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Cynthia Arnson, director of the Latin America Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; coeditor, with I. William Zartman, of "Rethinking the Economics of War: The Intersection of Need, Creed, and Greed."

Eric Farnsworth, vice president, Council of the Americas; former senior adviser in the White House office of the Special Envoy for the Americas (1995-98); worked in the State Department on Latin American issues (1990-95)

Andres Oppenheimer, Miami Herald columnist and author of the book "Saving the Americas: Latin America's Dangerous Decline, and What the U.S. Must Do"

Kate Lehrer, author, most recently of "Confessions of a Bigamist."

Adam Bradley, Professor of Literature at Claremont McKenna College, author of "Book of Rhymes: The Poetics of Hip Hop," and co-editor of the forthcoming Modern Library Edition of Ralph Ellison's unfinished novel, "Three Days Before the Shooting."

Lynn Bolles, Professor of Women's Studies at the University of Maryland and author of "We Paid Our Dues," Sister Jamaica,""In the Shadow of the Sun," and My Mother Who Fathered Me and Others."

Joanne Braxton, Cummings Professor of English at the College of William and Mary and editor of "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings: A Casebook."