How 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

Pecking 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.

The 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.

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

• Tennis A Championship Finish -- Thanks to Four Freshmen
• Track and Field Hammering Dad's record
• Sports Notebook

NEWS

• Recruiting About That Job -- Does It Include Child Care?
• Retail For 102-Year-Old Bookstore, a Management Makeover
• Facilities Wanted: Cancer Center
• Head of the Class
• Admission An Offer They Can't Refuse
• Computing Swatting the Millennium Bug
• Gathering of the Tribes Native Americans Celebrate their Culture at the Stanford Powwow
• Inquiring Minds
• Careers Bonus Boom
• Ecology Leaping to Conclusions
• Campus Notebook
• Weekends For 4,590 Graduates, a Fond Farm Farewell
• Visitors A Poet Laureate With a Common Touch
• Speakers' Corner
• Technology From Polymers to Power PCs
• Freshmen Leave the Car at Home
• Survey How They Really Spend Their Time
• Bookmarks
• Weekends A Radical Reunion
• Psychiatry Solving the Depression Puzzle
• Medicine Straight from the Heart

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

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

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