March/April 2009

Features

COVER STORY

Prophet and Loss

As head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Brooksley Born warned a decade ago that lack of oversight in the derivatives market could lead to economic disaster. Why didn’t anyone listen?

Play It Again, Hal

Excavating whistles, beeps, hums and other sounds from his laptop, a Stanford professor is developing a new orchestral landscape, and a playground for a new kind of keyboardist.

Late Expectations

Only the young think romance is only for the young. Sally Moser Small writes this year’s winning entry in the Stanford fiction contest.

Departments

FIRST IMPRESSIONS

She Saw It Coming

PRESIDENT'S COLUMN

Looking for Answers on Energy

Letters to the Editor

1,000 WORDS

Poppy Love

END NOTE

The Bride at Every Funeral

Red All Over

Obamarama: Hail, Stanford, to the Chief

Cardinal Numbers

Eat at Joe's

Sea Turtles Go

Rivals Re-U-Knighted

Farm Report

News

Open to Interpretation

Brain Boosters

A Machine That Can Think

What Good Are the Humanities?

Behind the Scenes

Capital Lessons

News Briefs

Sports

Beyond Compare

No Easy Catch

Olympian Focuses on the Here and Now

Planet Cardinal

ON THE JOB

Life After Football

When pros leave the field

PURSUITS

Sure Plays a Mean Pinball

What makes this wizard so good?

ADVOCACY

Where Slavery Hides

Shutting down slavery

ONLINE ONLY: Follow-up - Iraq Revisited

Showcase

Is Kings the Thing?

King of Kings

Every Flavor in the Paan

Out of India, a family tale

Short Takes

Hellman's Reappraise

Shelf Life

Class Notes

The Dish

Profiles

SNAPSHOT: JUDY KINCAID, '66, MS '78

Seriously Small Space

SPOTLIGHT: SANDRA STEIN, MA '97, PHD '97

A Matter of Principals

SPOTLIGHT: MELINDA MYERS COOK, '85

The Gift of a Lifetime

SPOTLIGHT: MATT MCCAMBRIDGE, '98

Independence on Wheels

Farewells

Master Mediator

Thomas James Massey

Explorer of the Mind

Robert B. Zajonc

War Hero

Robert Prince

The Notes