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Allistair Witten is an educator from Cape Town, South Africa. He is currently a doctoral student at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a teaching fellow at Harvard's Principals' Center where he assists with the training and development of aspiring principals. Mr. Witten has been an educator for twenty-two years in South Africa's township schools, and spent the last ten of these as school principal. Recently, Witten has focused on extending the functions of schools and making them sites for community development and transformation. His work has contributed to the Safe Schools Program in Cape Town, which adopts a community-oriented approach to engaging problems that negatively affect the functioning of schools.

Robin Lydenberg is the author of *Contemporary Irish Art on the Move: At Home and Abroad with Dorothy Cross*.

Roger Angell has been a contributor to *The New Yorker* since 1944. He became a fiction editor in 1956 and is now a senior editor and staff writer at the magazine. His first contribution to the magazine was a piece of fiction titled "Three Ladies in the Morning". While stationed in the Central Pacific during the Second World War, where he was the managing editor of the Air Force enlisted-man's weekly *TIG Brief,* he wrote an article for *The New Yorker* about a bombing mission to Iwo Jima. After his work on *Brief*, he became a senior editor at *Holiday* magazine, where he remained from 1947 to 1956. Once on the *New Yorker* staff, he continued to contribute stories, casuals, and "Notes and Comment" pieces to the magazine, and began reporting on sports. Since 1962, he has written more than a hundred "Sporting Scene" pieces, mostly about baseball. He continues as one of *The New Yorker*'s fiction editors, editing the stories of John Updike, William Trevor, and Woody Allen. Angell has won a number of awards for his writing, including a George Polk Award for Commentary. He is a long-time ex-officio member of the council of the Authors Guild.

David Broder is a twice-weekly columnist for The *Washington Post*, writing on national politics. Before joining the paper, he was a political reporter at the *Congressional Quarterly*, *The Washington Star* and *The New York Times*. His books include *Democracy Derailed: Initiative Campaigns and the Power of Money* (2000); *Behind the Front Page: A Candid Look at How the News is Made* (1987); *The Party's Over: The Failure of Politics in America* (1972); and *The Republican Establishment: The Present and Future of the G.O.P.* with Stephen Hess (1967). Broder's awards include the White Burkett Miller Presidential Award in 1989, and the 1990 4th Estate Award and 1993 Distinguished Contributions to Journalism Award from the National Press Foundation. He received the Elijah Parrish Lovejoy Award from Colby College in 1990, and was elected to Sigma Delta Chi's Hall of Fame. He won the William Allen White Foundation's award for distinguished achievement in journalism in 1997, and received the National Society of Newspaper Columnists Lifetime Achievement Award in the same year. He won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished commentary in 1973.