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with the possibility of legal recourse and continued scrutiny in the weeks and months ahead.
• Farrow, in her most detailed account yet, alleged in an open letter published Feb. 1 by The New York Times that Allen "sexually assaulted" her when she was 7 years old at the Farrows' Connecticut home, renewing a charge against the movie director that was first leveled in 1992.
• Allen responded in a letter posted online Friday night by the Times that insisted "of course I did not molest Dylan." He instead claimed the young Dylan had been coerced and misled by her mother, Mia Farrow. The two acrimoniously separated after Farrow discovered Allen was having an affair with her adopted daughter Soon-Yi Previn, who was 19 or 21 at the time. (Her date of birth is uncertain.)
• "I loved (Dylan) and hope one day she will grasp how she has been cheated out of having a loving father and exploited by a mother more interested in her own festering anger than her daughter's well-being," said Allen, who married Previn in 1997 and has two adopted daughters with her.
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• ROME (AP) -- He's a brash, kid-faced dynamo who is injecting fresh blood into Italy's sclerotic politics -- and the left's great hope now that Silvio Berlusconi's criminal convictions keep the long-time leader out of power.
• And Matteo Renzi, elected in December as leader of the Democratic Party, has even cut a deal that many would have thought impossible.
• Who would have bet that the Communist-hating Berlusconi would have done business in a room where Fidel Castro and Ernesto Che Guevara gaze down from photographs on the wall?
• The irrepressible Renzi did.
• The 39-year-old Renzi, who cites Tony Blair as a hero and doubles as Florence mayor when he isn't running Premier Enrico Letta's center-left party, has confidently, almost cockily, established himself as the politician to reckon with these days in Italy.
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• COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) -- Copenhagen Zoo has killed a healthy giraffe

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