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Those 15 years in the KGB did give Putin rare exposure to the outside world. "Compared to the boneheads in internal repression, he had to be relatively open minded," says a British diplomat. But many Russians still fear the way such a sinister organization twists minds. Putin rehung the plaque of Yuri Andropov at KGB headquarters, and always stoutly defends the organization and his service in it. "Their system of education is so strong that there is no such thing as a former KGB agent," says former army Colonel Viktor Baranets. Today, Putin has surrounded himself with many...
...Jiles rehung the flag inside his room, out of public view. He said he was "kind of disgusted" that house residents had continued to find the flag offensive. "I think there's room for a lot more tolerance instead of just talk about tolerance at Harvard," he said...
...etchings and lithographs by Philip Pearlstein were rehung in the university's McClung Museum by order of university administrators. They explained that the student center gallery is actually a hailway that is a "public thoroughtfare," where people should not be forced to see prints to which they might object...
...storage room in the lower depths of the Pentagon, Florida's Democratic Congressman Robert Sikes took umbrage. "Old Jeff," cried he, "shouldn't be banned to the basement." Once part of the decor in the Defense Secretary's office, Old Jeff's portrait was rehung last week, upstairs in a prominent spot on the wall of an endless Pentagon hall. Still unknown: the identity of the carpetbagger who had kicked Jeff Davis downstairs...
...crystal chandeliers in the U.S. Capitol had been taken down, disassembled, washed prism by prism, reassembled and rehung. Twenty-two painters had brushed their way across Capitol Hill, cleaning and painting walls. By this week all was in readiness for the fall of the gavel opening the second session of the 84th Congress...