Word: tweeds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...middle of this escalating crisis, a man described by a source as wearing a brown tweed jacket walked into the heavily guarded seventh-floor offices of the State Department's executive secretary, who manages the flow of paper among the department's top officials and especially what goes to and from Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. According to a version of events supplied exclusively to TIME by a State Department employee and confirmed by other officials, the man proceeded to open, in full view of two secretaries, a zippered pouch containing some of the highest-level intelligence secrets...
WASHINGTON: Call it the purloined paper chase. There are red faces at the State Department Monday after TIME exclusively revealed one of the most embarrassing security breaches of recent times: The tale of the man in the brown tweed jacket. This mysterious stranger apparently walked right into Madeleine Albright?s inner sanctum last month, and proceeded to empty a pouch marked Sensitive Compartmented Information into his briefcase before casually strolling out -- in full view of two secretaries...
...full-scale investigation. Trouble is, they don?t even know what was taken. ?The exact nature of what the papers were and whether anything is missing is the subject of the investigation,? said a State Department official who -- understandably -- preferred to remain anonymous. Next question: Could the brown tweed man be tied to a Washington Times report that the feds are also investigating the passing of information to an Iraqi agent? The spy, according to the Times, procured information about U.S. air strikes, then imminent. However, given the trumpeting of attack plans at the time, it?s hard...
...professor removes his tweed jacket, hangs it on the back of a chair and prepares to teach what is widely acknowledged to be unteachable. Things are going well for him. His big new novel, Cloudsplitter (HarperCollins; 758 pages; $27.50), about the raging, God-haunted 19th century abolitionist John Brown, is about to hit the bookstores, and he has learned this very day that director Atom Egoyan's movie of his novel The Sweet Hereafter has earned two Academy Award nominations. Another film, drawn from his novel Affliction and starring Nick Nolte, is ready for distribution. He smiles. Equal to equal...
...entryway of Massachusetts Hall. E. Fred Yalouris '71 was one of Young's advisees at the time and also remembers the man. "He was in his late fifties or early sixties--this was back in '67-'68--and he was dressed in wing-tipped shoes and a tweed jacket, very Ivy. The man came into B entryway one day and knocked on our door. He proceeded to sit and talk, always "very gracious and well-spoken." Young remembers that "he insisted that he had lived in B entry and that he had been roommates with Senator Saltonstall in the Class...