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EVENTS ON FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 2002
TIME: All Day
EVENT: CONSUMER BANKERS ASSOCIATION holds its 2002 Subprime lending forum themed Abusive Practices: Seeking Solutions.
AGENDA: Highlights:
9:30 a.m. - Patricia L. Alberto, Senior Vice President, Compliance & Operational Risk Management, JPMorganChase
Expanding Financial Literacy
Steven I. Zeisel, Esq., Vice President & Senior Counsel, consumer Bankers Association
12:30 p.m. -- The Luncheon speaker is Sheila C. Bair, Assistant Secretary for Financial Institutions, U.S. Department of Treasury
DATE: March 8, 2002
LOCATION: Marriott, Crystal Gateway, 1700 Jefferson Davis Highway, Arlington, VA
CONTACT: 703-276-3878.
WEB ADDRESS:cbanet.org
TIME: All Day
EVENT: NATIONAL LEAGUE OF CITIES holds its Congressional City Conference, which is designed to inform delegates of key aspects of federal issues and prepare them to discuss these issues with their Congressional delegations.
DATE: March 8, 2002
LOCATION: Washington Hilton and Towers, 1919 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-626-3003
WEB ADDRESS: nlc.org
TIME: 8:30 p.m.
EVENT: CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE International Migration Policy Program holds a program featuring Arthur Eugene Dewey Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees, and Migration discussing "The US Refugee Program: At Home and Abroad."
DATE: March 8, 2002
LOCATION: 1400 16th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-328-5000
WEB ADDRESS: rff.org
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB holds its "Morning Newsmaker" news program discussing a National Memorial Planned for the Pennsylvania Crash Site of Flight 93.
WHO: The speakers are:
Rep. John Murtha, D-PA
Somerset County Commissioner James Marker
DATE: March 8, 2002
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-662-7500
WEB ADDRESS: npc.press.org
TIME: 11 a.m.
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a book launch for Slobodan Milosevic: From Kosovo to the Hague with Louis Sell, former U.S. Department of State and International Crisis Group expert on the Balkans, and former Wilson Center Fellow.
DATE: March 8, 2002
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
TIME: 11 a.m.
EVENT: GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY features Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia presenting a keynote address at a dedication ceremony for The George Washington University Law School's new "cornerstone" addition, located at 700 20th Street, NW.
DATE: March 8, 2002
LOCATION: Media & Public Affairs Building, Jack Morton Auditorium, 805 21st Street, NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Matthew Nehmer, 202-994-6467
WEB ADDRESS:gwu.edu
TIME: 11 a.m.
EVENT: HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN holds a news conference releasing its 2002 State of the Family report.
WHO: The HRC speakers are:
Elizabeth Birch, executive director, HRC
Winnie Stachelberg
Seth Kilbourne
Kim Mills
Lisa Bennett
DATE: March 8, 2002
LOCATION: 325 Russell Office Building, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-789-2300
WEB ADDRESS:hrc.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a lecture entitled "The Demand for Trafficked Women and Children: A Global Perspective" with Donna Hughes, a professor at the University of Rhode Island.
DATE: March 8, 2002
LOCATION: 1717 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-663-5626
WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a lecture entitled "The New American Relationship with Uzbekistan" with John Edward Herbst, U.S. ambassador to Uzbekistan.
DATE: March 8, 2002
LOCATION: 1619 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-663-5626
WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program on The Making and Unmaking of the U.S.-Saudi Special Relationship with Robert Vitalis, University of Pennsylvania.
DATE: March 8, 2002
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: PROGRESS AND FREEDOM FOUNDATION holds a seminar on Enron & Deregulation.
WHO: The speakers are:
Thomas M. Lenard, PFF
Fred Smith, Competitive Enterprise Institute
Peter Van Doren, the CATO Institute
Jimmy Glotfelty, U.S. Department of Energy
Howard Useem, U.S. Senate Committee on Energy & Natural Resources.
DATE: March 8, 2002
LOCATION: B-369 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-289-8928
WEB ADDRESS:pff.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: THE UN INFORMATION CENTRE PRESENTS holds a program on "Women in Afghanistan: What's happening now?"
WHO: The speakers are:
Lois Raimondo, Washington Post
Farida Aziz, Afghan Woman
Marina Ottoway, Carnegie Endowment
Joyce Mends-Cole, Senior Coordinator for Women, UNHCR
Donatella Lorch, Newsweek
DATE: March 8, 2002
LOCATION: Mayflower Hotel, 1127 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-454-2108
TIME: 12:15 p.m.
EVENT: ALLIANCE FOR HEALTH REFORM holds a briefing on Health Care and the Budget: A Briefing on the Basics of the Budget Process and the Health Issues It Affects
WHO: The speakers are:
Steve Lieberman, executive associate director at the Congressional Budget Office
Bill Hoagland, minority staff director of the Senate Budget Committee
Bob Greenstein, head of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Sen. Bill Frist, Alliance vice chairman
DATE: March 8, 2002
LOCATION: Monarch Hotel, 2401 M Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-789-2300
WEB ADDRESS:allhealth
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION Brownbag Lunch on Unwired Security: Do We Need a National Emergency Wireless Network?
WHO: The speakers are:
Reed E. Hundt, Senior Advisor, McKinsey & Co. and Former Chairman, FCC
Thomas E. Wheeler, President and CEO, Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association
Robert M. Gurss, Counsel, APCO and Partner at Shook, Hardy & Bacon
DATE: March 8, 2002
LOCATION: 1630 Connecticut Ave., NW, 7th Floor, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Jud Mathews, 202-986-4901
WEB ADDRESS: newamerica.net
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: KENNEDY CENTER MILLENIUM STAGE presents Dancer and choreographer Laura Schandelmeier pre viewing her latest creations: "Holiday Suite," and "Mademoiselle."
DATE: March 8, 2002
LOCATION: 2700 F Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-416-8000
WEB ADDRESS: kennedy-center.org
TIME: 7 p.m.
EVENT: POLITICS & PROSE BOOKSTORE features Dr. Jonathan Kaplan who has spent his life as a field doctor around the world, from South Africa, Eritrea and Burma, to the Amazon and Northern Iraq after the Gulf War discussing and signing copies of The Dressing Station: A Surgeon's Chronicle of War and Medicine.
DATE: March 8, 2002
LOCATION: 5015 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-364-1919
WEB ADDRESS: politics-prose.com
