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Soul Support
How does religious faith inform the lives of individual students, and what is its role in campus discourse? Efforts by the Office for Religious Life and a growing interfaith community are giving new meaning to the notion of spirited exchange. By Diane Rogers

 

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Read an excerpt from the new business book by professors Jeffrey Pfeffer, PhD ’72, and Robert I. Sutton.

Read letters about NRA president Sandra Froman, ’71, that did not appear in the print edition of STANFORD.

View additional photos of and hear a song by Wild Oats ’n Honey, the bluegrass band of Don Cooper, ’55.

 

The World According to Azim Premji
When he left Stanford 40 years ago, Azim Premji was returning home to run his father’s modest cooking oil business. Now Wipro is a software giant that is helping redefine India—and the world economy. By Joel McCormick

Love at First Byte
Smitten with his first look at IBM’s blinking box almost 50 years ago, Donald Knuth has devoted his career to elevating the art of programming. Can the man who helped shape computer science finish what he started? By Kara Platoni

The Lolita Question
Vladimir Nabokov came to Stanford in 1941 to teach and write, befriended by a suave and worldly professor who some suggest played a part in the classic Lolita. By Cynthia Haven

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