Features
What It Takes
Last year, undergraduate admissions officers spent more than 10,000 hours evaluating nearly 39,000 applicants. How do they choose whom to accept when so many are so deserving?
Make It Stop
Researchers are beginning to unravel the sources of chronic pain, and develop treatments for mysterious, maddening conditions.
'Truth Was Our Only Client'
Richard Mosk was a young lawyer serving in the California Air National Guard when he was summoned to help sort out who killed JFK. In this first-person account, he describes his foray into Lee Harvey Oswald's life, and what he learned.
Flight Risk?
Nine years ago, and without explanation, graduate student Rahinah Ibrahim showed up on the U.S. governments no-fly list, which barred her from re-entering the country. What happens when personal rights and the war on terror collide?
Spotlight
Farm Report
Start-ups Get New Boost
University opens investment fund
Two Nobels
Stanford wins big
Departments
Class Notes
Farewells
U.N. Officer and Supporter of Tibetan People
Ruth Elizabeth Sutherlin Finney Hayward, '61
Former Head of Selective Service
Curtis W. Tarr, '48, PhD '62
Fiscal Steward
Herbert Monroe Allison Jr., MBA '71
Online Exclusives
Commemorative Football Covers
Four new Stanford magazine covers celebrate four bowl appearances.
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The Case Against Affirmative Action