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Ashcroft Gone, Justice Statues Disrobe
By MARK SHERMAN, Associated Press Writer
Friday, June 24, 2005
(06-24) 16:24 PDT WASHINGTON, (AP) --

With barely a word about it, workers at the Justice Department Friday removed the blue drapes that have famously covered two scantily clad statues for the past 3 1/2 years.
Spirit of Justice, with her one breast exposed and her arms raised, and the bare-chested male Majesty of Law basked in the late afternoon light of Justice's ceremonial Great Hall.
The drapes, installed in 2002 at a cost of $8,000, allowed then-Attorney General John Ashcroft to speak in the Great Hall without fear of a breast showing up behind him in television or newspaper pictures. They also provoked jokes about and criticism of the deeply religious Ashcroft.
source: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/06/24/national/w155645D10.DTL