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Alfred Crosby, professor emeritus of American studies, University of Texas; author, The Measure of Reality: Quantification in Western Europe, 1250-1600 (1997) and America's Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918 (199…

Robert Pinsky, U.S. poet laureate consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress (1997-2000); professor of creative writing, Boston University; author, Jersey Rain (2000) and The Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems…

David Hull, Dressler professor of philosophy, Northwestern University; author, Science as a Process: An Evolutionary Account of the Social and Conceptual Development of Science (1988) and Darwin and His Critics: The Rec…

Timothy Colton, Morris and Anna Feldberg professor of government and Russian studies, director, Davis Center for Russian Studies, Harvard University; author, Transitional Citizens: Voters and What Influences Them in the…

Richard Lewontin, Alexander Agassiz research professor of biology, Harvard University; author, The Triple Helix (2000) and It Ain't Necessarily So: The Dream of the Human Genome and Other Illusions (2000); "Genomemania"…

Jennifer Warnes, vocalist; Billy Watts, guitar; Skip Edwards, keyboard; David Jackson, bass; Lee Spah, drums; Hani Nassen, percussion; Matt Cartsonis and Chris Darrell, mandolin; "An Evening with Jennifer Warnes"  

Barry Menikoff, professor of English literature, University of Hawaii; editor, forthcoming Kidnapped; Or the Lad with the Silver Button (2001) and Tales from the Prince of Storytellers (1993); "F. Scott Fitzgerald and H…

Steven Pinker, professor of cognitive science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; author, How the Mind Works (1999) and The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (2000); "How the Mind Works: Words and Rul…

Robert Goldich '71, national defense specialist, Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress; "No Such Thing as Total Civilian Control of the Military" (12:15 p.m.)  

Robert George, McCormick professor of jurisprudence, Princeton University; author, Making Men Moral: Civil Liberties and Public Morality (1995) and In Defense of Natural Law (1999); "Civil Liberties and Public Morality"…