Word: kaufmann
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...expensive weapons -- along with the Navy's $3 billion Seawolf submarine and the Army's $60 billion Forward Area Air Defense System -- that the Pentagon plans to purchase despite the urgent need for the incoming Bush Administration to bring down the $145 billion federal budget deficit. Defense specialist William Kaufmann of Harvard estimates that the military programs already in the acquisition pipeline could cost more than $900 billion -- three times the entire amount the Pentagon will spend this fiscal year. "The B-2 embodies the defense conundrum," says Gordon Adams, director of Washington's Center on Budget and Policy Priorities...
...show opened with the Harvard Jazz Band playing some laid-back blues, followed by an uninspiring arrangement of the Duke Ellington standard "Perdido." Their rousing rendition of Oscar Peterson's "Hallelujah Time" elicited delighted applause from the audience. Excellent solos were performed by Chris Carter, Anton Schwartz, Mark Kaufmann, and Josh Shedroff...
Berkoff is the first NCAA swimming champion from Harvard since 1961, when Bob Kaufmann, Alan Engleberg, Bill Zentgraf and Bruce Hunter combined to take the 400 freestyle relay. The last individual champion was Hunter, who finished on top in the 50 freestyle...
...Bill Kaufmann is the kind of publisher an author dreams of," says Gardner. "He takes chances -- something no large Eastern firm dares to do. And he won't compromise on binding, paper or typeface. There is no such thing as a 'middle book' to him. All of his books are important, all of his authors are stars...
Therein lies the difference between coasts. As Kaufmann observes, "New York publishers bring out a list twice a year, promote the hell out of the books that appear on it, run with those that are successful and remainder everything else." And along the Pacific? "Out here we put out our lists and stick with them. We don't like to see anything go out of print." Like a practiced surveyor, he knows exactly where to draw the line: "What we and Black Sparrow and North Point offer has perhaps less to do with geography than philosophy. Ten years...