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thanks to a contract that required Universal and, later, Vivendi

to compensate them if the parent company’s stock plummeted.

Alpert and Moss were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of

Fame in 2007. They received the President's Merit Award at

the 2008 Grammy Awards.

Gloria Anderson

A graduate of the University of Texas School of Journalism

with an MA from the University of Wisconsin, Anderson has

been a reporter for the Associated Press, an editor at the

Cincinnati Enquirerand the Charlotte Observer, managing editor

of the Knight-Ridder news wire, and managing editor of the

Miami News. She was founding editor and co-publisher of

Miami Todayand editor and publisher of the Kendall Gazettein

suburban Miami. Formerly head of The New York TimesSyndi-

cate, she is now vice president for international and editorial

development in the News Services Division of the Times. She

has served as a Pulitzer Prize juror and as president of the

World Editors Forum.

Anne L. Bryant

Born in 1949 in the Boston area, Bryant has a BA in English

from Simmons College and a doctorate in education from the

University of Massachusetts. She was vice president of the

professional education division of P. M. Haeger & Associates,

a Chicago-based association management firm, from 1974 to

1986. She then became executive director of the American As-
      socia tion of University Women, a national organization that
      promotes equity for women and girls in education and other
      arenas. She is now executive director of the National School
      Boards Association, which represents the concerns of more

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