Politics

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Mitt Romney combines campaigning with a grocery store run in Wolfeboro, N.H., on Monday. According to polls, voters say Mr. Romney is better equipped to handle the economy, but they’d rather have a beer with President Obama. (Associated Press)

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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton meets with former South African President Nelson Mandela at his home in Qunu, South Africa, on Monday. Mrs. Clinton is slated to meet with the nation’s current leaders in Pretoria on Tuesday. (Associated Press)

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Specialist Donald Himpele, foreground second left, resumes trading in AIG stock on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Friday, Aug. 3, 2012. The U.S. government says it plans to sell $4.5 billion in American International Group common stock, the latest effort to recoup taxpayer money spent on the largest bailout of the 2008 financial crisis. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

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**FILE** An Israeli soldier examines the wreckage of an Egyptian military vehicle after militants drove it through a security fence into Israel from Egypt at an Israeli military base on Aug. 6, 2012. (Associated Press)

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, and Israel's Defense Minister Ehud Barak stand next to the wreckage of an Egyptian military vehicle after militants burst it through a security fence into Israel from Egypt, at an Israeli military base along the border with Egypt, southern Israel, Monday, Aug. 6, 2012. Officials say Egypt has deployed at least two helicopter gunships to the Sinai Peninsula in the hunt for militants behind the killing of 16 Egyptian soldiers at a checkpoint along the border with Israel. Suspected Islamists on Sunday evening attacked the Egyptian checkpoint, killed the troops, then stole two of their vehicles and burst through a security fence into Israel. Israeli aircraft then halted their assault. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

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Gibson Guitar CEO Henry Juszkiewicz speaks last year about a federal raid at the company’s plant in Nashville. Gibson will pay a penalty for importing exotic wood, and the government will drop its case. (Associated Press)

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Director of the StartStrong project at the Boston Public Health Commission, Nicole Daley, right, speaks with a participant during the Break-Up Summit at Simmons College in Boston, Thursday, July 26, 2012. The summit, sponsored by the Boston Public Health Commission, is part of a national program aimed at preventing dating violence. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)

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“The Campaign” pits Will Ferrell (left) against Zach Galifianakis as contenders in a bitter campaign to represent their North Carolina town in the U.S. House. The two wanted to work together and came up with the idea for a broad comedy after changing their minds about an earlier concept. (Warner Bros. via Associated Press)

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President Obama walks towards the podium to talk about taxes, Friday, Aug. 3, 2012, in the Old Executive Office building of the White House complex in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

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President Obama speaks Aug. 6, 2012, in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington after signing the Honoring America's Veterans and Caring for Camp Lejeune Families Act of 2012. (Associated Press)