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Rome tries a new approach to deal with the world’s oldest profession

By Anthony Faiola / Stefano Pitrelli contributed to this report

ROME — The Eternal City is colliding with the world’s oldest profession — and the sparks, as they say, are flying.

The ranks of streetwalkers have surged here in the heart of Catholicism, a swell that Rome’s officials are decrying as a stain on the dignity of the city’s citizens. But in a town of sinners as well as saints, outright bans on selling sex have failed before, leaving city authorities to put their faith in a new approach.

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Will corporate cash save Roman monuments or diminish them?

By Anthony Faiola / Stefano Pitrelli contributed to this report

ROME — They have clothed the world’s wealthy fashionistas and bejeweled Hollywood stars. Now, Italy’s kings of fashion are poised to give this nation’s crumbling monuments a makeover to restore them to their former glory, something the cash-strapped Italian government cannot do.

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