Navigating city streets with the wind in your hair may come in the form of a Mustang in Los Angeles, a Porsche in Berlin or a Ferrari in Rome. But in India, the convertible is replaced by a half-size, three-wheeled taxi that many say offers a fuller travel experience than any roof-down car: the auto-rickshaw.

The Iraqi National Library and Archives has asked Stanford’s Hoover Institution to return Baath Party records acquired in early 2008 on a five-year loan — a request Hoover is resisting because it doesn’t deem security in Baghdad sufficient to ensure the documents’ security.

Guang-il Jung’s was just one of many tales of human rights abuses discussed at a conference held over the weekend at Stanford on “The North Korean Crisis: Human Stories & Taking Action.”

Zalmay Khalilzad, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Iraq and Afghanistan, delivered yesterday a wide-ranging talk entitled “The Struggle for the Broader Middle East: Where We Are and Where We Need to Go.”

The search committee for candidates to replace Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education John Bravman met with a small group of students Tuesday evening as it prepares to provide Provost John Etchemendy a shortlist of candidates by Commencement, just over a month from now.

When Washington looks for advice on nuclear deterrence, disarmament and nonproliferation, it knows it can look to Stanford.

Ambassador Henry Crumpton, the State Department’s coordinator for counterterrorism from 2005 to 2007, addressed more than 50 students and community members Monday night on the relationship between the United States and the Muslim world, trying to take a unified approach to the topic but eventually acceding to discuss the current — and widely different — issues in Iraq, Afghanistan and Iran.

“The risk that a child born today will not live out his or her natural lifetime is 10 percent,” Hellman said, citing his own analysis of nuclear risk while seated at his kitchen table…

For those looking for that new musical direction, disappointment may quickly set in.

Wednesday evening, Steele joined Law School Dean Larry Kramer, emeritus history Prof. James Sheehan ‘58 and Hoover senior fellow Martin Anderson, for a roundtable discussion on the history and present feasibility of the military draft. CISAC consulting Prof. Phil Taubman ‘70 moderated.