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...runs upstairs to his room at the tiny Governor's Inn to change out of his blue suit; it's the only one he has in Tallahassee, and it has started to rain. Fond of Lands' End tailoring, knit ties and cheap watches, Boies quickly returns in a gray tweed wool jacket, which, for the rest of the day, he pulls over his head to stay dry, as if an umbrella might slow him down. He feels the same way about briefcases and legal pads. As best I can tell, through 13 TV appearances, several meetings and one press conference...
Cambridge resident William C. Jones, 80, with his trademark tweed hat, grey jacket and well-chiseled chin, has been roaming the chambers of City Hall for the last four decades, attending City Council meetings as if it was a weekly religious duty...
...last half century, as universities got bigger, fund-raising became more important and campuses grew more politicized, the university presidency has transformed from an easy job for the tweed-wearing academic into a high-powered position for the smooth-talking politician-fundraiser...
What seems almost certain to sell this fall is tweed, which has been shaken out of its owlish mien by designers like Marc Jacobs and Veronique Branquinho. Even better if the tweed belonged to Mom, as vintage clothing gets hotter than ever. But when even the chicest tweed seems too fusty, fashionistas will fall back on denim, preferably in treacherously low-rise hipsters like those by Frankie...
...real answer is that Venter thumbs his nose at the system and the scientific establishment. He scorns the feigned modesty that most scientists wear as comfortably as their lab coats and tweed jackets. He loves to buck authority (in the Navy in Vietnam he was tossed in the brig twice for refusing to obey orders), and he almost always speaks his mind. "He has no filter. He shoots from the hip," says Norton Zinder of Rockefeller University, leader of the effort to map the genome who overcame his initial hostility and joined Celera's advisory board...