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...clothes for the evening: baggy, double-kneed Carhartts hanging low, a raglan t-shirt, sneakers and a navy-blue hooded sweatshirt. To this get-up, I add a pair of plaid boxers, a tacky “Bahamas” baseball cap and an athletic bandage wrapped tightly around my chest. The latter compresses my breasts into uncomfortable beef patties. When I remove the bandage three hours later, red lines outline my stomach and sternum. In profile, though, I look convincingly breastless...
Pink high-top Converse sneakers sit next to a pair of patchwork plaid winter overalls and a skinny rubber chicken in the window of Leo’s Place...
...every member of the Fly Club and Hasty Pudding Social Club can be spotted on campus in a red lumberjack-plaid jacket, but Desmond S. Fitzgerald ’04 looks right at home. Despite a distinguished lineage—his grandfather, Robert G. Stone Jr. ’47, served on the Harvard Corporation for 27 years and was its Senior Fellow from 1995 through 2002—Fitzgerald has always felt free to blaze his own path...
...that Rowley became the FBI's public conscience. Two weeks later, she was called back to Washington to testify in the open, her Coke-bottle glasses slipping down her nose, her circa-1985 hand-me-down plaid suit crying to be put back into the closet. She issued damning indictments--agents were drowning in paperwork and lived in fear of offending the higher-ups. "There's a certain pecking order, and it's pretty strong," she said. "It's very rare that someone picks up the phone and calls a rank or two above themselves." And in the next breath...
...days after the hearing, Rowley received a flurry of concerned letters from fashion consultants, hairdressers and ophthalmologists who yearned to make her over. These she disregarded effortlessly. "It wasn't loud!" she says in response to a letter from a designer criticizing her plaid suit. "It was black and gray. How can that be loud?" Rowley's friends have recently succeeded in a longstanding crusade: they persuaded her to replace her oversize glasses, telling her that lightweight lenses would save her time and energy while running because she wouldn't need to keep pushing them...