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EVENTS ON WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23, 2002
TIME: All Day
EVENT: US CONFERENCE OF MAYORS holds its 70th winter meeting themed "Cities Unite America". For the first time, mayors will split the meeting between two cities in a dramatic show of support by America's cities for New York City and its new mayor.
AGENDA: Highlights:
8:30 a.m. - Marc H. Morial, Mayor of New Orleans
President, The United States, Conference of Mayors
Anthony A. Williams, Mayor of the District of Columbia
Meet the Mayors
Mike Stark, President, USFilter
Aviation Security and Economic Viability
James K. Hahn, Mayor of Los Angeles, Chair, Aviation Security Task Force
Norman Y. Mineta, Secretary, U.S. Department of Transportation
Video Presentation, Homeland Security and the
Intergovernmental Partnership
Tom Ridge, Director, Office of Homeland Security
The White House
10 a.m. - News Conference
DATE: January 22, 2002
LOCATION: Capital Hilton, 16th and K Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-861-6766
WEB ADDRESS: usmayors.org
TIME: All Day
EVENT: RESERVE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION holds its annual mid-winter convention and military exposition, focusing on homeland security.
DATE: January 23, 2002
LOCATION: Washington Hilton and Towers, 1919 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Keith Lebling, 202-646-7726
WEB ADDRESS: roa.org
TIME: 8 a.m.
EVENT: WASHINGTON SCIENCE POLICY ALLIANCE presents Valdas Adamkus, President of the Republic of Lithuania, will discuss environmental change through economic reform, consolidating environmental principles and Euro-Atlantic policy.
DATE: January 23, 2002
LOCATION: AAAS Auditorium, 1200 New York Avenue, NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-326-6431
WEB ADDRESS: aaas.org
TIME: 9 a.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL CONGRESS FOR THE PROTECTION OF HUMAN LIFE holds a news conference.
WHO: The speakers are:
Judy Brown, American Life League
Dinis Dillion, district Attorney, Nassau County NY
Bay Buchanan, American Cause
Howard Phillips, The Conservative Caucus
Stacey Vogel, Buffalo Regional Right to Life
DATE: January 23, 2002
LOCATION: Hyatt Regency -- Capitol Hill, 400 New Jersey Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 703-362-8281
TIME: 8:30 a.m.
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a symposium on Information Technology, Productivity, and the Post 9/11 Economic Slump.
WHO: The speakers are:
Daniel Sichel, senior economist, Federal Reserve System
Marilyn Manser, Bureau of Labor Statistics
Rhett Dawson, Technology Industry Council
DATE: January 23, 2002
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: BROOKINGS INSTITUTION Harvard Forum on Press Coverage and the War on Terrorism presents "The CNN Effect."
WHO: The speakers are:
Lawrence S. Eagleburger, Former Secretary of State
Judy Woodruff, Prime anchor and senior correspondent, CNN
Steven Livingston, Associate Professor of Political Communication and International Affairs, George Washington University
Marvin Kalb, Executive Director, Washington Office, The Shorenstein Center, Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government
Stephen Hess, Senior Fellow, Governmental Studies, The Brookings Institution, author of numerous books on media and politics
DATE: January 23, 2002
LOCATION: Falk Auditorium, 1775 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-797-6105
WEB ADDRESS: brookings.edu
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: CONSUMER FEDERATION OF AMERICA holds a news conference releasing new information about how consumers, businesses and insurers are faring since Congress adjourned last month without enacting terror insurance legislation.
DATE: January 23, 2002
LOCATION: Capital Hilton, 16th and K Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-387-6121
WEB ADDRESS: consumerfed.org
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: BROOKINGS INSTITUTION Brown Center on Education Policy and Thomas B. Fordham Foundation Forum on Is Installing A "Whole School" Reform Model The Best Way To Turn Around A Struggling School?
WHO: The speakers are:
James Traub, Contributing Writer, The New York Times Magazine
Anne Mcclellan, Director of Program Development, Center for Reform of School Systems
Gene Bottoms, Senior Vice President, Southern Regional Education Board; Founding Director, High Schools That Work
Mary Ann Schmitt, President, New American Schools
Jeffrey Mirel, Professor of Educational Studies and History, University of Michigan; Author of Evolution of the New American School
DATE: January 23, 2002
LOCATION: Falk Auditorium, 1775 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-797-6105
WEB ADDRESS: brookings.edu
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: HERITAGE FOUNDATION holds a program entitled "In The Arena: A Memoir of the 20th Century," Caspar Weinberger Secretary of Defense for President Ronald Reagan Becky Norton Dunlop The Heritage Foundation.
DATE: January 23, 2002
LOCATION: 214 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-675-1752
WEB ADDRESS:heritage.org
TIME: 3:45 p.m.
EVENT: AMERICAN UNIVERSITY Office of Multicultural Affairs will host a march and celebration in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
AGENDA: Students, faculty, staff and guests will gather in front of Bender Library and precede, by candlelight, to the Kay Spiritual Life Center for a lecture by Roger Wilkins, Clarence J. Robinson professor of history and American culture at George Mason University.
DATE: January 23, 2002
LOCATION: Walk begins at Bender Library and ends at Kay Spiritual Life Center for speech, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-862-5933
WEB ADDRESS:au.edu
TIME: 5:15 p.m.
EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a lecture featuring Mark Schwartz, chief economist and manager of the economics and energy division of ExxonMobil discussing "The ExxonMobil Long-Range Energy Outlook and Related Issues."
DATE: January 23, 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 Adams Morgan-based Bob Perilla and Big Hillbilly Bluegrass is a quartet performing bluegrass along with country, and folk.
DATE: January 23, 2002
LOCATION: 2700 F Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-416-8000
WEB ADDRESS: kennedy-center.org
TIME: 6:30 p.m.
EVENT: CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES presents Michèle Flournoy discussing the new CSIS book To Prevail: An American Strategy for the Campaign Against Terrorism.
DATE: January 23, 2002
LOCATION: 1800 K Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Mark Schoeff, 202-775-3242
WEB ADDRESS:csis.org
TIME: 6:30 p.m.
EVENT: MERIDIAN INTERNATIONAL CENTER holds a seminar entitled Sacred Rage: The Wrath of Militant Islam with Robin Wright, chief diplomatic correspondent, Los Angeles Times.
DATE: January 23, 2002
LOCATION: 1630 Crescent Place NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-939-5568
WEB ADDRESS:meridian.org
TIME: 6:30 p.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB Book Rap features Edward O. Wilson, discussing and signing copies of The Future of Life.
DATE: January 23, 2002
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-662-7500
WEB ADDRESS: npc.press.org
TIME: 7 p.m.
EVENT: POLITICS & PROSE BOOKSTORE features Calvin Trillin discussing and signing copies of Tepper Isn't Going Out, a political satire, Murray Tepper parks his car subversively, bringing down the wrath of other drivers and the city government.
DATE: January 23, 2002
LOCATION: 5015 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-364-1919
WEB ADDRESS: politics-prose.com
