March/April 2009
COVER STORY
Prophet & Loss
Brooksley Born warned that unchecked trading in the credit market could lead to disaster, but power brokers in Washington ignored her. Now we're all paying the price. BY RICK SCHMITT

Play It Again Hal
The Stanford Laptop Orchestra puts the code in coda. BY ERIN BIBA

Late Expectations
...in her 80s, Martha was often surprised by who people thought she was. Fiction by Sally Moser Small