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Photo of Tracye LawyerHow to Build a Dynasty
With seasoned coaches, savvy recruiting and a "market niche" as the top school for smart jocks, Stanford wins its fifth straight Sears Cup, dominating college athletics.

Heptathlete Tracye Lawyer

Image of pigeonsPecking at Crumbs
They can translate Homer and deconstruct Derrida, but today's humanities PhDs face a dismal academic job market. Now some are seeking a life outside the academy.

While You Were Sleeping
Dreams can mystify and entertain, terrify and inspire. But do they have any real importance? A pioneer in sleep research explains the science of slumber.

Photo of Anna Deavere SmithThe Voices of Anna Deavere Smith
She's an uncanny mimic whose one-woman plays explore racial and social tensions. Now, this MacArthur "genius" and associate professor of drama is writing the second act of her career.

How My Start-Up Failed
It was a brilliant gimmick that sold well in Thailand. Surely it would take America by storm -- and make this Business School graduate rich. Wouldn't it?

Success Stories
Fresh out of the creative writing program, a crop of first-time authors is publishing novels and getting "buckets of money." Seven Stegner fellows share their stories.

Farm Report


Photo of Lara Johnson

Graduate Lara Johnson

Digest

  • A Young Feminist Backs an Old Magazine
  • Under a Blazing May Sun . . . Bobsledding Tryouts?
  • Is This Where You Want to Go Today?
  • Cereal Thrillers
  • When Escondido Village was 'the Kibbutz'
  • Bringing Color to the Coaching Ranks

Follow-Up

  • On Female Faculty, Progress Is Slow But Steady
  • For Hoover Archivist, Art Imitates Life

SPORTS

NEWS

Shelf Life


Author, Author Paul Robinson tunes in gay voices

Stanford Bookstore Best-Sellers

Book Review Surviving the new global insecurity

Preface On the trail of the burrito

Book Blurbs

Summer Fiction

  • Evening News, by Marly Swick, '71
  • Harmful Intent, by Baine Kerr, '68
  • The Freshour Cylinders, by Speer Morgan, PhD '72
  • Chocolate Lizards, by Cole Thompson, '87

Columns and Departments


First Impressions
Picturing the Perfect Job

President's Column

Who's Who

Letters to the Editor

1,000 Words

Student Voice No one ever said being editor of the Daily was glamorous

Century at Stanford

On the Job with Agnes Chan A pop star turns to public service

Alma Matters Gerald Lieberman, a consummate Stanford statesman

Cardinal Numbers

Endnotes A hot tub plan that went awry

Class Notes


 

The Notes: Tidings from classmates near and far

Grad Notes

Time Capsule An exam that will live in infamy

Snapshot: Los Trancos Woods Marching Band

Spotlight: David Wu, U.S. congressman

Spotlight: Kari Novatney, fun engineer

Obituaries

Remembering Professor Charles Lyons