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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2002

Cher, who claims Indian ancestry, is upset that Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Christie Whitman has covered up murals in a government office depicting Indian men raping and pillaging white women.

"I didn't know that art was politically correct," Cher is reported as saying in the "Reliable Sources" column of The Washington Post.

But lest Cher think she is the arbiter of good art, she tells Lloyd Grove: "I'm not the bastion of good taste. No one knows that better than I."

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