Word: clothes
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...election is exciting to Harvard students not because of his blackness—it’s exciting because he’s their guy. An unprecedented number of Harvard students worked on Obama’s campaign, and more meaningful still, he is cut of the same cloth as they are. On the campaign trail, he was the candidate who got grief for arugula-eating. He’s the husband in a lawyers-in-love marriage, his family is considering adopting a rescue-dog, and he plays recreational basketball with his white-collar friends. Obama champions Harvard students?...
...metallic-sheen suit strolls slowly down an aisle with a dark-haired woman in fur on his arm. They stop occasionally to examine one of the many Persian carpets arrayed on a wall the length of a tennis court. Against the black cloth of the exhibition hall's walls, the brightly colored handmade silk carpets - in vibrant blues and greens, luscious reds and purples - almost leap off the backdrop...
...Nixon looked especially awkward losing to John F. Kennedy in 1960, and then following him as president eight years later. His White House was no Camelot; Pat Nixon, of the "good old Republican cloth coat," couldn't match Jackie Kennedy, the movie princess swathed in Cassini couture; and Milhous was, in media terms, a throwback. As Kennedy was the first TV president, Nixon was the last Chief Executive of radio. (See pictures of TIME's JFK covers...
...what happens if my husband and I have children? Raising kids is rife with possible in-law-infuriating issues: disposable diapers vs. cloth, breast-feeding vs. the bottle, video games vs. chess club. How will the decisions my husband and I make about our kids affect my relationship with my mother-in-law? "If you have children," she says, "I'll be blaming you for all their problems, not my son." She's only kidding. But for some women, that's one mother-in-law joke that's no laughing matter...
...shirt, brown zip-up hoodie, jeans, and sneakers, the only hint that Charles C. Davis is a biologist comes from the stitching of a plant on his jacket arm. Around his office lies a Chopin CD, a bobblehead tiger (given to him by his mother), and an Indian decorative cloth that his friend gave him when Davis was planning to become an engineer...