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EVENTS ON THURSDAY, JULY 11, 2002
TIME: All Day
EVENT: RELIGIOUS COALITION FOR REPRODUCTIVE CHOICE holds the National Black Religious Summit on Sexuality themed Breaking the Silence: The Church and Human Sexuality, Everybody's Business.
DATE: July 11, 2002
LOCATION: Howard University School of Divinity, 1400 Shepherd Street NE, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-628-7700
TIME: 9 a.m.
EVENT: SCIENCE COALITION holds the Breakfast of Champions honoring Senators Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-TX, Jeff Bingaman, D-NM, Tom Harkin, D-IA, Pat Roberts, R-KS, and Reps. John Murtha, D-PA and Curt Weldon, R-PA for their support of basic science research.
DATE: July 11, 2002
LOCATION: 325 Russell Senate Office Building, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-879-9369
TIME: 9 a.m.
EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a entitled conference, "Afghanistan After the Loya Jirga."
Zalmay Khalilzad, special assistant to the president for
National Security Affairs and U.S. special envoy to Afghanistan
Marin Strmecki, vice president of the Smith Richardson
Foundation
Sen. Sam Brownback, R-KS (invited)
William Ludde, deputy assistant secretary of Defense for Near East and South Asia (invited)
S. Frederick Starr, chairman of the CACI at SAIS
Ali Jalali, chief of Voice of America's Farsi service (invited)
DATE: July 11, 2002
LOCATION: 1740 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-663-5626
WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org
TIME: 9:30 a.m.
EVENT: THE LEXINGTON INSTITUTE holds a forum to assess the security implications of directed energy weapons.
WHO: The speakers are:
Dr. Robert Cooper, Chief Executive Officer, Atlantic Aerospace Electronics Corp.
Dr. Delores Etter, former Deputy Under Secretary of Defense, Science and Technology
Dr. Daniel Goure, Vice President, Lexington Institute
Representative John Hostettler, House Armed Services Committee
John Luddy, Special Assistant to the Secretary of Defense, Legislative Affairs
Colonel Ellen Pawlikowski, Program Director, Airborne Laser
Dr. Josef Shwartz, Program Manager, Tactical High Energy Laser, TRW Space & Electronics
Dr. Loren Thompson, Chief Operating Officer, Lexington Institute
DATE: July 11, 2002
LOCATION: HC-5, U.S. Capitol, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 703-522-5828
WEB ADDRESS: lexingtoninstitute.org
TIME: 9:30 a.m.
EVENT: ENVIRONMENTAL AND ENERGY STUDY INSTITUTE, HOUSE ENERGY EFFICIENCY AND RENEWABLE ENERGY CAUCUS hold a Congressional briefing on "Battling Fuel Waste in the Military: How Energy Efficiency and Resilient Energy Supplies Can Enhance National Security and Military Preparedness."
WHO: The speakers are:
Amory Lovins, CEO, Rocky Mountain Institute
Vice Admiral Dennis V. McGinn, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations, Warfare Requirements and Programs, U.S. Navy
DATE: July 11, 2002
LOCATION: 2325 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-628-1400
WEB ADDRESS:eesi.org
TIME: 9:45 a.m.
EVENT: CHAMBER OF COMMERCE presents a Spotlight on Federal Budget Discussions entitled "Winning the War on Terrorism and Building Global Stability: The Critical Role of the U.S. International Affairs Budget."
WHO: The speakers are:
Frank Carlucci, Former Secretary of Defense and National Security Advisor
William Cohen, Former Secretary of Defense
George Ingram, President, U.S. Global Leadership Campaign
Marvin Kalb, Director, Washington Office, Kennedy School
Greg Lebedev, Executive Vice President, U.S. Chamber of Commerce
General Brent Scowcroft, Former National Security Advisor
DATE: July 11, 2002
LOCATION: 1615 H Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-463-5682
WEB ADDRESS: uschamber.com
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB holds its "Luncheon Newsmaker" news program featuring Sen. John McCain, R-AZ, discussing corporate governance reform.
DATE: July 11, 2002
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-662-7500
WEB ADDRESS: npc.press.org
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB holds its "Luncheon Newsmaker" news program featuring Donald Carty, Chairman and CEO, American Airlines discussing Securing the Future of Commercial Aviation."
DATE: July 11, 2002
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-662-7500
WEB ADDRESS: npc.press.org
TIME: 2 p.m.
EVENT: SEN. DEBBIE STABENOW, D-MI, AND SEN. TED KENNEDY, hold a news conference calling for a comprehensive prescription drug benefit.
DATE: July 11, 2002
LOCATION: Upper Senate Park, U.S. Capitol, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-224-4822
WEB ADDRESS: sen.gov
TIME: 3:30 p.m.
EVENT: NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION presents Entente Miserable? EU-US Relations in the 21st Century featuring
Nick Wescott, Head of IT Strategy, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, London, Minister-Counsellor, Trade and Transport, British Embassy.
DATE: July 11, 2002
LOCATION: 1630 Connecticut Ave., NW, 7th Floor, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Jud Mathews, 202-986-4901
WEB ADDRESS: newamerica.net
TIME: 4 p.m.
EVENT: CATO INSTITUTE holds a Book Forum for "Dependent on D.C.: The Rise of Federal Control Over the Lives of Ordinary Americans."
WHO: The speakers are:
Author, Charlotte Twight, Boise State University
James P. Pinkerton, Columnist, Newsday.
DATE: July 11, 2002
LOCATION: Cato Institute, 1000 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-789-5229
WEB ADDRESS: cato.org
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: POTOMAC INSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES presents The 2002 Potomac Institute Navigator Awards. The Navigator Awards are so named to reflect that national leadership, particularly in science and technology policy is a never-ending process of finding the way ahead.
AGENDA: Awardees are:
Sen. Pat Roberts, R-KS
Rep. Tom Davis, R-VA
Dr. Rita Colwell, Director of the National Science Foundation
Mr. Gilman Louie, president and chief executive officer of In-Q-Tel
DATE: July 11, 2002
LOCATION: Hyatt Regency - Capitol Hill, 400 New Jersey Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20001
CONTACT: 703-525-0770
WEB ADDRESS: potomacinstitute.org
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: KENNEDY CENTER MILLENIUM STAGE featuring National Theatre of the Deaf in a presentation of Falling on Hearing Ears, a tragi-comedy featuring two clowns -- one deaf and one hearing -- who illuminate the complexity and hilarity involved when their cultures merge.
DATE: July 11, 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 feature:
Arthur Phillips reading from his new novel, Prague an account of four young Americans and one Canadian living in Budapest in the early 1990s.
Jessica Francis Kane's discussing Bending Heaven.. Her stories are shot through with mismatched props of family-with people who ought to understand each other the most, but who are held at odds by that very daunting fact.
DATE: July 11, 2002
LOCATION: 5015 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-364-1919
WEB ADDRESS: politics-prose.com