September/October 1999

Features

COVER STORY

All Right Now

After 10 years and $250 million, the University closes the book on the Loma Prieta earthquake -- and considers what it learned from the "Pretty Big One."

Thinking Small

The plan is ambitious: every freshman and sophomore should be able to take a seminar with senior faculty. That makes sense -- but previous programs have failed.

You Thought Librarians Were Dull?

CEO, electonic publisher, coffee-bar aficionado: Michael Keller, master of the information universe, proves that you can't judge a book by its cover.

What's the Big Idea?

The upstart inventor of Hotmail shrugs off his amazing success. In the Internet era, he says, what works for two people will click with millions.

On Top of the World

He put Elvis on screen, produced Oscar-winning movies from Jaws to The Sting and is bringing Angela's Ashes to film. Still, David Brown's not as famous as his celebrity wife.

The Way We Were

In a book with hundreds of photos, Susan Wels weaves a chronicle of Stanford from its earliest days to the boom times of the 1990s.

Columns and Departments

FIRST IMPRESSIONS

Campus Chic

PRESIDENT'S COLUMN

'Stone After Stone'

1,000 WORDS

Sandstone and Tulle

ON THE JOB

Census and Sensibilities

With Ken Prewitt: Knocking heads over the national head count

VIRTUAL STANFORD

The Rainmakers of '74

Four Law School classmates rule the Silicon Valley legal biz

SAA CORNER

You Can Go Home Again

Free e-mail, career networking and chat -- all on the expanded website

STUDENT VOICE

Taking on Taboos

A peer health counselor in the trenches

END NOTES

To Kill Two Mockingbirds

A modest bedtime proposal

Farm Report

Shelf Life

AUTHOR, AUTHOR

Bright Leight, Big City

A journeyman playwright jazzes up Broadway

REVIEW

Dangerous Minds

Sick behavior gets a new name

PREFACE

The Nob Hill Mob

A reading group tries writing

Class Notes

Profiles

WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO . . . GEORGE A. SELLECK, '56, MA '57

It's How You Play the Game

Basketball star uses sports to teach life lessons

SPOTLIGHT: RUSS AND BLYTH CARPENTER, '64

The Bhutan Connection

Bhutan voyagers

TURNING POINTS: BRIDGET HYLAK, '87

What I Learned from Luke John

Bridget Hylak says good-bye to her son

SNAPSHOT

Writer's Bloc

The Time of their lives

Farewells

REMEMBERING ARTHUR SCHAWLOW, 1921-1999

'Laser Man': Teacher, Mentor, Nobelist