now, pending [...]
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• Boar Hunt Ended (2#) -

  Swanky Suburb's Hopes Dashed . . .
  
  The wildlife removal company called in to give residents of posh Plantation Acres Estates relief from the depredations of dozens of wild boar ravaging their properties has thrown in the tea towel.
  
  CEO Jon Gherardi may have been
  initially misled about [...]
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• Bookish: Gadfly Registration (4#) -

  Feisty Sicilians, Pensive Pakistanis & Barry Hannah . . .
  
  Beppo Grillo and other
  Italian Bloggers are under fire by their Parliament,
  according to a recent Maisonneuve report.
  
  They're being targeted for "crimes of opinion."
  
  A bill is in the works which would force Italian ISPs to' [...]
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• Boar Hunt Begins -

  "nuisance wild pigs" - Not!
  
  Hunters caught one of the
  wild boars before daybreak.
  
  Who the hunters were or what
  official authorization they had is unknown.
  
  The 200-pound captured boar was shown on TV this morning. It was dark brown or black with coarse hair, large [...]
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• Mez: Judges' Report Issued (2#) -

  Meredith Kercher Murder Case -
  
  Nick Pisa reports . . .
  that a 427-page explanation
  of the verdict has been released.
  
  No doubt, much discussion will follow.
  
  Meanwhile, some folks who've arrived late, may
  want to refer to an earlier blog entry I posted
  on this case,' [...]
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• Wayward Luggage (3#) -

  Angels With Dirty Wings . . .
  
  A glamorous Latina lingerie model is wanted on an international arrest warrant. The voluptuous (see photo) 30-year-old beauty, Angie Sanselmente Valencia, is accused of running a cocaine empire which smuggled the illegal drug into the U.S. and Europe. [TFP]
  
  Closer [...]
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• Trib Blog Problems -

  Uh-oh . . .
  
  The Tribune in Chicago, parent of the Sun-Sentinel
  newspaper, had been trying to construct a network
  of local blogs, but has encountered some problems,
  as Mike Doyle explains. And it's a cautionary tale.
  
  :: past imperfect ::
  
  ... [...]
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• Catching Up With (2#) -

  The Wallander movie was broadcast beginning at midnight here on the East Coast. The run time was supposed to be 2 hours, but the air time turned out to be only one and a half hours. Either there a mistake or they cut a half hour out of the movie [...]
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