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Remembering the Victims

Honoring five who perished

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The Law School Gets a Makeover

An upgrade for the Law School

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At Student Affairs, the Psychologist Is In

A new face in student affairs

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Doing Something to Help Now'

Faculty get busy

Angel Island: Breaking the Silence
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Angel Island: Breaking the Silence

Detained at a desolate outpost in San Francisco Bay, Chinese immigrants in the early 20th century faced humiliation and despair in an America eager to keep them out. Thanks to a Stanford graduate, their stories are finally being told.

by Diane Rogers

Life of the Party
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Life of the Party

A confidante and friend to leading members of the left's intelligentsia in the 1920s, later a stalwart presence at the Hoover Institution, Ella Wolfe was usually found behind the scenes. Now, her personal papers reveal the remarkable woman few people really knew.

by Jeanene Harlick

Broken Promise
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Broken Promise

Despite the poverty and neglect of his boyhood, one Salvadoran street child aimed high. But as a young ethnographer learned, 11-year-old Noe never had a chance.

by Jocelyn Wiener