That light-bulb moment – the literal kind – came to her not long after a move from Cape Town to the little village of Stanford in the afterglow of the Checkers Christmas light campaign.

Two thousand fans piled into their seats at Stanford University's baseball stadium in Palo Alto, filling the grandstands and ...

The three blend into something few Harvard men can under stand, the "Stanford spirit." It is something that makes people cheer their heads off at rallies, wear rooters' caps at football games ...