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Washington Agenda - General News Events

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EVENTS ON MONDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2001

TIME: All Day

EVENT: NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF INSURANCE COMMISSIONERS holds its Insurance Summit.

AGENDA: Highlights:

1 p.m. -- John Koskinen, Chief Administrator, District of Columbia

1:15 p.m. -- Opening Remarks

Kathleen Sebelius, NAIC President, Commissioner of Insurance, State of Kansas

1:30 p.m. -- Richard Baker, Congressional District, Louisiana

2 p.m. -- Insurer CEO Panel Greg Serio, Superintendent of Insurance, State of New York

Edmund F. Kelly, Chairman, President & CEO, Liberty Mutual Group (Confirmed)

Maurice R. Greenberg, Chairman & CEO, American International Group, Inc. (Invited)

3:30 p.m. -- Terri M. Vaughan, NAIC Vice President, Commissioner of Insurance State of Iowa

Jacques E. DuBois, Chairman, Swiss Re Insurance Company

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Ron Ferguson, Chairman, General Reinsurance (Confirmed)

Ed Noonan, Chairman, American Reinsurance Company

DATE: October 22, 2001

LOCATION: Omni Shoreham, 2500 Calvert Street NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-234-0700

WEB ADDRESS:naic.org

TIME: All Day

EVENT: AMERICAN BANKING ASSOCIATION AND AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION hold the 13th annual Money Laundering Enforcement Seminar.

AGENDA: Highlight:

12 noon -- Under Secretary for Enforcement Jimmy Gurule

DATE: October 22, 2001

LOCATION: Crystal Gateway -- Marriott, 1700 Jefferson David Highway, Arlington, VA

CONTACT: 1-800 BANKERS.

WEB ADDRESS:aba.com

TIME: 9:30 a.m.

EVENT: FAIR LABOR ASSOCIATION holds a program with Former Secretary of Agriculture Daniel Glickman discussing fair labor issues.

DATE: October 22, 2001

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

CONTACT: 202-898-1000

TIME: 10 a.m.

EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB holds its "Morning Newsmaker" news program featuring Anne Garside and photographer Orlando Suero discussing "Camelot at Dawn: Jacqueline and John Kennedy in Georgetown, May 1954."

DATE: October 22, 2001

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

CONTACT: 202-662-7500

WEB ADDRESS: npc.press.org

TIME: 10 a.m.

EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB holds its "Morning Newsmaker" news program featuring Minister of Foreign Affairs of Israel Shimon Peres.

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DATE: October 22, 2001

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

CONTACT: 202-662-7500

WEB ADDRESS: npc.press.org

TIME: 10 a.m.

EVENT: GOOD JOBS FIRST holds a news conference to discuss a study entitled "Jail Breaks: Economic Development Subsidies Given To Private Prisons."

DATE: October 22, 2001

LOCATION: 100 Maryland Avenue NE, Washington, DC

CONTACT: Phil Marrera, 202-628-3780

WEB ADDRESS: goodjobsfitst.org

TIME: 10 a.m.

EVENT: CENTER FOR MIDDLE EAST PEACE holds a program on "One Year Since the Outbreak of the Intifada and One Month After September 11th: Lessons for Israelis, Palestinians and Americans."

WHO: The speakers are:

Israel Hason, Former Deputy Director of Shin Bet

Khalil Shikaki, Director, Palestinian Center for Policy & Survey Research

Salim Tamari, Director, Institute for Jerusalem Studies

Akiva Eldar, Columnist, Ha'aretz

Shibley Telhami, Professor, University of Maryland Gidi Grinstein, Former Secretary of the Israeli Delegation on Permanent Status Negotiations

Aaron David Miller, Senior Advisor, Arab-Israeli Negotiations, U.S. State Dept.

Rob Malley, Senior Policy Advisor, Center for Middle East Peace

DATE: October 22, 2001

LOCATION: 633 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-624-0850

TIME: 10 a.m.

EVENT: CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a program entitled "Counter terrorism: Role Of Caucasus And Central Asia."

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WHO: The speakers are:

Sarah E. Mendelson, assistant professor, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy

Kimberly Marten Zisk, Barnard College, Columbia University and fellow, Council on Foreign Relations

Zeyno Baran, director, CSIS Georgia Project

Shireen Hunter, director, CSIS Islam Program

Pauline Jones Luong, assistant professor, Yale University

Celeste A. Wallander Director, CSIS Russia and Eurasia Program

DATE: October 22, 2001

LOCATION: 1800 K Street NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: Mark Schoeff, 202-775-3242

WEB ADDRESS:csis.org

TIME: 12 noon

EVENT: UNITED NATIONAL POPULATION FUND holds a telephone new conference To Discuss Saving Women's Lives In Afghanistan: Emergency Reproductive Health Effort For Refugee Women."

WHO: The speakers are:

Pam Delargy, UN Population Fund

Phyllis Oakley, former assistant secretary of state for population

Dr. Olivier Brasseur, UN Population Fund Rep.

DATE: October 22, 2001

CONTACT: 915-833-7093 ex 231

WEB ADDRESS: 800-233-2795

TIME: 12 noon

EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program on The Fight for Russia: Putin Versus The Oligarchs with Donald Jensen, Associate Director of Broadcasting, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Prague.

DATE: October 22, 2001

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

Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-287-3400

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WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu

TIME: 12 noon

EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB holds a roundtable discussion on "The World in Turmoil."

DATE: October 22, 2001

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: ELECTRONIC PRIVACY INFORMATION CENTER holds a conference on Security or Surveillance: Technology's Impact after September 11th. The discussions will explore the implications of new systems for identification and tracking on personal privacy.

WHO: The speakers are:

Privacy Foundation CTO Richard Smith, Privacy Journal

Editor Robert Ellis Smith

The New Republic Legal Affairs Editor Jeffrey Rosen

RAND Senior Policy Analyst John Woodward

Sun Distinguished Engineer Whitfield Diffie

EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg

DATE: October 22, 2001

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

CONTACT: 202-483-1140

WEB ADDRESS:epic.org

TIME: 12:30 p.m.

EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a lecture entitled "The Colombian Displacement Crisis" with Andrew Fandino, Columbia project representative for Peace Brigades International, and Carlos Sanchez, U.S. coordinator for Catholic Relief Services' In Solidarity with Columbia program.

DATE: October 22, 2001

LOCATION: 1619 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC

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CONTACT: 202-663-5626

WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org

TIME: 12:30 p.m.

EVENT: NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION holds a brownbag discussion on "Accelerating Broadband Deployment And Spectrum Reform: The View From Silicon Valley," with Eric Benhamou, Chairman of the Board, 3Com Corporation and Palm, Inc.

DATE: October 22, 2001

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

CONTACT: Jud Mathews, 202-986-4901

WEB ADDRESS: newamerica.net

TIME: 3 p.m.

EVENT: AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE holds a program on "What If Congress Were Obliterated?"

AGENDA: What if the terrorists had succeeded in flying an airplane into the Capitol, killing or incapacitating many members of the House of Representatives and the Senate? Our Constitution and laws have only makeshift and incomplete provisions for Congress to convene, do business, and make laws under those circumstances.

WHO: The speakers are:

Norman Ornstein, American Enterprise Institute

Rep. Brian Baird, D-WA

Rep. Doug Bereuter, R-NE invited

DATE: October 22, 2001

LOCATION: 1150 17th Street NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-862-5933

WEB ADDRESS:aei.org

TIME: 6 p.m.

EVENT: KENNEDY CENTER MILLENIUM STAGE presents Hawaiian performers George Kuo, Martin Pahinui, Danny Akaka Jr., Alan Akaka, and Greg Sardinha celebrating the history of Hawaiian musical traditions.

DATE: October 22, 2001

LOCATION: 2700 F Street NW, Washington, DC

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CONTACT: 202-416-8000

WEB ADDRESS: kennedy-center.org

TIME: 7:30 p.m.

EVENT: POLITICS & PROSE BOOKSTORE features author David Grand discussing EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing). It is a technique to aid in psychotherapeutic treatment. In his book Emotional Healing At Warp Speed: The Power of EMDR, he details his training and use of this method help people deal with everything from the most profound psychological trauma to everyday fears and anxieties.

DATE: October 22, 2001

LOCATION: 5015 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-364-1919.

WEB ADDRESS: politics-prose.com

TIME: 8 p.m.

EVENT: AMERICAN UNIVERSITY presents a discussion on "How Should Religion Relate To American Politics?"

WHO: The speakers are:

Rev. John C. Rankin, president, Theological Education Institute

Rob Boston, assistant director of communications, Americans United for

Separation of Church and State

DATE: October 22, 2001

LOCATION: 4400 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-885-5950

WEB ADDRESS:au.edu

TIME: 8:15 p.m.

EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a presentation by Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Kenneth W. Dam discussing "The U.S. Strategy Behind The Terrorist Asset Tracking."

DATE: October 22, 2001

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

Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-287-3400

WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu

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