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Who's Who
As
a student reporter for campus radio station KZSU,
PETE WILLIAMS covered
the noisy antiwar protests of the early 1970s. Twenty years
later, he found himself explaining the military's actions as
the Pentagon's chief spokesman during the Gulf War. "I came
away with a healthy respect for military folks," Williams,
'74, says from his office in Washington, D.C., where he now
covers the Supreme Court for NBC. Reviewing
Preventive Defense: A New Security Strategy for
America, he was reminded of the pressure involved in
working for the Pentagon. Before his 1989-93 stint with
Defense, Williams was a spokesman for then-Rep. (later
secretary of defense) Dick Cheney. And for 10 years before
that, he was a television news director in his home state of
Wyoming.
JOAN
O'C. HAMILTON has spent most of her 16-year
career covering the ups and downs of the marketplace for
Business Week. Even so, the grim job outlook for
today's humanities PhDs struck her as perplexing. "The laws
of supply and demand don't seem to apply," she says. Her
story explores the
reasons for the PhD glut and some of the surprising
solutions now on the table. A contributing writer for STANFORD,
Hamilton, '83, has written in these pages about
anti-discrimination crusader Fran Conley and the
University's innovative science curriculum. She lives in
Menlo Park and continues to write for Business Week
as a Silicon Valley columnist.
He
may seem like the ultimate straight arrow, but
JIM TANKERSLEY, '00, has
a troublemaking streak. As an eighth-grader, he wrote an
editorial in the school paper arguing that students might as
well go naked if they couldn't wear hats and coats to their
climate-controlled campus. "It's the one time in my life
I've come close to administrative reprimand," he says. "It
was really cool." A former STANFORD intern,
Tankersley writes in this issue about commencement
and about making
trouble as editor of the Daily.
When
he's making portraits of the famous and successful -- Steven
Spielberg, George Lucas, Lyle Lovett, Sam Donaldson --
photographer ART
STREIBER saves the fawning for the last few
minutes of the shoot. "I have to suppress my awe," says
Streiber, '84, who freelances for magazines like Vanity
Fair, In Style and George. So while photographing
the coaches and athletes for our cover
story, Streiber held off asking for autographs -- but in
the end he got each of them to sign Polaroids. Before
setting up his own studio in 1993, Streiber spent four years
staffing the Milan bureau of W with his wife, writer
and editor Glynis Costin, MA '84. The couple lives in Los
Angeles with daughter Siena, 3, and their 5-year-old
Labrador, Indie.
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