For content questions, call 202-898-8291
To fax additions or changes, 202-898-8064
For the UPI News Desk call, 202-898-8111 or 8015
EVENTS ON TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2001
TIME: All Day
EVENT: STRATEGIES FOR ENHANCING ACCESS TO MEDICINES PROGRAM OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCES FOR HEALTH, holds an international conference, "Targeting Improved Access." The program will offer plenary presentations by experts discussing various dimensions of the problem of lack of access, along with case studies and situational reports from assessments conducted in seven countries: Brazil, Cambodia, El Salvador, Ghana, India, Senegal, and Tanzania. Technical discussions will focus on possible solutions to the problem of lack of access in these countries by building local public-private sector collaboration.
AGENDA: Highlights:
10:30 a.m. - Keynote address: Access to Essential Medicines: Staggering Inequities-Unparalleled Opportunities (Jonathan D. Quick, Director, Essential Drugs and Medicines Policy, World Health Organization)
11:15 a.m. - Symposium: Targeting Improved Access
DATE: November 27, 2001
LOCATION: 37TH and O Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Gretchen Hurley, 703-248-1614
WEB ADDRESS:Georgetown.edu
TIME: All Day
EVENT: NATIONAL COMMISSION AGAINST DRUNK DRIVING holds a National Town Hall Meeting on drunk driving.
AGENDA: Highlights:
11:30 a.m. - Presidential Commission Luncheon honors the 20th Anniversary of the Presidential Commission On Drunk Driving DOT Secretary Norman Mineta
Rep. Jim Hansen, R-UT, (invited)
former Congressman Michael Barnes
MADD founder Candy Lightner
1 p.m. - Waging The War on Drunk Driving:Whose responsibility is it?
Paying the Costs -- How can we fund this war at the local, state and national level?
6 p.m. - NCADD AWARDS RECEPTION
DATE: November 27, 2001
LOCATION: 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 301-652-6016
WEB ADDRESS:ncadd.com
TIME: 9 a.m.
EVENT: CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE holds its Terrorism Briefing.
WHO: The speakers are:
Ken Menkhaus, is a specialist on Somalia and its Islamic movements
David Shinn, a career foreign service officer, served as director of the Office of East African Affairs and then as ambassador to Ethiopia.
John Paden, professor of international studies at George Mason University, is a noted Africanist scholar.
Marina Ottaway, Carnegie senior associate, will moderate. A lecturer in African studies at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies, she is the author of Africa's New Leaders: Democracy or State Reconstruction?
DATE: November 27, 2001
LOCATION: 1779 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-483-7600
WEB ADDRESS:ceip.org
TIME: 9:30 a.m.
EVENT: GALLUP RESEARCH CENTER holds a symposium on "Public Opinion In The Age Of Terrorism: An Examination of the War, Government, People and Liberty."
AGENDA: Gallup will present a review of public opinion in the aftermath of Sept. 11, including a special (and surprising) review of exactly what has changed and what has not, and a distinguished panel of experts will offer their commentaries and discuss the implications of the findings.
DATE: November 27, 2001
LOCATION: Gallup Building, 9th and F, NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Eric Nielsen, 202-715-3030
WEB ADDRESS:gallup.com
TIME: 9:30 a.m.
EVENT: ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN RAILROADS will hold a press briefing on the Hatch/Baucus Railroad Retirement Reform Legislation.
WHO: The speakers are:
Ed Hamberger, CEO, Assoc of American Railroads
Obie O'Bannon, Senior VP Govt Affairs, Assoc of American Railroads
Dennis Boston, Intl VP, Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen
David Lucci, Railroad Retirement Board
Margret Stanley, Railroad Retirement Board
DATE: November 27, 2001
LOCATION: 50 F Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-639-2100 X2540
WEB ADDRESS: aar.org
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: HERITAGE FOUNDATION holds a panel discussion on Winning The Diplomatic Front: Democracy Promotion And The Human Right Agenda In The Middle East with Paula Dobriansky State Department.
DATE: November 27, 2001
LOCATION: 214 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-675-1752
WEB ADDRESS:heritage.org
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: EMBASSY OF SWEDEN presents eight of the American Nobel Prize winners in Econ, Physics, and chemistry.
WHO: 2001 Laureates:
Physics
Wolfgang Ketterle
Carl E. Wieman
Chemistry
William S. Knowles
K. Barry Sharpless
Economics
George A. Akerlof
A. Michael Spence
Joseph E. Stiglitz
DATE: November 27, 2001
LOCATION: Madison Hotel, 15th and M Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-467-2655
WEB ADDRESS:Swedenemb.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: HERITAGE FOUNDATION holds a panel discussion on Faith, Fundamentalism and Democratic Freedom: Religion in America After September 11
WHO: The speakers are:
Os Guinness, Ph.D. Trinity Forum
Joe Loconte The Heritage Foundation
DATE: November 27, 2001
LOCATION: 214 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-675-1752
WEB ADDRESS: heritage.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: CENTER FOR GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT holds a panel discussion on Shaping U.S. Policies Toward the Developing World After September 11.
WHO: The speakers are:
Nancy Birdsall, President, Center For Global Development
C. Fred Bergsten, Director, Institute for International Economics
Edward W. Scott, Chairman, Center For Global Development
James Wolfensohn, President, The World Bank
Panel on Shaping U.S. Policies Toward the Developing World After September 11:
Rev. David Beckmann, President of Bread for the World
Rima Khalaf Hunaidi, Asst. Administrator and Regional Director for the Arab States of United Nations Development Programme, Former Deputy Prime Minister of Jordan
Sebastian Mallaby, Washington Post
Gene Sperling, former White House National Economic Advisor and Director of the National Economic Council
Nancy Birdsall, President, Center for Global Development, Panel Moderator
DATE: November 27, 2001
LOCATION: Institute for International Economics, 1750 Massachusetts Ave., NW, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202-454-1374
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY, AMERICAN HEART AND LUNG ASSOCIATIONS AND CAMPAIGN FOR TOBACCO-FREE KIDS hold a news conference to discuss report on the impact that "light" and "low-tar" cigarettes have had on smokers' health.
WHO: The speakers are:
C. Everett Koop, MD, Former Surgeon General
Sarah Brady, Gun Control Advocate, "Lights" Smoker and Lung Cancer Sufferer
David M. Burns, MD, Senior Scientific Editor, NCI Report
John Seffrin, PhD, Chief Executive Officer, American Cancer Society
M. Cass Wheeler, Chief Executive Officer, American Heart Association
John Kirkwood, Chief Executive Officer, American Lung Association
Matthew L. Myers, President, Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids
DATE: November 27, 2001
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Joel Spivak, 202-296-5469
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: HEMLOCK SOCIETY holds a news conference to discuss to announce the launch of a national campaign to overturn Attorney General John Ashcroft's ruling prohibiting assisted-death.
DATE: November 27, 2001
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Ann Crampton or Rebecca Werner, 202/737-8400
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT INITIATIVE holds a briefing to announce and discuss its newest publication: Environment: Value to the Top Line.
WHO: The speakers are:
Ben Jordan, Environmental Manager, Coca-Cola N.A.
Jim Thomas, Executive Director, EHS, Novartis Corporation
Don Clay, Director, Regulatory Affairs, Koch Industries
Steve Poltorzycki, Boston Environmental Group
Steve Hellem, GEMI Executive Director
DATE: November 27, 2001
LOCATION: GEMI Offices, One Thomas Circle, NW, Tenth Floor, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-296-7449
WEB ADDRESS: gemi.org
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a lecture entitled "OPIC's Human Face: Workers Rights and Environmental Conditionality for Investment Guarantees" with Harvey Himberg, OPIC's director for investment policy and environmental affairs.
DATE: November 27, 2001
LOCATION: 1740 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-663-5626
WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a lecture entitled "Thailand's Prime Minister Thaksin: New Populism or Good Old Cronyism?"
WHO: The speakers are:
Pasuk Phongpaichit, an adjunct professor at SAIS and a professor at Chulalongkorn, University in Bangkok
Chris Baker, an independent researcher
DATE: November 27, 2001
LOCATION: 1619 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-663-5626
WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES presents Peter Jarrett, head of country studies Division I at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, will discuss the new OECD report on the U.S. economy.
DATE: November 27, 2001
LOCATION: 1800 K Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Mark Schoeff, 202-775-3242
WEB ADDRESS:csis.org
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB holds its "Luncheon Newsmaker" news program featuring Jacques Rogge, President, International Olympic Committee.
DATE: November 27, 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: WOMAN'S NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC CLUB presents Bill Press nationally syndicated newspaper columnist, discussing and signing copies of Spin This!
DATE: November 27, 2001
LOCATION: 1526 New Hampshire Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-232-7363
WEB ADDRESS: democraticwomen.org
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: WOMEN IN FOREIGN POLICY GROUP holds its annual luncheon themed "Terrorism: New Challenges, New Missions, and New Solutions."
WHO: The speakers are:
Cokie Roberts, co anchor of "This Week With Sam Donaldson"
Rep. Jane Harman, D-CA
Ambassador to the U.S. from Pakistan Maleeha Lodhi
DATE: November 27, 2001
LOCATION: Ritz Carlton, 1150 22nd Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Patricia Ellis, 202-884-8597
WEB ADDRESS:wfpg.org
TIME: 2 p.m.
EVENT: CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES presents a news conference on To Prevail: An American Strategy for the Campaign Against Terrorism.
WHO: The speakers are:
Sen. Mary Landrieu, Emerging Threats and Capabilities Subcommittee
of the Senate Armed Services Committee
John Hamre, CSIS President and CEO
Kurt Campbell, CSIS Senior Vice-President
Director, CSIS International Security Program
Michèle Flournoy, CSIS Senior Adviser, International Security Program
DATE: November 27, 2001
LOCATION: 1800 K Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Mark Schoeff, 202-775-3242
WEB ADDRESS:csis.org
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: KENNEDY CENTER MILLENIUM STAGE present Dance companies The Wild Zappers and the National Deaf Dance Theater bridging gap between the hearing and deaf communities.
DATE: November 27, 2001
LOCATION: 2700 F Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-416-8000
WEB ADDRESS: kennedy-center.org
TIME: 6:30 p.m.
EVENT: CARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON holds a its Caporal Science lecture presenting Jack W. Szostak, Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Alex Rich Distinguished Investigator, Massachusetts General Hospital discussing The Origins of Evolution.
DATE: November 27 2001
LOCATION: 1530 P Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-483-7600
WEB ADDRESS: carnegieinstitution.org
TIME: 7 p.m.
EVENT: POLITICS & PROSE BOOKSTORE reception for local authors and illustrators of children's books published this fall.
WHO: Among those planning to attend are:
Tom Allen, Cheryl and Peter Barnes
Henry Cole
Michael Cooper
Rosemary Covey
Deborah DeCosta
Kitson Flynn
Carla Golembe
Imani Gonzalez
Jean Gralley
Jacqueline Jules
Kathy Kahn
Barbara Maitland
Jill McElmurry
Margaret Meacham
Laura Kraus Melmed
Judy Morris
Patrick O'Brien
Frances Park
Ginger Park
Barbara Ann Porte
Mary Quattlebaum
Alex Sanchez
Rosalyn Schanzer
Susan Shreve
Jeffrey Thompson
DATE: November 27, 2001
LOCATION: 5015 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-364-1919
WEB ADDRESS: politics-prose.com
TIME: 7:30 p.m.
EVENT: GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY School of Media and Public Affairs will host a discussion on "News in Crisis: Covering Terrorism In An Integrated Multi-Media World."
WHO: The speakers are:
Mike McCurry, former White House press secretary and former State Department spokesman
Leonard Downie Jr., executive editor of The Washington Post
Jodie Allen, assistant managing editor, U.S. News & World Report and a founder of Slate.com
Terence Smith, media correspondent, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
Kelly Wallace, White House correspondent, CNN
Kinsey Wilson, editor-in-chief, USAToday.com.
DATE: November 27, 2001
LOCATION: Jack Morton Auditorium, Media and Public Affairs Building, 805 21st Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-994-4750
WEB ADDRESS:gwu.edu
