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EVENTS ON WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 2002
TIME: 8:30 a.m.
EVENT: CHAMBER OF COMMERCE holds a conference on Latin America Business Outlook.
WHO: The speakers are:
Grant Aldonas, U.S. Dept of Commerce
Ambassador Peter Allgeier, Deputy U.S. Trade Representative
Dr. Eduardo Aninat, International Monetary Fund
Thomas Donohue, U.S. Chamber of Commerce
William Gambrel, BankBoston Colombia
Diego Ramiro Guelar, Argentina's Ambassador to the United States
Dr. Martin Regalia, U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Gustavo Pinto, VII Americas Business Forum
Alexandre Silva, General Electric Latin America
DATE: May 8, 2002
LOCATION: 1615 H Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-463-5682
WEB ADDRESS: uschamber.com
TIME: 8:30 a.m.
EVENT: CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES presents a discussion on the Columbian presidential campaign with Francisco Santos, who is running for vice president on the ticket with Alvaro Uribe.
DATE: May 8, 2002
LOCATION: 1800 K Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Mark Schoeff, 202-775-3242
WEB ADDRESS: csis.org
TIME: 9 a.m.
EVENT: CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION holds the 35th Annual Industry & SBA Business Procurement Opportunity Expo.
AGENDA: Highlights:
9 a.m. - Small business agenda breakfast briefing
Reta Lewis, Vice-President and head of the Chamber's "Access America"
program for minority and women-owned businesses
Giovanni Coratolo, Director of Small Business Policy, U.S. Chamber
Leslie Schweitzer, Senior Trade Advisor, U.S. Chamber
Chris Myers, Director of Congressional & Public Affairs, U.S. Chamber
9:30 a.m. -- Presents a case on the significant legal risks for companies that do business in Mississippi
Thomas J. Donohue, President and CEO, U.S. Chamber of Commerce
James M. Wootton, President; U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform
Bert W. Rein, Senior Partner, Wiley, Rein & Fielding
2 p.m. - Conversation with Michael Dell, Renaissance Hotel, 999 9th Street NW, Washington, DC
6:30 p.m. - Ribbon Presentations, Regional Contract Award Winners, SBA, 409 3rd Street, SW
DATE: May 8, 2002
LOCATION: 1615 H Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-463-5682
WEB ADDRESS: uschamber.com
TIME: 9 a.m.
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program on Washington and the Fall of Portugal's Empire in Africa: A Look Back with Witney W. Schneidman-President of Schneidman & Associates International Professore Piero Gleijeses-Professor of American Foreign Policy, SAIS.
DATE: May 8, 2002
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
TIME: 9 a.m.
EVENT: BROOKINGS INSTITUTION Leadership Forum features Jack Straw, British Foreign Secretary discussing the relationship between Europe and the United States which has been underscored in recent months by the cooperation between European countries and the Bush administration in the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks.
DATE: May 8, 2002
LOCATION: Falk Auditorium, 1775 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-797-6105
WEB ADDRESS: brookings.edu
TIME: 9 a.m.
EVENT: BROOKINGS INSTITUTION holds a symposium on "The Education Gap: Vouchers and Urban Schools."
WHO: The speakers are:
Author, William G. Howell assistant professor of political science, University of Wisconsin Madison
Author, Paul E. Peterson, Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Government & director of the Program on Education Policy and Governance, Harvard University
Caroline Hoxby, professor of economics, Harvard University
Alan B. Kreuger, Bendheim Professor of Economics and Public Policy, Princeton University
Tom Loveless, director of the Brown Center on Education Policy & senior fellow, Governmental Studies, Brookings Institution
DATE: May 8, 2002
LOCATION: Falk Auditorium, 1775 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-797-6105
WEB ADDRESS: brookings.edu
TIME: 9:30 a.m.
EVENT: PROGRAM ON INTERNATIONAL POLICY ATTITUDES holds a program on American attitudes on the conflict in the Middle East.
WHO: The speakers are:
Steven Kull, director of PIPA
Shibley Telhami, the Anwar Sadat Professor for Peace and Development at the University of Maryland, and non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution
Jerome Segal, director of the Jerusalem Project at the Center for International and Security Studies,
DATE: May 8, 2002
LOCATION: First Amendment Lounge, National Press Club
529 14th Street NW, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: Sara Rostolder, 301-656-0348
WEB ADDRESS: hatchergroup.org
TIME: 9:30 a.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL ASSOCAITON OF MANUFACTURERS holds a news conference to discuss a survey by the Ferris State University Career Institute for Education and Workforce Development for three national trade associations revealing a lack of career guidance received by American youth.
WHO: The speakers are:
William Sederburg, President, Ferris State University
Phyllis Eisen, Vice President, Center for Workforce Success, National Association of Manufacturers
Bill Gaskin, President, Precision Metalforming Association Educational Foundation
Matt DiIorio, Executive Director, Associated Equipment Distributors Foundation
DATE: May 8, 2002
LOCATION: National Press Club, 529 14th Street. NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Laura Narvaiz, 202-637-3087
WEB ADDRESS: nam.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: FEDERALIST SOCIETY FOR LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES holds a luncheon program on Energy Security & Environmental Policy featuring C. Boyden Gray, Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering and former White House Counsel to President George H.W. Bush.
DATE: May 8, 2002
LOCATION: National Press Club, 529 14th Street NW, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202-822-8138
WEB ADDRESS: fed-soc.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program on Can the U.S. and Russia Really Cooperate? With Anatol Lieven, Senior Associate, Russia and Eurasia Center, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
DATE: May 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: NATIONAL ECONOMIST CLUB holds its luncheon program featuring Diane Swonk, Chief Economist, Bank One Corporation, who was attending the Sept. 11 NABE convention in the World Trade Center, "Surviving and Thriving in the Wake of September 11." Also, discussing the near-term victories and long-term challenges that the economy now faces, how it will affect monetary and fiscal policy, and what it all means for financial markets.
DATE: May 8, 2002
LOCATION: Chinatown Garden, 618 H St., Washington, DC
CONTACT: 703-739-9404
WEB ADDRESS: national-economists.org
TIME: 12:15 p.m.
EVENT: CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE Center for Defense Information holds a luncheon program on the new book Racing for the Bomb: General Leslie R. Groves, The Manhattan Project's Indispensable Man featuring author Robert S. Norris has been a research associate for almost twenty years at the Natural Resources Defense Council.
DATE: May 8, 2002
LOCATION: CEIP, 1779 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-483-7600
WEB ADDRESS:ceip.org
TIME: 12:15 p.m.
EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES Refugee Policy Forum on "Colombian Internally Displaced Persons: The Invisible Crisis" with Hope Hanlan, director of the Americas bureau of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees.
DATE: May 8, 2002
LOCATION: 1740 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-663-5626
WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org
TIME: 2 p.m.
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER presents Sher Bahadur Deuba Prime Minister of Nepal discussing War on Terrorism: Nepalese Perspectives.
DATE: May 8, 2002
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
TIME: 4 p.m.
EVENT: AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE holds a Book Forum on "Intellectuals and the American Presidency."
WHO: The speakers are:
David Frum, AEI
William Galston, University of Maryland
Robert Goldwin, AEI
William Kristol, Weekly Standard
Tevi Troy, author
Ben J. Wattenberg, AEI
DATE: May 8, 2002
LOCATION: 1150 17th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-862-5933
WEB ADDRESS: aei.org
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: KENNEDY CENTER MILLENIUM STAGE Mary Lou Williams Women in Jazz Festival presents Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer Swing Quartet performing early jazz and western swing.
DATE: May 8, 2002
LOCATION: 2700 F Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-416-8000
WEB ADDRESS: kennedy-center.org
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a reception and seminar on How Strong is the Euro? European Economic and Monetary Policy with a Single Currency featuring Christa Randzio-Plath, Member of the European Parliament, Chair, Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs.
DATE: May 8, 2002
LOCATION: 1717 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-663-5626
WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org
TIME: 7 p.m.
EVENT: POLITICS & PROSE BOOKSTORE presents author Stephen Jay Gould's scientific autobiography entitled The Structure Of Evolutionary Theory, which reveals his understanding of evolutionary theory.
DATE: May 8, 2002
LOCATION: 5015 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-364-1919
WEB ADDRESS: politics-prose.com
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