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EVENTS ON THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2001
TIME: All Day
EVENT: ALLIANCE TO SAVE ENERGY holds its Summit on Energy Efficiency.
WHO: The speakers are:
Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham
Senator Jeff Bingaman, D-NM, Alliance Chair and Chair of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
James Woolsey, former CIA Director
Rep. Edward J. Markey, D-MA, Alliance vice-chair
S. David Freeman, Chair of California Consumer Power and Conservation Financing Authority
Adam Sieminski, Global Energy Strategist, Deutsche Banc Alex. Brown
Dean T. Langford, President, OSRAM SYLVANIA, Inc., Co-Chair, Alliance to Save Energy
Dr. Amory Lovins, chief executive officer, Rocky Mountain Institute
Dr. Philip Verleger, President, PKVerleger LLC
DATE: October 25, 2001
LOCATION: Willard Hotel, 1401 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-530-2207.
WEB ADDRESS:ase.org
TIME: 8:30 a.m.
EVENT: AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE holds a briefing on The Telecommunications Sector in a Slowing Economy with former FCC Commissioner Harold Furchtgott-Roth.
DATE: October 25, 2001
LOCATION: 1150 17th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-862-5933
WEB ADDRESS:aei.org
TIME: 9 a.m.
EVENT: MIGRATION POLICY INSTITUTE holds a briefing on The Humanitarian Crisis in and around Afghanistan: Propsects For the Coming Winter.
WHO: The speakers are:
Sippi Moghaddam, Women's Commission For Refugee Women and Children
Mark Bartolini, International Rescue Committee
Urs Boegli, International Committee of the Red Cross
DATE: October 25, 2001
LOCATION: 1400 16th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-266-1940
WEB ADDRESS:migrationpolicy.org
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a town hall meeting "Are Americans at Home in the Global Village?"
WHO: The speakers are:
Andrew Kohut, director of the Pew Center on the People and the Press
William Spriggs, director of the National Urban League, Institute of Opportunity and Equality
Cheryl Peterson, director of the American Nurses Association's
International Nursing Center
Frank Sharry, executive director, National Immigration Forum
Susan Aaronson, senior fellow, International Programs at NPA
DATE: October 25, 2001
LOCATION: 1740 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, Dc
CONTACT: 202-663-5626
WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: NATIONAL ECONOMIST CLUB holds its luncheon with David Wyss, Chief Economist, Standard & Poor's, on "The Urge to Splurge: Why Consumers Can't Pay."
DATE: October 25, 2001
LOCATION: Chinatown Garden Restaurant, 618 H Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 703-739-9404
WEB ADDRESS: national-economists.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: JACK KENT COOKE FOUNDATION holds a news conference launching its college scholarship program.
DATE: October 25, 2001
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 301-656-7900
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS holds a luncheon program featuring George Soros, Soros Fund Management releasing the Draft Report on Globalization.
DATE: October 25, 2001
LOCATION: IIE, 1750 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-328-5432
WEB ADDRESS:iie.com
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: NEWSEUM presents The World This Week featuring Jimmy Sabi, Humphrey Fellow at the University of Maryland's Phillip Merrill College of Journalism, and Maidstone Mulenga, reporter for the Democrat and Chronicle in Rochester, N.Y., examine the state of press freedom in Zambia.
CONTACT: 703-284-2887
WEB ADDRESS:newseum.org
TIME: 12:15 p.m.
EVENT: CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE holds a briefing on "The Afghan War And The Pakistan Dimension."
WHO: The speakers are:
Anatol Lieven, senior Associate, CEIP
Martha Brill Olcott, CEIP
DATE: October 25, 2001
LOCATION: CEIP, 1779 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Marshall Breit, 202-939-2296
WEB ADDRESS:ceip.org
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: WOMAN'S NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC CLUB presents author Roger Wilkins discussing and signing Jefferson's Pillow. It is a consideration of how men like George Washington, George Mason, James Madison, and Thomas Jefferson could profess to believe that all men are created equal and at the same time justify owning slaves.
DATE: October 25, 2001
LOCATION: 1526 New Hampshire Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-232-7363
WEB ADDRESS: democraticwomen.org
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB holds its "Luncheon Newsmaker" news program featuring Senator Bob Graham, D-FL chairman of the Senate Committee on Intelligence.
DATE: October 25, 2001
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: INTERNATIONAL REPUBLICAN INSTITUTE holds a roundtable on "Struggle For Democracy In Cuba."
WHO: The speakers are:
Rep. Lincoln Diaz Balart, R-FL
Georges Fauriol, IRI
Javier De Cespedes, The Cuban Democracy Revolutionary Directorate
Orlando Gutierrez, IRI
DATE: October 25, 2001
LOCATION: 1212 New York Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-408-9450
WEB ADDRESS:iri.org
TIME: 1:30 p.m.
EVENT: AMERICAN UNIVERSITY Washington College of Law International Legal Studies Program holds a program on the then-upcoming IMF, World Bank Conference.
WHO: The speakers are:
Prakash Loungani, IMF External Relations
Ydahlia Metzgen, IMF Division Chief, Coordination and Standards, Program Development and Review
Kathleen White, Acting Division Chief, IMF Public Affairs
John Starrells, IMF External Relations
Jerome Levinson, Professor of Law, AU Washington College of Law
DATE: October 25, 2001
LOCATION: Room 603, Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-885-5950
WEB ADDRESS:au.edu
TIME: 2 p.m.
EVENT: REPUBLICAN GOVERNORS ASSOCIATION holds an availability to be available to discuss how their states are united in support of President Bush's national security agenda and other related issues.
WHO: The speakers are:
Including RGA Chairman John G. Rowland, R-CT,
Gov. Mike Huckabee, R-AR
Bill Owens, R-CO
Dirk Kempthorne, ID
Bill Graves, KS
Jane Swift, R-MA
John Engler, R-MI
Donald T. DiFrancesco, NJ,
Gary Johnson, R-NM
John Hoeven, R-ND
Bob Taft, R-OH
Frank Keating, R-OK
Lincoln Almond, R-RI
Don Sundquist, R-TN
Scott McCallum, R-WI
Jim Geringer, R-WY
DATE: October 25, 2001
LOCATION: JW Marriott Hotel, 1331 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-863-8662
WEB ADDRESS: rga.org
TIME: 3:30 p.m.
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program on Empowering through Victimization: Moscow's Homeless Children with Clementine Fujimura, Associate Professor, Department of Language Studies, U.S. Naval Academy, and former Title VIII-Supported Research Scholar, Kennan Institute.
DATE: October 25, 2001
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
TIME: 4:30 p.m.
EVENT: GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY presents Florida Supreme Court Justice and GW Law School Alum Barbara Pariente discussing the infamous and controversial Election 2000 ruling
DATE: October 25, 2001
LOCATION: The George Washington University Law School, Lerner Hall, 2000 H Street, NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-994-6467
WEB ADDRESS:gwu.edu
TIME: 5 p.m.
EVENT: GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY The Center for Contemporary Arab Studies presents Uri Avnery, founder of the Israeli Peace Movement Gush Shalom discussing "Beyond Retribution: Towards a New Middle East."
DATE: October 25, 2001
LOCATION: 37TH and O Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-687-4328
WEB ADDRESS:Georgetown.edu
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: KENNEDY CENTER MILLENIUM STAGE presents one of the major symphony orchestras in the UK, the Ulster Orchestra who is known and acclaimed worldwide through its numerous appearances and recordings.
DATE: October 25, 2001
LOCATION: 2700 F Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-416-8000
WEB ADDRESS: kennedy-center.org
TIME: 7 p.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF POLICE ORGANIZATIONS hosts its eighth annual TOP COPS Awards Ceremony. The TOP COPS Awards pay tribute to law enforcement officers from across the country for outstanding service to their communities during the preceding year. The TOP COPS were nominated by fellow officers and selected from hundreds of nominations by an Awards Committee.
AGENDA: celebrity award presenters:
Al Roker of NBC's Today Show
Michael Beach
Coby Bell
Amy Carlson
Anthony Ruivivar
Skipp Sudduth
Jason Wiles
Dann Florek
Yaphet Kotto
DATE: October 25, 2001
LOCATION: Warner Theatre, 1299 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-842-4420
WEB ADDRESS:napo.org
