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Times explores 'calculating,' 'quirky' sides of Amanda Knox

By Jim O'Neill, Newser User

Posted Jan 13, 2008 10:31 AM CST

(Newser) – She claims to be “a girl of 20, who came to Perugia to learn Italian,” but on her blog, Amanda Knox—accused by Italian police of sexually abusing and murdering British student Meredith Kercher, 21—more aptly nicknamed herself "Foxy Knoxy."... Read full story »

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