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Soul Support

Glenn Matsumura

How does religious faith inform the lives of individual students, and what is its role in campus discourse? Efforts by the Office for Religious Life and a growing interfaith community are giving new meaning to the notion of spirited exchange.

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    Love at First Byte

    Smitten with his first look at IBM’s blinking box almost 50 years ago, Donald Knuth has devoted his career to elevating the art of programming. Can the man who helped shape computer science finish what he started?

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    The Lolita Question

    Vladimir Nabokov came to Stanford in 1941 to teach and write, befriended by a suave and worldly professor who some suggest played a part in the classic Lolita.