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Published August 31, 2004 at 5:00 AM PDT

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• Glenn Schaeffer, President of the Mandalay Resort Group, and Founder of the International Institute of Modern Letters at UNLV
• Wole Soyinka, Nobel Prize-winning playwright from Nigeria, former President of the International Parliament of Writers, and one of the progenitors of the City of Asylum program in Las Vegas
• Amber Withycombe, Associate Director of the International Institute of Modern Letters at UNLV
• Russell Banks, widely translated novelist and short story writer, and President of the International Parliament of Writers
• Christopher Merrill, Author and Director of the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa