Features
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Photo: David Burnett
COVER STORY
Front and Center
On the eve of her departure from the Supreme Court, Sandra Day O’Connor talks about her early anxiety as a Stanford student, the struggle to find a job as a lawyer and the challenges of a pathbreaking journey.
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Illustration: Brian Cronin
It's Their Call
As democracy in China struggles for a foothold, communication professor Jim Fishkin’s deliberative polling experiment is pushing a governing principle that is both revolutionary and old-fashioned: ask the people what they want.
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Photo: Glenn Matsumara
Home Movies
Reed Hastings founded Netflix as a response to irritation over video store late fees, and now his company is the one rental chains want to emulate. Having prospered with direct-mail movies, can he lead the way toward on-demand entertainment?
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Photo: Barbara Ries
The Play's the Thing
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How Elephants Establish Who Is in Charge
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Trustee Extraordinaire
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Yurts Become Pop-Up Science Labs
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The Audition Tape that Could
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Dispatch from Colombia: Nick Casey
July 2018