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Washington Agenda - General News Events

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EVENTS ON MONDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2002

TIME: All Day

EVENT: NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIVERSITY Africa Center For Strategic Studies holds its senior leader seminar.

AGENDA: Highlight:

10 a.m. -- Opening Ceremony with Dr. Nancy Walker, director, Africa Center For Strategic Studies

Ambassador Ibrahim Gambari, Under Secretary and Special Advisor to the Secretary General of the United Nations

DATE: February 4, 2002

LOCATION: Marriott Wardman Park, 2660 Woodley Road NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 703-6 02-2830

WEB ADDRESS: africacenter.org

TIME: All Day

EVENT: NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES conference features More than 500 private college presidents and other higher education leaders will meet with Bush administration and congressional officials, leading higher education researchers and

Strategists, and institutional management and marketing experts.

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AGENDA: Highlights:

2:15 p.m. - Convening of the Annual Meeting

Loren J. Anderson, President, Pacific Lutheran University, and NAICU Board Chair

David L. Warren, President, NAICU

Welcome to Washington

Anthony A. Williams, Mayor, District of Columbia

2:30 p.m. - Plenary Session: The Honorable Ralph Regular,

U.S. House of Representatives (R-Ohio)

"The Real World of Congress"

3 p.m. - Michael Benchless

September 11 & History: How to Understand the Attack on America and What it Means for Our Future

DATE: February 4, 2002

LOCATION: Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill Hotel, 400 New Jersey Avenue NW, Washington, D.C.

CONTACT: 202- 737-1234

WEB ADDRESS: naicu.edu

TIME: 8:30 a.m.

EVENT: AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE holds a health policy discussion with physician and economist Mark B. McClellan, M.D. A member of the President's Council of Economic Advisers and a health care adviser to the National Economic Council at the White House.

DATE: February 4, 2002

LOCATION: 1150 17th Street NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-862-5933

WEB ADDRESS: aei.org

TIME: 11 a.m.

EVENT: CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a program on United States, Italy Battle Terrorism.

WHO: The speakers are:

Ferdinand Sale, Italian Ambassador to the United States

Edward Outtake, CSIS Senior Fellow

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Michael Rossini, CEO, Parma at, North America

DATE: February 4, 2002

LOCATION: 1800 K Street NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: Mark Schoeff, 202-775-3242

WEB ADDRESS: csis.org

TIME: 12 noons

EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program on Regional Russia in Transition: Comparing Yugoslav to the Russian Far East with Jeffrey Hahn, Professor, Department of Political Science, Villanova University, and former short-term Scholar, Kennan Institute.

DATE: February 4, 2002

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

Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-287-3400

WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu

TIME: 12:30 p.m.

EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a lecture entitled "China in Transition: The Role of Migrant Workers" with Anne Thurston, associate professor of China studies at SAIS.

DATE: February 4, 2002

LOCATION: 1740 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-663-5626

WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org

TIME: 12:30 p.m.

EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB holds its "Luncheon Newsmaker" news program featuring David Snatcher, U.S. Surgeon General.

DATE: February 4, 2002

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

CONTACT: 202-662-7500

WEB ADDRESS: npc.press.org

TIME: 1:30 p.m.

EVENT: CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a policy forum with Sen. Joseph R. BIDEN, Jr., and Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman, discussing Policy Priorities.

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DATE: February 4, 2002

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 presents acoustic string band, Daisy Mayhem dipping into country blues, swing, gospel, Appalachian, funk and folk, as well as classic jazz standards.

DATE: February 4, 2002

LOCATION: 2700 F Street NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-416-8000

WEB ADDRESS: kennedy-center.org

TIME: 6:20 p.m.

EVENT: COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS holds a program on "Covering the War: Travels With the Northern Alliance."

WHO: The speakers are:

Sebastian Junger, correspondent, ABC News

Frank Sesno, CNN Contributor

DATE: February 4, 2002

LOCATION: The Washington Club, 15 Dupont Circle NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 212-434-9537

WEB ADDRESS:cfr.org

TIME: 6:30 p.m.

EVENT: GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY AND ENGLISH SPEAKING UNION hold a forum on "American Education: Prospects and Challenges."

WHO: The speakers are:

Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, GW president and professor of Public Administration and author of, "Thinking Out Loud" and "Speaking His Mind"

Graham Down, former executive director of The Council for Basic Education and consultant to The College Board, Phi Beta Kappa, The Council of Chief State School Officers, and The American Academy for Liberal Education

Jack Jennings, director of The Center on Education Policy and author of, "Why National Standards and Tests?"

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Laura Sessions Stepp, Pulitzer Prize winner for her reporting on health and family Issues in The Washington Post and author of, "Our Last Best Shot: Guiding our Children through Early Adolescence"

Michael Usdan, president of The Institute for Educational Leadership and former commissioner of higher education for the state of Connecticut

DATE: February 4, 2002

LOCATION: Marvin Center Room 307, 800 21st Street NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-234-4602

WEB ADDRESS:gwu.edu

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