Hat Trick

Stanford gets bitten by the start-up bug

Luring a cyberlaw star

The profs behind the Bush-Gore Russia debate

A philosopher for provost

Alzheimer's devastates families. But there can be surprising consolations, as the wife of a Stanford professor discovered.

by Michael Castleman, Dolores Gallagher-Thompson, and Matthew Naythons

Former executive Dana Gioia wants to take poetry public. Down with Ivory Tower elites. Up with bootstrap culture.

by Cynthia Haven

Stanford officials take an unusual -- and subtle -- approach to student alcohol consumption. Our reporter, a Stanford senior, goes inside the campus drinking culture.

by Jim Tankersley

He hunts, surfs and rides a Harley. But Otis Chandler made his name turning his family's Los Angeles Times into a journalistic powerhouse. The paper's sale this spring marked the end of an era.

by Alex Beam

As a Stanford student, Chris Bischof tutored elementary school kids in East Palo Alto. As a graduate, he turned an empty lot and a few portable buildings into the city's first prep school.

by Deborah Claymon