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WEEK AHEAD EVENTS FOR TUESDAY, APRIL 30, 2002
Tuesday April 30, 2002
TIME: 9:30 a.m.
EVENT: BROOKINGS INSTITUTION National Issues Forum entitled "Homeland Security: New Brookings Study Analyzes Bush Administration's Proposals, Recommends Additional Steps."
WHO: The speakers are:
Sen. Fred Thompson, R-TN
James B. Steinberg, Vice President and Director, Foreign Policy Studies
Ivo H. Daalder, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies
Michael E. O'hanlon, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies
Peter R. Orszag, Senior Fellow, Economic Studies
Rep. Jane Harman, D-CA
DATE: April 30, 2002
LOCATION: Falk Auditorium, 1775 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-797-6105
WEB ADDRESS: brookings.edu
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER Director's Forum discussing Our Cities, Our Future with Anthony Williams, Mayor of Washington, DC.
DATE: April 30, 2002
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: CATO INSTITUTE holds a policy forum on "Does Polling Hurt Democracy?" Polling of public opinion has come to dominate our political life. Presidents and members of Congress consult their pollsters just as ancient politicians queried the Oracle of Delphi.
WHO: The speakers are:
Matthew Robinson, Author, Mobocracy: How the Media's Obsession with Polling Twists the News, Alters Elections, and Undermines Democracy
John Zogby, Zogby International
DATE: April 30, 2002
LOCATION: Cato Institute, 1000 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-789-5229
WEB ADDRESS:cato.org
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB holds its "Luncheon Newsmaker" news program featuring Tommy Thompson Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services discussing, "A Little Prevention Won't Kill You."
DATE: April 30, 2002
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-662-7500
WEB ADDRESS: npc.press.org
Wednesday, May 1, 2002
TIME: 9:15 a.m.
EVENT: AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE holds a program on "Are Single-Sex Schools the Road to a Better Education? A Backdrop for Upcoming Revisions in Title IX Guidelines."
AGENDA: Highlights:
9:30 a.m. - Panel I: Academic Research
Cornelius Riordan, Providence College
Rosemary C. Salomone, St. John's University School of Law
Christina Hoff Sommers, AEI
10:45 a.m. - Panel II: Observations from the Front Line: Public Single-Sex Schools in Action
From Young Women's Leadership School (Harlem)
Maureen Grogan, Executive Director of the Foundation
Jazmyne Nichols, 9th grade student
Fatimah Toure, 11th grade student
Tynisha Smalls, 12th grade student
Young Women's Leadership Institute (Chicago) representative
From Brighter Choice Charter Schools for Girls and Boys (Albany):
Arjorie Rush, Board Member
Susan Rollin, Parent
Thomas W. Carroll, Brighter Choice Foundation
DATE: May 1, 2002
LOCATION: 1150 17th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-862-5933
WEB ADDRESS:aei.org
TIME: 11 a.m.
EVENT: CATO INSTITUTE holds a policy forum on A Progress Report on the HDTV Transition."
WHO: The speakers are:
Mark Cuban, HDNet
Thomas Hazlett, Manhattan Institute
Rick Chessen, Federal Communications Commission
David Donovan, Association for Maximum Service Television
Michael Calabrese, New America Foundation; and Richard Wiley, Wiley Rein and Fielding.
DATE: May 1, 2002
LOCATION: Cato Institute, 1000 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-789-5229
WEB ADDRESS:cato.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program on Islam, Europe, the West: Rethinking the Mediterranean Space with Mohammad Arkoun, Professor, Sorbonne University, Paris.
DATE: May 1, 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: RESOURCES FOR THE FUTURE holds a program on "The Effects of Business-to-Consumer ("B2C") E-Commerce on Transportation" with Patricia L. Mokhtarian, University of California, Davis.
DATE: May 1, 2002
LOCATION: 1616 P Street, NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-328-5000
WEB ADDRESS: rff.org
Thursday, May 2, 2002
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: NATIONAL ECONOMIST CLUB holds its luncheon program featuring Don Norman, Director, Financial Councils, Manufacturers Alliance/MAPI, discussing "The Business Outlook for the Manufacturing Sector."
DATE: May 2, 2002
LOCATION: Chinatown Garden, 618 H Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 703-739-9404
WEB ADDRESS: national-economists.org
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB holds its "Luncheon Newsmaker" news program featuring Al Sharpton discussing election reform, voter disenfranchisement and the Madison Ave. Initiative lawsuit.
DATE: May 2, 2002
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-662-7500
WEB ADDRESS: npc.press.org
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS holds a program entitled "Sending Inspectors to Iraq: If They Get In, What Will They Find?"
WHO: The speakers are:
Charles Duelfer, Former Deputy Executive Chairman, U.N. Special Commission UNSCOM
Khidir Hamza, Former lead scientist, Iraqi nuclear weapons program, appointed by Saddam
Hussein (left in 1994); author, Saddam's Bombmaker (2000).
Richard Spertzel, Former Chief, Biological Weapons Team, U.N Special Commission UNSCOM
Kenneth M. Pollack, Director, National Security Studies, Council on Foreign Relations;
author, "Next Stop Baghdad," Foreign Affairs, (March/April 2002).
DATE: May 2, 2002
LOCATION: 1779 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: Marieke Beeuwkes, 212-434-9537
WEB ADDRESS: cft.org
Friday, May 3, 2002
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB holds its "Morning Newsmaker" news program featuring Gennady N. Seleznev, Chairman of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, discussing Russian-American Relations and The Current Political Situation in Russia.
DATE: May 3, 2002
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-662-7500
WEB ADDRESS: npc.press.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: CATO INSTITUTE holds a policy forum on Cutting Corporate Welfare And Other Wasteful Spending. The Bush administration's FY 2003 budget promises federal spending reforms and talks about being tough on programs that don't work. Under these reforms, poor program performance will be deemed "unsatisfactory" and "ineffective."But will such reforms restrain federal spending or shrink the size of government?
WHO: The speakers are:
Stephen Moore, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute
Chris Edwards, Director of Fiscal Policy Studies, Cato Institute
DATE: May 3, 2002
LOCATION: B-369 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-789-5229
WEB ADDRESS:cato.org
