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EVENTS ON MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2002

February 26, 2002

TIME: 11 a.m.

EVENT: HERITAGE FOUNDATION holds a program entitled Japan's Economic Woes and its Impact on the Region with Chikahisa Sumi The Embassy of Japan.

DATE: February 26, 2002

LOCATION: 214 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-675-1752

WEB ADDRESS:heritage.org

TIME: 4:30 p.m.

EVENT: CHAMBER OF COMMERCE holds the Clean Air Act Science and Policy Forum

WHO: The speakers are:

William Kovacs, Vice President, Environment, Technology & Regulatory

Affairs, U.S. Chamber of Commerce

Dr. Kenneth Green, Director, Environmental Studies and Deputy Director,

Reason Public Policy Institute

Dr. Steven Hayward, Senior Fellow, Pacific Research Institute

Dr. Harold M. Koenig, Chairman and President, The Annapolis Center

Dr. Anne E. Smith, Vice President, Charles River Associates

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DATE: February 26, 2002

LOCATION: 1615 H Street NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-463-5682

WEB ADDRESS:uschamber.com

TIME: 5 p.m.

EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program on Looking for History: Dispatches From Latin America with Alma Guillermoprieto, journalist and author.

DATE: February 26, 2002

LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW

Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-287-3400

WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu

February 27, 2002

TIME: 9:30 a.m.

EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program featuring President of Mozambique Joaquim Chissano discussing Political Stability, Conflict Resolution and Economic Development in Southern Africa.

DATE: February 27, 2002

LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW

Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-287-3400

WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu

TIME: 5:30 p.m.

EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a lecture entitled "Why Canadian Unity Matters and Why Americans Care."

WHO: The speakers are:

Kent Weaver, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution

Michael Mandelbaum, director of the SAIS American Foreign Policy Program

James Riedel, professor of international economics at SAIS

DATE: February 27, 2002

LOCATION: 1619 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-663-5626

WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org

February 28, 2002

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TIME: 9 a.m.

EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program on Somalia & the War on Terrorism: An Agenda for Reconstruction with Abdi Samatar, Professor, Department of Geography, University of Minnesota.

DATE: February 28, 2002

LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW

Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-287-3400

WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu

TIME: 12:30 p.m.

EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB holds its "Luncheon Newsmaker" news program featuring Al Franken Comedian and Author discussing "Predatory Lending."

DATE: February 28, 2002

LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-662-7500

WEB ADDRESS: npc.press.org

TIME: 12:15 p.m.

EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES Novartis International Journalism Awards Program will screen, "Child Labor in Pakistan," a documentary that explores the exploitation of children in rug factories, garages and brick yards who must help their families survive.

DATE: February 28, 2002

LOCATION: 1619 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-663-5626

WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org

March 1, 2002

TIME: 6 p.m.

EVENT: THE LARRY KING CARDIAC FOUNDATION holds the annual black tie, star-studded "Evening with Larry King and Friends."

AGENDA: This year the foundation will bestow the Larry King Heart Award to Arthur F. Ryan, chairman and CEO of The Prudential Insurance Company of America, and Gabriella E. Morris, president of The Prudential Foundation.

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DATE: March 1, 2002

LOCATION: The Ritz-Carlton hotel at 22nd and M Streets, NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 703/522-0703

TIME: 5:30 p.m.

EVENT: BROOKINGS INSTITUTION holds a book release of "Happiness & Hardship: Opportunity and Insecurity in New Market Economies."

WHO: The speakers are:

Carol Graham, Senior Fellow, Economic Studies, and Co-Director, Center on Social and Economic Dynamics, The Brookings Institution

Stefano Pettinato

Consultant, Inter-American Development Bank; former senior research analyst, The Brookings Institution

Robert E. Litan, Vice President and Director, Economic Studies Program,

The Brookings Institution

Eduardo Aninat, Deputy Managing Director, International Monetary Fund

Nancy Birdsall, President, Center for Global Development

Steven Durlauf, Professor of Economics, University of Wisconsin

DATE: March 1, 2002

LOCATION: Falk Auditorium, 1775 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-797-6105

WEB ADDRESS: brookings.edu

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