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While Coordinator of Undergraduate Studies in History Dennis N. Skiotis does believe that "tweed jackets and khakis dominate," he does admit that "a fair number of the faculty wear suits...
Look closely at the old man in ratty tweed, the one who's gazing intently at the pigeons as they peck at crusts on the sidewalk. Is he a brilliant professor emeritus on the verge of a breakthrough in animal biology? A vagrant hoping for a free snack? Or both...
Herrera has fashioned a demure tweed costume with the merest sigh of a skirt and rust-colored crushed-velvet tights -- guaranteed to conquer any corporate board. But she cautions against the indiscriminate use of patterns. "They have to be very special," she says. "Otherwise you look as if you have a terrible disease on your legs...
CLOSE to nothing can stop Nassau County Republicans. Several years ago Nassau's own Boss Tweed, Joseph Margiotta, was convicted and sent to jail. It didn't stop the Republicans. A federal judge recently found that, for years, the party had been forcing government workers to "kickback" 1 percent of their wages to the party. The Republicans have to pay damages, but that hasn't stopped them from completely dominating local government...
...model gazes serenely at the magazine reader from the country-club cool of a Ralph Lauren ad. Dressed impeccably in a tweed jacket, silk scarf and elegant suede gloves, she projects all the dreamy remoteness that is typical of Lauren models, with one notable difference: she is black...