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Management consultant and private investor. Mr. Fox is President and Chief Executive Officer of Renaissance Brands Ltd. and a director of Hunter Fan Company, The Vitamin Shoppe, Microban International, Totes International, Inc., Young America, Inc. and the Daily Racing Form. Previously he was Senior Vice President of Marketing and Strategy, Compaq Computer Corporation and Chief Marketing Officer and Senior Vice President of Marketing, International Paper Co. He was first elected to the Company s Board of Directors in 2001 and is a Class II director. His term will expire in 2010.

Anthony Rieber has been at Newsday since Aug. 31, 1998 and in his current position since July 4, 2004. Before that he worked for eight years at the NY Daily News, where he was best known for the headline "Clueless Joe" when the Yankees hired Joe Torre. He is also responsible for the lesser-known headline "Yanks Top Tribe in 10."

Arthur has been at Newsday since 1997 and has covered just about everything, from high schools to hockey to football and back again. He's a native of New York City and went to college in Boston. If he weren't a sports writer, his ideal gig would be playing guitar for The Hold Steady. Or maybe writing Hallmark cards.

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Daniel Goodrich is a photographer for Newsday since 1979. He was a member of the Newsday reporting team that received the 1997 Pulitzer Prize in Spot News Reporting for coverage of the crash of TWA Flight 800. He was a member of the Newsday staff nominated as finalists for Breaking News Reporting in 2004 for coverage of the summer blackout that struck New York and most of the Northeast. In 1991 he was a member of the photo staff who were nominated finalists for photographs taken after the crash of Avianca Flight 52. The editors of Newsday have twice nominated him for a Pulitzer Prize for his feature photography. In 1988 when Pope John Paul II made his inaugural visit to the United States, Goodrich was selected as the only photojournalist among 20,000 accredited journalists to travel with, and photograph for publication, the Pope during his private moments. In 1996, he was one of only two American photojournalists invited to Rome to join the Vatican press pool and document the second papal visit to the U.S. Goodrich spent a year following DEA agents investigating drug trafficking from poor neighborhoods in Brooklyn to the poppy fields of Peru. He has documented the daily life of average citizens and celebrities. And he has borne witness to personal triumphs, celebrations and tragedies that show the metropolis of New York as a uniquely human place. Goodrich has taught photography and photojournalism at St. John?s University, New York Institute of Technology and at Nassau County Community College in New York. He holds a master's degree in Journalism from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

Edward Butscher is a highly regarded poet and critic whose works have appeared in numerous literary journals and publications, including The Saturday Review of Literature, Georgia Review, Newsday, and the American Book Review. His biography, Conrad Aiken: Poet of White Horse Vale, published in 1988 by University of Georgia Press, won the Poetry Society of America's Melville Cane Award for that year. He lives in East Hampton, Long Island and Queens, New York with his wife, author and editor Paula Trachtman.

Jason Kindopp is the China analyst at Eurasia Group and a member of the Asia Practice. Jason received a PhD in political science and a master's degree in international affairs from George Washington University. He also holds a graduate certificate in Chinese Studies from Johns Hopkins University and a bachelor's degree from Pacific Union College. Prior to joining the Eurasia Group, Jason was a resident scholar at the National Committee on United States-China Relations. He has also been a visiting scholar at the Sigur Center for Asian Studies and the Brookings Institution, and has taught and studied at Chinese universities in Nanjing and Hefei. Jason has lived and researched extensively in mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. A specialist in state-society relations and political stability in China, Jason's doctoral work focused on threats to social stability in China. He has also edited a major volume examining the political implications of the religious resurgence in China. He is a contributor to Brookings' Northeast Asia Survey, and has been published in a variety of media, including Current History, Newsday, and the Washington Journal of Contemporary China.

Jim Baumbach, formerly Newsday's Yankees beat reporter, was recently promoted to Web sports columnist. His interactive column appears on Newsday.com by noon Monday through Friday. Prior to Baumbach's new assignment, he covered the Yankees for three seasons. A Long Island native, he makes frequent guest appearances on national radio stations. He has worked for Newsday since 1998 and can be reached at jim.baumbach@newsday.com jim.baumbach@newsday.com .

In November of that same year, Mr. Guarascio was offered the position of Crime Prevention Director for the Wilmington Housing Authority. The Authority is a Public Housing Agency consisting of nine tenant-based developments and fourteen-hundred Section 8 Apartments, housing over 4,000 families and 142 employees. In 2001, as the City of Wilmington suffered though a 17% crime increase, Mr. Guarascio effectively lowered violent crime 68 percent within his first six months, then maintained a 36 percent decrease in overall crime within the public housing areas. In addition, he consulted with the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to develop crime prevention, neighborhood watch and domestic violence prevention programs. He has been a guest speaker at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington and Cape Fear Community College. As President and Chief of Police for Inter-Pol Special Police Services, Mr. Guarascio offers his knowledge and proven experience to commercial and residential property owners.

Justin Davidson, Newsday's classical music critic, won the Pulitzer Prize for criticism in 2002. A native of Rome, Davidson worked as a stringer at the Rome bureau of the Associated Press before coming to the US to attend Harvard as a music major. While in college, he worked as a stringer for the Associated Press Boston bureau, studied classical guitar and began a career as a composer. After spending a year on a music fellowship in Paris, Davidson moved to New York City to pursue a doctoral degree in music composition at Columbia University, where he also was instructor and later adjunct professor of music. His compositions, which have been performed in the US, Italy, China and Eastern Europe, have won him grants and awards from the American Academy/ Institute of Arts and Letters, the Mellon Foundation, Meet the Composer, Columbia University and the Fondation des Etats-unis in Paris. He joined the staff of Newsday in 1996. In 2003, he added a second beat to his brief, becoming the paper's first architecture critic.

Rick Walter was a staff writer and news editor at The Los Angeles Times, Newsday, The Hartford Courant, and the Syracuse Herald-Journal and recipient of several Associated Press reporting awards. Most recently he worked for the Times-Mirror magazine group and directed Proudfoot Publishing, a publisher of travel newsletters. In addition to overseeing Writer's Center publications and publicity, he conducts several workshops. His short fiction and essays have been published in numerous journals and magazines.