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...earthquake that rocked San Francisco almost two years ago did $160 million worth of damage to nearby Stanford University. This week tremors of a different sort threaten to rattle the elite Palo Alto-based institution -- and dent its coffers by as much as $200 million. On Wednesday, Michigan Democrat John Dingell, chairman of a House investigative subcommittee, is to hold a daylong hearing on allegations that throughout the 1980s, Stanford routinely overcharged taxpayers for millions of dollars in research-related expenses...
...Harvard administrators are playing it cool. Back in Palo Alto, however, the ongoing federal inquiry has left Stanford a row of red faces. According to that investigation, U.S. taxpayers have helped buy flowers and cabinets for the home of Stanford President Donald Kennedy '52 and cover the depreciation on a 72-foot yacht (complete with jacuzzi), among other perks...
While the debate over federal funding continues, congressional cutbacks and belt tightening has brought the GAO to Palo Alto, Calif. and, recently, to Cambridge...
...COMPLETE DEAN BENEDETTI RECORDINGS OF CHARLIE PARKER (Mosaic). Alto saxophonist Charlie Parker almost single-handedly changed the course of jazz history with his lightning-fingered improvisations, rhythmic subtleties and harmonic genius -- not to mention the fast-living, drug-shooting life-style that led to his death at 34 and was, unfortunately, widely imitated by his contemporaries. One such was Dean Benedetti, a West Coast jazzman who copied Bird in every way he could, down to and including his own premature death at 34. But Benedetti left behind an extraordinary legacy: a cache of impromptu recordings that he had made...
...HARGROVE: DIAMOND IN THE ROUGH (Novus). Watch out, Wynton! This 20-year- old trumpet phenomenon from Waco, Texas, is nipping at your heels with a horn full of soul and fire. A well-crafted album, featuring penetrating solo work from alto-saxman Antonio Hart and three strong compositions by pianist Geoffrey Keezer...