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EVENTS ON WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2002
TIME: All Day
EVENT: WORLD BANK AND INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND hold the annual meeting. Because the Annual Meetings bring such a large number of member country officials together, they provide opportunities for consultations large and small, formal and informal. Numerous seminars are held in conjunction with the meetings, including seminars conducted by staff members for members of the press.
AGENDA: Highlight:
9 a.m. - World Economic Outlook press conference by Kenneth Rogoff, Counsellor and Director, Research Department, IMF Headquarters, Room B-702
DATE: September 25, 2002
LOCATION: World Bank, 1818 H Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-473-1000
WEB ADDRESS:worldbank.org
TIME: All Day
EVENT: WORLD VISION AND THE WORLD BANK holds a conference on Democratizing Development: Deepening Social Accountability through Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers.
AGENDA: The conference seeks to further explore the potential of poverty reduction
strategy papers, by focusing on their capacity to reduce corruption, improve government efficiency, enhance the rule of law, and foster respect for human rights.
DATE: September 25, 2002
LOCATION: Room JB1-080, 701 18th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Marianne Stigset, 202-458-4897
WEB ADDRESS: worldbank.org
TIME: All Day
EVENT: NATIONAL RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION holds its annual Public Affairs Conference.
AGENDA: Highlight:
8:30 a.m. -- Breakfast with journalist Brit Hume
DATE: September 25, 2002
LOCATION: J.W. Marriott Hotel, 1331 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Tom Foulkes, 202-331-5902
WEB ADDRESS: restaurant.org/paconference/index.cfm
TIME: All Day
EVENT: NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FEDERAL CREDIT UNIONS holds its Congressional Caucus.
AGENDA: Highlights:
8:35 a.m. - Rep. Mike Oxley, R-OH
9 a.m. - Rep. Paul Kanjorski, D-PA
9:30 a.m. - Rep. Donald Manzullo, R-IL
10 a.m. - Rep. Darlene Hooley, D-OR
10:30 a.m. - Jim Mills, NAFCU Chair
Fred Becker, NAFCU CEO and President
DATE: September 25, 2002
LOCATION: Grant Hyatt, 1000 H Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: John H. Zimmerman, 202- 522-4770 x291
WEB ADDRESS: nafcu.org
TIME: All Day
EVENT: CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a program on China In Transition: Behind The Scenes.
AGENDA: Highlights:
8:30 a.m. - Registration and Light Breakfast
9 a.m. - Welcome and Introduction
John Hamre, CSIS president and CEO, and John Holden, president,
National Committee on U.S.-China Relations
9:20 a.m. - A Historical Perspective on China's Domestic Transitions
Roderick MacFarquhar, Harvard University
10:30 a.m. - Challenges to Legitimacy: The Party in Transition
Chair: Ambassador James Sasser
Joseph Fewsmith, Boston University
Li Cheng, Woodrow Wilson Center and Hamilton College
Minxin Pei, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
1:30 p.m. - Income, Population and Health: Welfare Society in Transition
Chair: Bates Gill, CSIS
Deborah Davis, Yale University
Huang Yanzhong, Grand Valley State University
Joan Kaufman, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
2:45 p.m. - Off the Beaten Track: Rural China in Transition
John Holden, National Committee on United States-China Relations
Thomas Bernstein, Columbia University
Brian Schwarzwalder, Rural Development Institute
Liu Yawei, Carter Center, Emory University
4 p.m. -- The Changing Workplace: The Economy in Transition
Chair: Pieter Bottelier, Johns Hopkins SAIS
Kellee Tsai, Johns Hopkins University
Stoyan Tenev, International Finance Corporation
James McGregor, Vermilion Ventures
5:15 p.m. - Closing Remarks
DATE: September 25, 2002
LOCATION: 106, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Mark Schoeff, 202-775-3242
WEB ADDRESS:csis.org
TIME: 7:30 a.m.
EVENT: NORTHERN VIRGINIA TECHNOLOGY COUCIL holds program on Emerging Business Network: The Government Market - Myths and Realities with Robert Silverman, co-founder and CEO of ReachSolutions, LLC, a management consulting firm focused specifically on helping companies build highly successful and sustainable businesses in the unique government market, discuss the myths and realities of building a successful, sustainable government-focused business.
DATE: September 25, 2002
LOCATION: The Ritz-Carlton, 1700 Tysons Boulevard, McLean, VA
CONTACT: 703-904-7878
WEB ADDRESS:nvtc.org
TIME: 9 a.m.
EVENT: HERITAGE FOUNDATION holds a program entitled "The Future of a Post-Saddam Iraq: A Blueprint for American Involvement."
AGENDA: Highlights:
9 a.m. - Military Involvement and Allied Support
Victor D. Hanson, California State University, Fresno
John O'Sullivan, United Press International
David Rivkin, Baker & Hostetler, LLP
Baker Spring, The Heritage Foundation
Government Reconstruction
Ahmed Chalabi, Iraqi National Congress
Marc Gerecht, American Enterprise Institute
John Hulsman, The Heritage Foundation
James Phillips, The Heritage Foundation
Patrick Clawson, The Washington Institute
Daniel Yergin, Cambridge Energy Associates
Ariel Cohen, The Heritage Foundation
Jerry O'Driscoll, The Heritage Foundation
Helle Dale, Davis Institute for International Studies
DATE: September 25, 2002
LOCATION: 214 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-675-1752
WEB ADDRESS: heritage.org
TIME: 9:30 a.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL MEDICAL ASSOCIATION holds a briefing to discuss the racial divide in Pharmaceutical care.
DATE: September 25, 2002
LOCATION: 328 Russell Office Building, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-326-1726
WEB ADDRESS: nmanet.org
TIME: 9:30 a.m.
EVENT: HEALTH SYSTEM CHANGE holds briefings to discuss why are health care costs rising so rapidly.
AGENDA: Underlying health care spending drives premium trends, and a new Health Affairs' article scheduled for provides hard numbers on increased spending in 2001 for prescription drugs, physician services and inpatient and outpatient hospital care for privately insured people. The study also offers an early look at 2002 health care cost trends and the role of aging baby boomers in health care cost trends.
WHO: The speakers are:
Paul B. Ginsburg, Ph.D., HSC president
Bradley C. Strunk, HSC health research analyst
Carmela Coyle, senior vice president for policy, American Hospital Association
G. Lawrence Atkins, president, Health Policy Analysts Inc
DATE: September 25, 2002
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-264-3484
WEB ADDRESS: hschange.org
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: UNITED SENIORS holds a news conference releasing the results of its "National Survey of Senior Voters"
WHO: The speakers are:
Art Linkletter, Entertainer and Author
Charles Jarvis, United Seniors Association
John McLaughlin, McLaughlin & Associates
DATE: September 25, 2002
LOCATION: H-137 U.S. Capitol, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 703-739-5920
WEB ADDRESS: unitedseniors.org
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: CENTER FOR ECONOMIC JUSTICE holds the World Bank Boycott briefing
WHO: The speakers are:
Father San Deboe, Conference of Major Superior of men
Dr. Vineeta Gupta, Insaaf International
Demba Dembele, Forum for African Alternatives
Francis Bartelt, Wisconsin Fair Trade Campaign
DATE: September 25, 2002
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-393-6665
WEB ADDRESS: ecjustice.net
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: CAMPAIGN FOR AMERICA'S FUTURE holds a news conference to discuss the "pension reform" legislation passed recently by the House, with the support of almost all Republicans, contains provisions that would encourage corporations to renege on their obligations to provide pension coverage to low-wage and middle-level employees, while still providing lavish pension benefits to their highest paid employees.
WHO: The speakers are:
Sen. Jon Corzine, D-NJ
Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-MA
Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-CA
Cong. Richard Gephardt, House Minority Leader
John J. Sweeney, President, AFL-CIO
Roger Hickey, Co-Director, Campaign for America's Future
Karen Friedman, Director of Policy Strategies, Pension Rights Center
Former Enron employees
DATE: September 25, 2002
LOCATION: 138 Dirksen Office Building, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Tasha Spindler, 202 955-5665
WEB ADDRESS: ourfuture.org
TIME: 11 a.m.
EVENT: CHAMBER OF COMMERCE hosts the kick-off for online public access to the federal rulemaking process, as part of President Bush's E-Government initiative.
WHO: The speakers are:
OMB Director Mitch Daniels
EPA Administrator Christine Todd Whitman
Associate Director for Information Technology and E-Government Mark Forman
National Archivist John Carlin
Suzanne Clark, U.S. Chamber Chief of Staff
Lowell Miles, Miles Composite and Fiberglass, Inc.
DATE: September 25, 2002
LOCATION: 1615 H Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-463-5682
WEB ADDRESS:uschamber.com
TIME: 11 a.m.
EVENT: HAITI REBORN/QUIXOTE CENTER holds the Let Haiti Live Demonstration to protest withholding of humanitarian aid. Withholding this money earmarked for health, drinking water, basic education and rural roads is having disastrous effect on the Haitian people.
DATE: September 25, 2002
LOCATION: in front of 2201 C Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 301-699-0042
WEB ADDRESS: haitiborn.org
TIME: 11 a.m.
EVENT: CENTER ON BUDGET AND POLICY PRIORITIES will hold a conference call briefing to discuss pressing issues before Congress that affect the well-being of low-income children in the United States, including Medicaid, the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), and child care services for low-income families.
WHO: The speakers are:
Robert Greenstein, Executive Director
Edwin Park, Senior Health Policy Analyst
Sharon Parrott, Co-Director of Federal TANF Policy
DATE: September 25, 2002
CONTACT: Michelle Bazie, 202-408-1080.
WEB ADDRESS:cbpp.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL holds a news conference releasing two new reports examining juvenile offender executions in the United States and worldwide. The reports are:
Indecent and Internationally Illegal: The Death Penalty Against Child Offenders
Children and the Death Penalty: Executions Worldwide Since 1990
WHO: The speakers are:
Dr. William F. Schulz, Executive Director of AIUSA
Dr. Elkhonon Goldberg, Director of the Institute of Neuropsychology and Cognitive Performance Ricardo Villalobos, Murder Victims Families for Reconciliation
DATE: September 25, 2002
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Jen Corlew , 202-544-0200 x302
WEB ADDRESS:aiusa.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: CATO INSTITUTE holds a policy forum on Food Fight: The Looming U.S.-EU Conflict over Plant Biotechnology and Trade.
WHO: The speakers are:
Alan Larson, U.S. Department of State; Ronald Bailey, Cato Institute
Tony Van der haegen, Delegation of the European Commission to the U.S.
Sarah Thorn, Grocery Manufacturers of America.
DATE: September 25, 2002
LOCATION: Cato Institute, 1000 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-789-5229
WEB ADDRESS: cato.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: LEADERSHIP WASHINGTON holds its elected officials fall luncheon program
WHO: The honorees are:
Sandra Allen; Member, Council of the District of Columbia
James Aluisi; Former Sheriff, Prince George's County
Dorothy Bailey; Vice Chair, Prince George's County Council
George Barton; Former Member, Loudoun County Board of Supervisors
Linda Cropp; Chair, Council of the District of Columbia
Wayne Curry; County Executive, Prince George's County
Jack Evans; Member, Council of the District of Columbia
Jay Fisette; Member, Arlington County Board
Jim Graham; Member, Council of the District of Columbia
Glenn Harrell, Jr.; Judge, Maryland Court of Appeals
James Hubbard; Delegate, Maryland House of Delegates
Charlene Drew Jarvis; Former Member, Council of the District of Columbia
William Lightfoot; Former Member, Council of the District of Columbia
William Missouri; Administrative Judge, 7th Judicial Circuit in Maryland
Dale Myers; Former Chair, Loudoun County Board of Supervisors
Doug Peters; Former Member, Bowie City Council
Karen Shook; Former Member, District of Columbia School Board
Anthony Williams; Mayor, District of Columbia
DATE: September 25, 2002
LOCATION: Renaissance Hotel, Washington, 999 Ninth Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-659-5135
WEB ADDRESS: lwdc.org
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a lecture entitled "Building Coalitions for Change in Cambodia" holds Chris Thomas, a senior education specialist at the World Bank.
DATE: September 25, 2002
LOCATION: 1619 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-663-5626
WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: RESOURCES FOR THE FUTURE features Carolyn Fisher, Resources for the Future discussing "Multilateral Trade Agreements and Market-Based Environmental Policies." Fischer will review legal provisions of the World Trade Organization that have implications for a member country's ability and incentives to design economically efficient environmental policies.
DATE: September 25, 2002
LOCATION: 1616 P Street, NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-328-5000
WEB ADDRESS: rff.org
TIME: 5:30 p.m.
EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a lecture entitled "U.S.-China Military Relations: Perceptions and Realities" with Dennis C. Blair, former commander-in-chief of the U.S. Pacific Command.
DATE: September 25, 2002
LOCATION: 1740 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-663-5626
WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org
TIME: 5:30 p.m.
EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a lecture entitled "Traditional Islam in Central Asia and Afghanistan" with Shaykh Hisham Muhammad Kabbani, chairman of the Islamic Supreme Council.
of North America,
DATE: September 25, 2002
LOCATION: 1619 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-663-5626
WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: KENNEDY CENTER MILLENIUM STAGE presents Garmarna who are inspired by Swedish folk music of the medieval period, to produce a mix of ancient and modern music. Layers of strings, guitars, hurdy-gurdy and percussion swirl around traditional vocals.
DATE: September 25, 2002
LOCATION: 2700 F Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-416-8000
WEB ADDRESS: kennedy-center.org
TIME: 6:40 p.m.
EVENT: ASIA SOCIETY presents author John Esposito, professor of Religion and International Affairs and Founding Director of the Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University discussing and signing copies of Unholy War: Terror in the Name of Islam.
DATE: September 25, 2002
LOCATION: Asia Society, 1800 K Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 212-327-9271
WEB ADDRESS:asiasociety.org
TIME: 7 p.m.
EVENT: POLITICS & PROSE BOOKSTORE presents Jeremy Mayer discussing and signing copies of Running On Race: Racial Politics in Presidential Campaigns 1960-2000 which depicts electoral strategies regarding race in every election since Kennedy's clever straddling on the race question in 1960.
DATE: September 25, 2002
LOCATION: 5015 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-364-1919
WEB ADDRESS: politics-prose.com
