January/February 2007

Features

COVER STORY

Grace Under Pressure

Trained as a marine scientist, cleric Katharine Jefferts Schori didn’t give her first sermon until 1991. Fifteen years later, she became the first woman chosen to lead the Episcopal Church. Supporters say she’s well versed in bridging differences—and she’ll need to be.

What We Tackled

Hammered by injuries and mounting defeats, members of the 1-11 football team encountered a question none of them expected to face: what’s the point? Senior lineman Josiah Vinson describes the purpose he found in a season of pain.

The Arabian Adventure of Wallace Stegner

Virtually unknown and ignored by most scholars, novelist Stegner’s rarest book was a troubled nonfiction portrait of an oil company’s origins. What does it say about the famous environmentalist’s ethic of conservation?

Master Stroke

Skip Kenney’s swimmers have won 25 straight Pac-10 titles, seven national championships and a passel of Olympic medals. Not bad for a coach who has never swum a race in his life.

Back to the World of Ideas

White House appointee John Taylor spent the past four years rebuilding Iraq’s currency and cutting off terrorist funds. Now he’s back on the Farm with some real-life lessons for his economics students.

Columns

FIRST IMPRESSIONS

Judging by the Cover

END NOTE

The Tagliatelle That Bind

The language of food

Departments

1,000 WORDS

Bombay Company

BEING THERE

The Erg to Compete

The pull of competition

ON THE JOB

Table for 6,000

Catering to thousands

EXAMINED LIFE

A Capital Thinker

Economist Milton Friedman

EXAMINED LIFE

Requiem for a Heavy

Actor Jack Palance, ’49

Red All Over

Farm Report

Showcase

Not Your Mother's Beach Book

Between the sheets

Shooting Stars

Artists at work

Class Notes

Profiles

SPOTLIGHT: JINX MORGAN, '61, AND JUDY PERRY, '61

Recipes That Time Forgot

SPOTLIGHT: LOUISE SHIMMEL, '70

For the Love of Raptors

UNFORGETTABLE TEACHER: GILBERT SORRENTINO

Courting Nonsense

SPOTLIGHT: JEREMY IVERSEN

The Spy Semester

Farewells

Architect of Time

Leonard S. Cutler

She Eavesdropped on Elephants

Lois Elizabeth "Bets" Little-Rasmussen

Yosemite's Friend

Steven Paul Medley