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Lieut. Colonel Putin came home to a Russia that was radically altered. While he had been tasting the ways of the West, his country had roiled through the reversals of perestroika. Moscow Center's talent spotters took no interest in him, and he was given a low-rent KGB "cover" job assisting the rector at his old Leningrad university, a position normally reserved for a retiring agent. He was unsure how he fit into the new order, says a close aide. Worse, says Polokhov, who met him again in 1990, Putin was "hurt that the state did not want...
...compensate for increased rent, Latzanakis plans on including a new component to the current Baskin Robbins and Dunkin' Donuts motif: a California-based sandwich shop called Togo, to tap the lunch and dinner market...
While the proprietors of the Dunkin' Donuts are hoping to return following the renovations, some patrons of the Bow wanted to stop the renovations all together or hope to keep the new rent low. They fear the renovations and possible high rent increases would inevitably drive the Bow from the spot it has held comfortably for over 30 years...
Members agreed that rent increases should not be allowed to force out lower income members of the community...
...urge the landlords whose rent increases are meant to clean out the building to bring in more affluent groups to reconsider," said Councillor Kathleen Born...