Word: tweed
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Cory Booker lives in a penthouse apartment with a picture-postcard view of the Manhattan skyline. It's just what you would expect from a 31-year-old Stanford graduate, Rhodes scholar and Yale-trained lawyer who wears tweed pants. Except that when Booker goes home, he waits at least 10 minutes for the elevator. And when it comes, he crowds on with ex-cons, tiny children and old ladies, all of whom know his name. A uniformed guard pushes the buttons...
...Friday evening, a security guard stopped a man wearing a tweed jacket from entering one of the William James lobby elevators. According to a police source, the man asked the security guard whether there was animal testing in the building...
...tenured Harvard professor is afraid to speak on the record, might I be in for more than I bargained? Has the Ivory Tower Mafia put the kibosh on chit-chat for secret, sordid reasons best left unexplored? More important, can tweed coats carry switchblades? Do corduroy patches cover gang signs? Are the cops going to find my mangled remains in a cement factory down the road from the next Modern Language Association convention...
...entertainment for a while now. Flair certainly isn't going to help the situation. If Flair's going to run, how long will it be before Hulk Hogan and Sable join the fun? How long before Hollywood remembers the Reagan era and hauls out the B-movie actors? (Shannon Tweed for Mayor!) On the flip side, North Carolina and Minnesota would be the only states where the governors are easily accessible to citizens in the form of action figures...
...this Westin Hotel Convention Center, just east of San Jose, Calif., a revival meeting is in progress. Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers, 50, struts across the stage wearing a gray tweed suit and preaching the gospel of the network to a packed, 8,000-strong congregation of the converted. We have made great strides, Chambers drawls in his West Virginian birch-beer-sweet voice, but we need to be ever vigilant, for around the corner, right outside this hall, lurks the enemy--Nortel, Lucent and start-up companies we've never heard of, jesters who would steal our cybercrown...