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EVENTS ON THURSDAY, JANUARY 24, 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: Highlight:
7 a.m. -- Breakfast with the President, White House
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: NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SOCIAL INSURANCE holds a conference on Long-Term Care and Medicare Policy: Can We Improve the Continuity of Care?
AGENDA: Highlights:
9:30 a.m. - Lawrence H. Thompson, President, National Academy of Social Insurance
10 a.m.- Chronic and Long-Term Care: What are the Needs?
12 noon - Thomas A. Scully, Administrator, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
DATE: January 24, 2002
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Terry Nixon, 202-452-8097
WEB ADDRESS:nasi.org
TIME: All Day
EVENT: GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY Mason Enterprise Center, School of Public Policy holds its 10th annual conference on Forecasting The Greater Washington Economy: 2002. Local governments just a year ago were preoccupied with keeping up with surging service demands in a fast-growth, high-tech economy. Now, they are now looking down the twin barrels of coping with the immediate economic recession, while addressing longer-term questions of preserving regional comparative advantage.
DATE: January 24, 2002
LOCATION: George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
CONTACT: 703-277-7706
WEB ADDRESS:georgemason.edu
TIME: 8 a.m.
EVENT: CHAMBER OF COMMERCE holds a briefing on "Outlook 2002: Business, Politics, and the Economy."
WHO: the speakers are:
Thomas J. Donohue, President and CEO, U.S. Chamber of Commerce
David Rapp, Executive Editor and Senior Vice President, Congressional Quarterly
Terry McDermott, Executive Vice President, National Association of Realtors
Bob Vagley, President, The American Insurance Association
Red Cavaney, President and CEO, American Petroleum Institute
Karen Ignagni, President and CEO,
American Association of Health Plans
Charlene Barshevsky, Partner, Wilmer Cutler & Pickering
Al From, Founder and CEO, Democratic Leadership Council
Newt Gingrich, CEO, The Gingrich Group
Bill Paxon, Senior Advisor, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
William Cohen, Chairman and CEO, The Cohen Group
DATE: January 24, 2002
LOCATION: 1615 H Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-463-5682
WEB ADDRESS:uschamber.com
TIME: 9 a.m.
EVENT: REP. JOHN DINGALL, D-MI, REP. CAROLYN MAKINEY, D-NY, hold a briefing on a report entitled "A New Look Through The Glass Ceiling."
WHO: The speakers are:
Actress Lorraine Bracco
Martha Farnsworth Riche, former director, US Census
DATE: January 24, 2002
LOCATION: B-369 Rayburn Office Building, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-225-7944
WEB ADDRESS:house.gov
TIME: 9:30 a.m.
EVENT: PEW HISPANIC CENTER holds a program to discuss findings of independent research, which reveals that the long-term effects of the recession will depress incomes and increase poverty in U.S. Hispanic communities through the end of 2004, longer than for any other major group. We will discuss the implications of these findings for the nation's future and domestic policy.
WHO: The speakers are:
Roberto Suro, Director, Pew Hispanic Center
B. Lindsay Lowell, Director of Research, Pew Hispanic Center
Alan Krueger, Bendheim Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Princeton University and
Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research
Jonathan Orszag, Managing Director, Sebago Associates, Inc.
DATE: January 24, 2002
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-292-3304
WEB ADDRESS: pewhispanic.org
TIME: 9:30 a.m.
EVENT: REPUBLICAN POLLSTER ED GOEAS OF THE TARRANCE GROUP AND DEMOCRATIC POLLSTER CELINDA LAKE OF LAKE SNELL PERRY AND ASSOCIATES hold a news conference releasing their latest Battleground Poll next week!
DATE: January 24, 2002
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Tammi Smith, 703-684-6688 or David Cantor, 202-776-9066
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: PEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY holds a news conference to oppose Judge Charles Pickering President Bush's nominee to the 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals
WHO: The speakers are:
Nan Aron, Alliance For Justice
Ralph Neas, People For the American Way
Kate Michelman, NARAL
Wade Henderson, Leadership Conference on Civil Rights
DATE: January 24, 2002
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 2-2-467-4999
WEB ADDRESS:pfaw.rg
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: REP. BENJAMIN CARDIN, D-MD, holds a news conference to discuss the Next Steps of Reforming Welfare Act.
DATE: January 24, 2002
LOCATION: H-137 US Capitol, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 410-433-8886
WEB ADDRESS: house gov.
TIME: 10:30 a.m.
EVENT: MORTGAGE BANKERS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA holds a briefing on the State of the Mortgage Banking Industry.
DATE: January 24, 2002
LOCATION: 1919 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-557-2871
WEB ADDRESS: mbaa.org
TIME: 11 a.m.
EVENT: CENTER ON BUDGET AND POLICY PRIORITIES holds a conference call briefing to discuss The New Congressional Budget Office Projections: Implications For This Year's Budget Debate.
WHO: The speakers are:
Richard Kogan, senior fellow, CBPP
Joel Friedman, senior fellow, CBPP
Robert Greenstein, executive director, CBPP
DATE: January 24, 2002
CONTACT: Michelle Bazie, 202-408-1080.
WEB ADDRESS: cbpp.org
TIME: 11 a.m.
EVENT: CATO INSTITUTE holds a policy forum entitled Eye in the Sky--and Everywhere Else: Do Biometric Technologies Violate Our Rights?
WHO: The speakers are:
Joseph J. Atick, Visionics Corp.
Marc Rotenberg, Electronic Privacy Information Center
Dorothy E. Denning, Georgetown University
John D. Woodward Jr., RAND.
DATE: January 24, 2002
LOCATION: Cato Institute, 1000 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-789-5229
WEB ADDRESS:cato.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: NATIONAL ECONOMIST CLUB holds its luncheon program with Gerald Grisse, European Central Bank Representative o the International Monetary Fund, "The Euro - Europe's New Money."
DATE: January 24, 2002
LOCATION: Hudson Institute, 3rd floor, 1015 18th St., NW
Washington, DC
CONTACT: 703-739-9404
WEB ADDRESS: national-economists.org
TIME: 12:15 p.m.
EVENT: NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION presents Robert D. Kaplan is a correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly and the best-selling author of seven previous books on travel and foreign affairs discussing and signing copies of his new book Warrior Politics: Why Leadership Demands a Pagan Ethos.
DATE: January 24, 2002
LOCATION: 1630 Connecticut Ave., NW, 7th Floor, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Jud Mathews, 202-986-4901
WEB ADDRESS: newamerica.net
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: RESOURCES FOR THE FUTURE features Timur Kuran, University of Southern California discussing The Provision of Public Goods Under Islamic Law. Throughout the Middle East, the Islamic "waqf" system historically served as a means of giving property owners economic security in return for social services, thus essentially delivering public goods to society in a decentralized manner.
DATE: January 24, 2002
LOCATION: 1616 P Street, NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-328-5000
WEB ADDRESS: rff.org
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: INDEPENDENT WOMEN'S FORUM holds its luncheon featuring "Hardball" Host Chris Matthews discussing his new book, Now, Let Me Tell You What I Really Think.
DATE: January 24, 2002
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Jeff Rosenberg at 301-972-2367 or Margaret Carroll at 703-558-4991
WEB ADDRESS:iwf.org
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: WOMAN'S NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC CLUB holds its luncheon program with Leon Fuerth, longtime foreign policy adviser to Al Gore, discussing foreign policy challenges that the United States may be facing in the first decades of the 21st century. September 11, 2001.
DATE: January 24, 2002
LOCATION: 1526 New Hampshire Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-232-7363
WEB ADDRESS: democraticwomen.org
TIME: 1 p.m.
EVENT: DEMOCRATIC LEASERSHIP COUNCIL holds a program on "Long-Term Agenda For American Growth and Prosperity."
WHO: The speakers are:
Al From, Founder, DLC
House Democratic Leader Richard Gephardt, D-MO
DATE: January 24, 2002
LOCATION: Washington Court Hotel, 525 New Jersey Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-546-0007
WEB ADDRESS:dlc.org
TIME: 1 p.m.
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program on "El Salvador's Democratic Transition Ten Years after the Peace Accord."
WHO: The speakers are:
Ricardo Guillermo Castaneda, Consejo Empresarial Salvadoreño para el Desarrollo Sostenible, former Salvadoran Ambassador to the United Nations
Rubén Zamora, political leader and former Chair, Political Science Department, University of El Salvador
Miguel Cruz, Universidad Centroamericana
José Simeón Cañas, Instituto Universitario de Opinión Pública (IUDOP), Commentator: Terry Karl, Director, Latin American Studies, Stanford University
Sandra Barraza, Coordinadora, Comisión Nacional de Desarrollo
William Pleitéz, United Nations Development Program, San Salvador, Commentator: José Roberto López-Calix, Senior Economist for El Salvador, The World Bank
DATE: January 24, 2002
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
TIME: 3:30 p.m.
EVENT: CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL PRIVATE ENTERPRISE holds a program on Media and Globalization: The Role of the Arab Press with Don Kimmelman, Pew Charitable Trusts.
DATE: January 24, 2002
LOCATION: 1155 15th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-721-9200
WEB ADDRESS:cipe.org
TIME: 4 p.m.
EVENT: CATO INSTITUTE holds a book forum entitled "How the Dismal Science Got Its Name."
WHO: The speakers are:
David M. Levy, George Mason University
Sandra J. Peart, Baldwin-Wallace College
DATE: January 24, 2002
LOCATION: Cato Institute, 1000 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-789-5229
WEB ADDRESS:cato.org
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: KENNEDY CENTER MILLENIUM STAGE presents The Levine School of Music Youth Wind Symphony, Jazz Ensemble & Jazz.
DATE: January 24, 2002
LOCATION: 2700 F Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-416-8000
WEB ADDRESS: kennedy-center.org
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS holds a program featuring Abdullah Abdullah, Minister of Foreign Affairs for the Interim Administration of Afghanistan.
DATE: January 24, 2002
LOCATION: St. Regis Hotel, 923 16th & K Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 212-434-9537
WEB ADDRESS:cfr.org
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY Center For Contemporary Arab Studies holds a panel discussion on Covering the War on Terrorism.
WHO: The speakers are:
Marvin Kalb, Executive Director of the Washington office of the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy
Hafez Al-Mirazi, Washington Bureau Chief of Al-Jazeera Satellite Television
Rami G. Khouri, internationally syndicated Columnist and Nieman Fellow at Harvard University
Jacques Charmelot, Senior Diplomatic Correspondent of Agence France-Press
Dr. Michael C. Hudson, Moderator, Professor of Arab Studies and International Relations at Georgetown University
DATE: January 24, 2002
LOCATION: 37TH and O Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-687-4327
WEB ADDRESS:Georgetown.edu
TIME: 6:30 p.m.
EVENT: CENTER FOR POLICY ANALYSIS ON PALESTINE presents an exhibition entitled JASMINE & STONE: Faces of the Middle East-Photographs of Tunisians, Egyptians, and Palestinians by photographer Elena Farsakh who was raised in the United States and the Middle East by her Palestinian/Muslim father a and American/Jewish mother.
DATE: January 24, 2002
LOCATION: 2425 Virginia Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-338-1290
WEB ADDRESS: palestinecenter.org
TIME: 7 p.m.
EVENT: POLITICS & PROSE BOOKSTORE Washington Writers' Publishing House presents:
Poets Bernard Jankowski and Margaret Weaver will reading from their respective works, The Bullfrog Does Not Imagine New Towns And Escaping Words
Fiction writer Phillip Kurata will also read from his new novel set in North Africa, The Reluctant Agent
DATE: January 24, 2002
LOCATION: 5015 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-364-1919
WEB ADDRESS: politics-prose.com
TIME: 8 pm.
EVENT: GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY Lisner Auditorium presents 2nd Annual Flamenco Festival D.C. Gala of Andalucia.
WHO: Featured Artists:
El Guito, the great Gypsy dancer
Manuela Carrasco, one of the most passionate representatives of flamenco puro
Israel Galván, "the Nijinsky of Flamenco
Manuel Soler, "the master of flamenco rhythms" María Pagés, a leading innovator in the development of modern flamenco who will perform her award winning "El Perro Andaluz. Burlerias"
DATE: January 24, 2002
LOCATION: 800 21st Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-994-6800
WEB ADDRESS:lisner.org
