Word: coxing
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Life is getting lonely for Tom Cox. Many of Cox's friends and neighbors in the heavily guarded housing complex where he lives in Riyadh either have left or are thinking of leaving. His boss, a Saudi American, packed up a few months ago after his family was injured in an attack. Other colleagues have taken extended sabbaticals. The cocktail parties that Cox, 73, used to frequent rarely happen anymore. Those Westerners, who, like Cox, choose to stay in Saudi Arabia despite the escalating threats have no illusions about the dangers they now face. "I intend to stay here," Cox...
...others, life has become a daily series of calculations. Going to the store usually takes some thought--should you go to the supermarket or the little store inside your complex? Cox says he frequents only malls he knows are owned by one of the Saudi princes, "because they have the money to pay for security." He attends parties only rarely: "I used to go out all the time. Not anymore. I just go from home to work." Most of the time, he prefers to stay home, either finishing work or watching movies. "My social life is zilch," he says...
...Jones’ career wasn’t just limited to the “Sneaker Squad” or his position as watch commander of the Harvard Medical School area. He also acted as a bodyguard to several dignitaries, including recently-deceased Loeb University professor emeritus Archibald Cox ’34 while he acted as special prosecutor in the Watergate scandal, Britain’s Prince Charles, members of the Kennedy family and presidents Gerald Ford and George H.W. Bush...
Died. Archibald Cox, 92, special prosecutor whose insistence that Richard Nixon hand over tapes of Oval Office conversations for the Watergate investigation got him fired in the Saturday Night Massacre in 1973; in Brooksville, Maine. A Harvard professor and former adviser to President Kennedy, he lasted five months as chief of the investigation, which eventually led to Nixon's resignation...
Robert H. Mnookin ’64, who is Williston professor of law—a chair Cox once held—said of his predecessor, “I think he certainly represents the ideals that we at HLS should aspire to—gifted, public-spirited, extremely hardworking and idealistic in a pragmatic...