Latin America's tightrope-walking banker Nancy Birdsall, NANCY BIRDSALL is president of the Center for Global Development in Washington. From 1993 to 1998, she was executive vice president of the Inter-American Development Bank.
A firewall for democracy Andrew Gumbel, ANDREW GUMBEL is a U.S. correspondent for the London newspaper the Independent and author of "Steal This Vote: Dirty Elections and the Rotten History of Democracy in America," just published by Nation Books.