Marian Miner Cook
Athenaeum

P.J. O'Rourke, foreign affairs desk chief, Rolling Stone; author, Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government (1991) and Give War a Chance (1992); "The Politics of Worry: Government vs. the Free Market, Which is Worse?"
 

Piers Bannister, director of research on the death penalty, Amnesty International; author, Fatal Flaws: Innocence and the Death Penalty (1988) and A Life in the Balance: The Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal (2000); "Human Rights and the Death Penalty in the USA: An International Perspective"
 

Conte Candoli, trumpet; Mark Masters, conductor, American Jazz Institute orchestra; Christian Jacob, piano; Gary Foster, saxophone; Bill Perkins, saxophone; Jack Montrose, saxophone; Bob Enevoldsen, trombone; Carl Saunders, trumpet; Joe La Barbera, drums; Putter Smith, bass; Pete Christlieb, saxophone; Les Lovitt, trumpet; Kye Palmer, trumpet; Andy Martin, trombone; Dave Woodley, trombone; Ron Stout, trumpet; "An Evening of Jazz"
 

William Gerberding, president emeritus, University of Washington; author, United States Foreign Policy: Perspectives and Analysis (1966) and co-author, The Radical Left: The Abuse of Discontent (1970); "Reflections on the Conduct of U.S. Foreign Policy: A Forty Year Perspective"
 

Norman Podhoretz, editor at large, Commentary magazine; author, My Love Affair with America: The Cautionary Tale of a Cheerful Conservative (2000) and The Bloody Crossroads: Where Literature and Politics Meet (1986); "Attack on America"
 

Tamara Nameroff, director, Office of Legislative and Government Affairs, American Chemical Society; "Revolutionary Chemistry for Sustainable Development"
 

Maya Ajmera, founder, Global Fund for Children; author, Children from Australia to Zimbabwe: A Photographic Journey Around the World (1997) and co-author, To Be a Kid (1999); "Social Entrepreneurship and Venture Philanthropy: The Evolution of the Global Fund for Children"
 

Robert Pinsky, U.S. poet laureate consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress (1997-2000); professor of English and creative writing, Boston University; author, Jersey Rain (2000) and The Sounds of Poetry (1998); "Favorite Poem Project"
 

Dave Hickey, contributing editor, Art Issues; author, Air Guitar: Essays on Art and Democracy (1997) and The Invisible Dragon: Four Essays on Beauty (1994); "At Home in the Neon: Why Las Vegas Welcomes Serious Art"
 

Tyler Cowen, Holbert G. Harris chair and professor of economics, George Mason University; author, In Praise of Commercial Culture (1998) and What Price Fame? (2000); "Why Commercial Culture is Good for the Arts"
 

Brendan Behan '03; Andrea Fitanides '02; Daniel Rosengard '04; Christina Elmore; Adrienne Hall (moderator); "Claremont Colleges Debate Union: The United States Should Use Force to Make Peace"
 

Vincent Bugliosi, former Los Angeles deputy district attorney; author, Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders (1995) and "The Betrayal of America: How the Supreme Court Undermined the Constitution and Chose Our President" (2001)
 

Harlan Ellison, essayist; screen writer; author, "Repent Harlequin," Said the Ticktockman (1965) and I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream (1967); "The Flight of the Curmudgeon: A Difficult Evening with Harlan Ellison"
 

Daniel Slosberg, fiddle; "Pierre Cruzatte: A Musical Journey on the Lewis and Clark Trail"
 

Margaret Mathies, professor of biology, CMC; "Thailand, Timbuktu, and Tuskegee: Should Research Ethics Stop at the Border?"