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USAT has a brief front-page blurb and the WP has a more detailed piece based on the report in this week's Time that the FBI and State Department are investigating the theft, during the height of the Iraq crisis, by a man in a brown tweed jacket, of top secret documents from a secure State Dept. office just down the hall from Albright's.
The other day I put my hand on two full, ankle-length skirts at the back of my closet, one tweed and one black velvet, with the idea of finally getting rid of them.
What I hadn't realized when I posted this question was that two different types of responses were possible--those that mock the idiocy of Warren Weideman for proposing truly stupid movies, frequently involving an abstruse philosopher, and those that mock Showtime for making truly stupid movies, frequently involving Shannon Tweed with her shirt off.
In 1993, the Ohio State Bar Association received the prestigious Harrison Tweed Award from the ABA in recognition of its efforts to help expand funding for legal services.
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.