Word: oxford
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...happened, Bailey had a friend in Texas named Patrick Oxford, managing partner of an old Houston law firm called Bracewell & Patterson. And Oxford had a problem. He could see that the future was bleak for regional law firms in a globalizing economy. Expanding the firm, especially into Manhattan, had become a matter of life and death, Oxford later recalled...
...Here's where the politics comes in: Oxford is a well-wired Republican who raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for the Bush campaigns. Oxford said at the time the deal was struck that it wouldn't be a success until the firm had 100 lawyers in New York. Giuliani is leaving the partnership well short of that goal. But Oxford must not be too unhappy. He is the chairman of Giuliani's exploratory committee...
...Officers were dispatched to 1 Oxford Street to a report that a suspicious individual climbed the fence and entered the construction site. They arrived, located the individual, and a field interview was conducted. The individual was run for wants/warrants with negative results. Officers reported the individual is a worker in the area and has authorization to be there...
...Gerson’s parlance, Oxford represents “an incredible opportunity to jump off the treadmill for a while to do something that is not necessarily a shortcut to some career goal”—an opportunity that is, clearly, easily wasted. “It’s much more than money,” said Casey N. Cep ’07, who will read theology on the Rhodes next year. “It’s a group of people saying they have confidence in you as a person. They...
Ryan R. Thoreson ’07, who will study social anthropology at Oxford next year, recounted the experience of an older Harvard friend, who, after advancing to the Rhodes’ interview round, did not win the fellowship: “She said that I should apply for fellowships simply for the opportunity to write a personal statement, which forces you to figure out what you want to do, something you don’t get an opportunity to do very often at Harvard. I think I would have been glad if I had applied regardless of the outcome...