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I've been thinking lately about Giuseppe Rossi, and about the twists and turns that a sports career can take, even for the most promising athletes. If you're a U.S. soccer fan, you know plenty about Rossi, the Italian-American New Jersey native who chose to play for Italy over the U.S. and became a budding star for the Azzurri and Spain's Villarreal (where he scored 32 goals in all competitions in 2010-11).

Amanda Knox's slander trial in Italy has been postponed until next year because the judge was busy with another trial.

Knox faces a charge of slander in Perugia for publicly accusing police of physically and verbally abusing her during questioning after the 2007 slaying of her British roommate. A court on Thursday suspended the case until Feb. 5.

This thesis traces the development of Italian home cooking from within the homes of Italian immigrants in New York City, to its acceptance in American homes, and finally its popularization by the prepared food and restaurant industries. In time, Italian food would go from relative obscurity to become the first ethnic cuisine largely adopted and prepared in American homes.

FLORENCE, Italy—Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti said Europe should invest in public projects like cross-border electricity grids to trigger growth, offering this as a middle path between U.S.-style fiscal stimulus and the more Germanic preference for budgetary rigor.