A slideshow including images of a bronzed Department of Veterans Affairs employee in a sleeveless muscle shirt, a beach on Italy’s Amalfi coast and what appeared to be each serving of a nine-course meal at “Trattoria Arleste” in Cirella, Italy,...
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A soldier with Blackfoot Company 1st Battalion 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment has Thanksgiving dinner while standing watch in a guard tower in Matakhan, Afghanistan, in this file photo.
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Phone booths in Rome.
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If Mitt Romney’s tour of Europe skipped Italy, there was good reason. Bain Capital, when Romney was chief executive, made about $1 billion in a leveraged buyout there. The deal done 12 years ago remains controversial in Italy to this...
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