Features
Photo: Glenn Matsumura
The Toledo Six, a half-dozen sophomores-to-be, hope to outwit Stanford's complicated housing draw and score a plum dorm assignment. They have a plan, but can they beat the house rules?
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Photo: Peter Stember
Why Teach?
K-12 education continues to attract promising new teachers, including dozens each year from Stanford. Keeping them is another matter.
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Greg Spalenka
this dust of words
When English professor John Felstiner stumbled upon a former student's decades-old honors thesis, he set out to renew his acquaintance with the student. What began as a casual inquiry became a monthslong search into a troubled past, with disquieting results.
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Jim Foley
On the Edge of Nowhere
A writer/photographer visited the tiny Canadian town of Wallace Stegner's boyhood, looking for clues to the author's world view. He found a setting both beautiful and austere, and the rugged character that shapes Stegner's stories.
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Photo: Barbara Ries
The Karmic Capitalism of Chip Conley
Starting with the Phoenix, his rock'n'roll hotel that rose from a shabby San Francisco neighborhood, this unorthodox businessman has created a stir in the hospitality industry. But his growing concern is more about people than buildings.
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Bullets, Blood and Ice
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You Knew Stanford Alumni Invented Google, But the Koosh Ball?
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Obituaries
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The Act of Becoming
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Dispatch from Hong Kong: Sam Gellman
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