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We are proud to be associated with these exceptional people, and we are deeply grateful for their contributions, not only to our own publishing objectives but to the larger cause of promoting knowledge in the world today.</p> <table class="edlist" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="5" border="0"> <tr><td valign="top"><a href="doniger.html" class="edlist">Wendy Doniger</a></td> <td valign="top">Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions, University of Chicago</td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" bgcolor="#7BA3C7"><img src="/web/20071212154931im_/http://corporate.britannica.com/board/images/dot.gif" width="1" height="1"></td></tr> <tr><td valign="top"><a href="friedman.html" class="edlist">Benjamin M. 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