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Although it was Elbow Patch and Tweed Day at the committee, the NYT shows that often the academic witnesses were just foils for members' speechifying.
The low point might have to be a Globe story titled "Lisa Kudrow's friendly trip to the hairdresser," complete with a photo of Kudrow--whose expression suggests she may have just realized she's not alone--with her head piled high with silver foils.
One profession's sophistry foils the other's cowardice.
But somehow the farmer foils the little predator's scheme, and he ends up with nothing-neither chicken, nor eggs.
Ed Bryant, R-Tenn., tries to get her to implicate Clinton in subornation of perjury--particularly in a Dec. 17, 1997, phone call and a Dec. 28, 1997, meeting--she repeatedly foils Bryant's plan not with lies but with Clintonesque verbal tricks.