Photo Ops

Time magazine's most irreverent writer has eaten fried chicken with a porn star and become Robert Goulet's pen pal. But his favorite subject? Himself.

by Jesse Oxfeld

A donor's decision to withhold part of his pledge payment puts the ambitious Bio-X program on hold yet his reasons have nothing to do with Stanford.

by Kevin Cool

Stanford remembers the victims, binds its wounds and tries to make sense of it all.

For six summers, students and faculty physicians have been trekking into Papua New Guinea to set up makeshift clinics and train local medics. The villagers greet them with songs praising Stanford in pidgin.

by Uma Sanghvi

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.

by Robert L. Strauss

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.

by Jim Foley

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.

by John Felstiner

K-12 education continues to attract promising new teachers, including dozens each year from Stanford. Keeping them is another matter.

by Christine Foster

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?

by Marisa Milanese

Comic-book writer Kelley Puckett's new Batgirl packs a wallop but hides a shadowy past. Now if he could only figure out who she really is.

by Taylor Antrim