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EVENTS ON FRIDAY, MAY 2, 2003

TIME: 7:30 a.m.

EVENT: NORTHERN VIRGINIA TECHNOLOGY COUCIL holds program on State of the Venture Capital Market.

WHO: The speakers are:

Gina Dubbe, Walker Ventures

Brian Hayhurst, Managing Director, Carlyle Venture Partners

Mark Levine, Core Capital

Laura Lukaczyk, General Partner, Avansis Ventures

Harry Weller, Partner, New Enterprise Associates

Joe Zell, General Partner, Grotech Capital

DATE: May 2, 2003

LOCATION: Hyatt Regency Reston, 1800 Presidents Street, Reston, VA

CONTACT: 703-904-7878

WEB ADDRESS: nvtc.org

TIME: 7:30 a.m.

EVENT: NATIONAL FOUNDATION OF WOMEN LEGISLATORS holds a breakfast program.

DATE: May 2, 2003

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

CONTACT: Elaine Coronado, 202-362-8010

TIME: 8:30 a.m.

EVENT: THE BIOTECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY ORGANIZATION holds a program to discuss the important role intellectual property plays in the American biotechnology industry.

WHO: The speakers are:

Jasemine Chambers, Ph.D., J.D., U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

Jim Davis, Ph.D., J.D., Human Genome Sciences Inc.

Christopher Palatucci, Ph.D., Athena Diagnostics

Jeff Kushan, Esq., representing Genentech

Rita Khanna, Ph.D., J.D., University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute

DATE: May 2, 2003

LOCATION: Room HC-5, U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C.

CONTACT: 202-962-9200

WEB ADDRESS: bio.org

TIME: 9 a.m.

EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program on Counting Intangibles: The International View with Kurt Ramin, International Accounting Standards Board.

DATE: May 2, 2003

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: DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS news conference on Health Needs in Iraq featuring Dr. Morten Rostrup, president, International.

DATE: May 2, 2003

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

CONTACT: 212-655-3764

WEB ADDRESS: doctorswithoutborders.org

TIME: 12 noon

EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a Pervasive Computing.

WHO: The speakers are:

Rod Adkins, General Manager, Pervasive Computing Division, IBM

Victor Zue, Director, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science

David Brin, Author of The Transparent Society.

DATE: May 2, 2003

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

Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-287-3400

WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu

TIME: 12 noon

EVENT: JOINT COMMISSION ON ACCREDIATION OF HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATIONS holds a briefing and luncheon to discuss the health care organizations ability to deliver quality care.

DATE: May 2, 2003

LOCATION: S-115 U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C.

CONTACT: 630-792-5175

WEB ADDRESS: jcaho.org

TIME: 12 noon

EVENT: CATO INSTITUTE holds a hill briefing on " After Victory: A Strategy for Exiting the Persian Gulf. "

WHO: The speakers are:

Christopher Preble, Director, Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute

Charles Peña, Director, Defense Policy Studies, Cato Institute

DATE: May 2, 2003

LOCATION: B-338 Rayburn House Office Building, 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 Erika Harold, Miss America 2003.

DATE: May 2, 2003

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

CONTACT: 202-662-7500

WEB ADDRESS: npc.press.org

TIME: 1 p.m.

EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES South Asian Studies Program holds a conference entitled South Asian Security: Visions for the Future.

AGENDA: Highlighted speakers:

Om Pradhan, ambassador of Bhutan to the United States

Janaka Nakkawita, deputy chief of mission for Sri Lanka

Dipankar Banerjee, major general and senior fellow at the U.S.

Institute of Peace

Stephen P. Cohen, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution

Paula Newberg, special adviser at the United Nations

DATE: May 2, 2003

LOCATION: 1740 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-663-5626

WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org

TIME: 6 p.m.

EVENT: KENNEDY CENTER MILLENIUM STAGE features Classical string quartet, The Madison Ensemble, featuring Patricia A. Smith, who has performed at the White House, the National Gallery, and with the National Symphony Orchestra.

DATE: May 2, 2003

LOCATION: 2700 F Street NW, Washington, D.C.

CONTACT: 202-416-8000

WEB ADDRESS: kennedy-center.org

TIME: 6 p.m.

EVENT: GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY Elliott School of International Affairs and Filmfest D.C. present Sydney Pollack discussing his relationship between politics and art in the film industry.

DATE: May 2, 2003

LOCATION: 800 21st Street NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-994-3087

WEB ADDRESS: gwnewscenter.org

TIME: 7:30 p.m.

EVENT: POLITICS & PROSE BOOKSTORE presents Antony Beevor discussing and signing copies of

Fall Of Berlin 1945. This monumental history of the Soviet advance toward Berlin in the last desperate days of World War II is now in paperback. Beevor shows that "instead of eliminating Bolshevism as he had claimed, Hitler had brought it into the very heart of Europe."

DATE: May 2, 2003

LOCATION: 5015 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, D.C.

CONTACT: 202-364-1919

WEB ADDRESS: politics-prose.com