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WEEK AHEAD EVENTS FOR TUESDAY, JUNE 11, 2002

Tuesday June 11, 2002

TIME: 9 a.m.

EVENT: HEALTH SYSTEMS CHANGE holds its Seventh Annual Wall Street Comes to Washington.

AGENDA: Panelists will discuss the impact of broad trends shaping the health care system, including rising costs for employers and consumers, managed care's ability to control costs, hospital and physician capacity constraints and the role of pharmaceuticals in health care.

WHO: The speakers are:

Joe France, Director, Equity Research, Credit Suisse First Boston

Roberta Walter Goodman, Managing Director, Merrill Lynch

Joy M. Grossman, Associate Director, Center for Studying Health System Change

Robert Reischauer, President, The Urban Institute

William J. Scanlon, Director, Health Care Issues, U.S. General Accounting Office

Ed Shapoff, Vice President, Goldman Sachs

Ken Weakley, Managing Director, UBS Warburg

Paul B. Ginsburg, President, Center for Studying Health System Change

DATE: June 11, 2002

LOCATION: Grand Hyatt Hotel, 1000 H Street, NW, Washington, D.C.

CONTACT: 202-264-3484

WEB ADDRESS: hschange.org

TIME: 9 a.m.

EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program on Toward a North American Community?

Changing Identities in Canada, Mexico, and the United States.

WHO: The speakers are:

Stephanie Golob, CUNY

Laura Macdonald, Carleton University

Alejandro Moreno, ITAM

The Emerging Relationship between Mexico and Canada

Isabel Studer, FLACSO

Stacey Wilson-Forsberg, FOCAL

DATE: June 11, 2002

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

CONTACT: 202-287-3400

WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu

TIME: 9:30 a.m.

EVENT: ENVIRONMENTAL MEDIA SERVICES holds a press breakfast on Growing Evidence of Risk to Children from Toxic Chemicals.

DATE: June 11, 2002

LOCATION: The Willard Hotel, 1401 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-463-6670

WEB ADDRESS:ems.org

TIME: 9:30 a.m.

EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program on "The Future of Peacekeeping," with Jean-Marie Guehenno, Undersecretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, United Nations.

DATE: June 11, 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: WOMAN'S NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC CLUB presents Ambassador Jonathan Dean, adviser on International Security Issues to the Union of Concerned Scientists.

DATE: June 11, 2002

LOCATION: 1526 New Hampshire Avenue NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-232-7363

WEB ADDRESS: democraticwomen.org

Wednesday, June 12, 2002

TIME: 11 a.m.

EVENT: CATO INSTITUTE holds a policy forum on Digital Copy Protection: Mandate It? Ban It? Or Let the Market Decide?

WHO: The speakers are:

Rick Lane, News Corporation

Jonathan Potter, Digital Media Association

Sarah B. Deutsch, Verizon

Stewart Verdery, Vivendi Universal

Jonathan Zuck, Association for Competitive Technology.

DATE: June 12, 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 The Agreement for the Conservation of Marine Life of the Black and Mediterranean Seas: Regional Approaches with William C.G. Burns, Editor-in-Chief, Journal of International Wildlife Law and Policy, Burlingame, CA, and EES Short-term Scholar.

DATE: June 12, 2002

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

Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-287-3400

WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu

TIME: 3 p.m.

EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program on Reinventing the Alliance: U.S.-Japan Security Relations in an Era of Change.

WHO: The speakers are:

Thomas Berger, Boston University

Takashi Inoguchi, University of Tokyo, Japan

John Ikenberry, Georgetown University

Michael Mastanduno, Dartmouth College

Jitsuo Tsuchiyama, Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan

DATE: June 12, 2002

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

Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-287-3400

WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu

TIME: 5 p.m.

EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a lecture entitled "America's New Aid Program for Afghanistan: Work of the Central Asia Task Force" with Leticia Kelly Butler, director of policy planning at USAID,

DATE: June 12, 2002

LOCATION: 1619 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-663-5626

WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org

Thursday, June 13, 2002

TIME: 8:30 a.m.

EVENT: CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND THE NATIONAL LEGAL CENTER FOR THE PUBLIC INTEREST host former Attorney General of the United States Griffin Bell for a presentation titled "Asbestos Litigation and Judicial Leadership."

DATE: June 13, 2002

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

CONTACT: 202-463-5682

WEB ADDRESS: uschamber.com

TIME: 8:45 a.m.

EVENT: NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION holds a program on The 401(k) Fix: Preventing Future Enrons.

WHO: The speakers are:

Jim Klein, President, American Benefits Council

David Certner, Director of Federal Affairs, AARP

Rick McGahey, Managing Vice President, Abt Associates, Inc.

David John, Research Fellow, The Heritage Foundation

Michael Calabrese, Public Assets Program Director, New America Foundation

Peter Gosselin, Columnist, LA Times

Leon Panetta, Chairman, Center for National Policy

DATE: June 13, 2002

LOCATION: 1630 Connecticut Ave., NW, 7th Floor, Washington, DC

CONTACT: Jud Mathews, 202-986-4901

WEB ADDRESS: newamerica.net

TIME: 11:30 a.m.

EVENT: NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES holds its 2002 annual luncheon program featuring CNN journalist Christiane Amanpour.

DATE: June 13, 2002

LOCATION: Washington Hilton, 1919 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-986-2600

WEB ADDRESS: nationalpartnerships.org

TIME: 12 noon

EVENT: AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE SEMINAR SERIES IN TAX POLICY holds a program on "Will Changing Budget Estimates Improve Policy?"

WHO: The speakers are:

Dan Crippen, Congressional Budget Office

Eric M. Engen, AEI

Norman Orenstein, AEI

Kevin A. Hassett, AEI

DATE: June 13, 2002

LOCATION: 1150 17th Street NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-862-5933

WEB ADDRESS:aei.org

TIME: 1 p.m.

EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB holds its "Luncheon Newsmaker" news program featuring Prime Minister of Grenada, Dr. Keith C. Mitchell, discussing "The Challenge of Free Market Enterprise To Small State Development."

DATE: June 13, 2002

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

CONTACT: 202-662-7500

WEB ADDRESS: npc.press.org

Friday, June 14, 2002

TIME: 9 a.m.

EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program on "The Rwandan Perspective on the Great Lakes Crisis."

WHO: The speakers are:

Patrick Mazimaka, Rwandan Special Envoy to the Great Lakes

Charles Muligande, Rwanda Patriotic Front Secretary-General

Dr. Emmanuel Ndahiro, the President's Advisor on Security.

DATE: June 14, 2002

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

Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-287-3400

WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu

TIME: 9:15 a.m.

EVENT: AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE Health Policy Discussion on"Is More Health Information Better? The Effects of Health Report Cards on Care Providers."

WHO: The speakers are:

David Dranove, the Walter J. McNerney Distinguished Professor of Health Industry Management at Northwestern University,

Daniel Kessler of Stanford University

Mark McClellan, at the time at Stanford University and now at the Council of Economic Advisers

Mark Satterthwaite of Northwestern University

DATE: June 14, 2002

LOCATION: 1150 17th Street NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-862-5933

WEB ADDRESS:aei.org