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EVENTS ON THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 2002
TIME: 9 a.m.
EVENT: COMPETITIVE ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE holds a meeting discussing strategies to counter the domestic terror groups.
WHO: The speakers are:
Rep. Scott McInnis, R-CO
Nick Nichols, CEO of Nichols
James Jarobem FBI
Kelly Stoner, Stop of Eco-Violence
DATE: March 7, 2002
LOCATION: Reserve Office Assn., One Constitution Avenue NE, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-331-1010
WEB ADDRESS:cei.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER KENNEN INSTITUE FOR ADVANCED RUSSIAN STUDIES holds a program on Genomics and Our Environmental Future.
AGENDA: Highlights:
Greetings and Introductions
David Rejeski, Director, Foresight and Governance Project, Wilson Center
9:15 a.m. - Quick Tour of the Genomics Frontier
Thane Kreiner, Ph.D., Vice President, Corporate Affairs, Affymetrix, Inc.
9:45 a.m. - Ten Ways Genomics Could Change Environmental Policy
Gary Marchant, J.D., Ph.D., Executive Director; Center for the Study of Law, Science, and Technology, Arizona State University
DATE: March 7, 2002
LOCATION: Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
TIME: 9 a.m.
EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a lecture entitled "Interface of Human Rights and Humanitarian Action in the Democratic Republic of Congo" with Suliman Baldo, senior researcher in the African division of Human Rights Watch.
DATE: March 7, 2002
LOCATION: 1619 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-663-5626
WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org
TIME: 9 a.m.
EVENT: AMERICAN DIABETES ASSOCIATION AND ENTELOS TO ACCELERATE DIABETES RESEARCH holds a pharmaceutical research forum.
WHO: The speakers are:
John Graham, CEO, American Diabetes Association
James Karis, President, Entelos, Inc.
Ty Rabb, Director of High Performance Technical Computing Solutions, Compaq Computer Corp.
DATE: March 7, 2002
LOCATION: National Press Club, Zenger Room, 529 14th Street NW, Washington DC
CONTACT: Ruth Igoe or Michael Brandfon, 312-944-6784
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: CONGRESSIONAL WOMEN'S CAUCUS holds a briefing on violence against women.
WHO: The speakers are:
Actress Nancy McKeon
Linda Chavez-Thompson, AFL-CIO
Meredith Wagner, Lifetime Entertainment Services
Diane Stuart, Department of Justice
DATE: March 7, 2002
LOCATION: 2168 Rayburn Office Building, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-637-5295
WEB ADDRESS: house.gov
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: KIDS COUNT news conference to discuss Children at Risk: State Trends 1990-2000. The report is the first analysis of conditions affecting the nation's children based on new data from the U.S. Census Bureau. Published by the Annie E. Casey Foundation and the Population Reference Bureau, the study provides a sweeping look at state-by-state trends in child well being over the past decade.
WHO: The speakers are:
Bill O'Hare, Annie E. Casey Foundation
John Haaga, Population Reference Bureau
DATE: March 7, 2002
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Phil Sparks, 202-326-8700
TIME: 10:15 a.m.
EVENT: GLOBAL BUSINESS DIALOGUE holds a program featuring Chilies Ambassador to the US Andres Bianchi discussing the Chile-US Free Trade Agreement.
DATE: March 7, 2002
LOCATION: The St. Regis, 16th and K Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-463-5074
WEB ADDRESS: gbdinc.org
TIME: 10:30 a.m.
EVENT: REP. GARY ACKERMAN, D-NYNEW YORK'S CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION, NYC PBA OFFICIALS & AVIATION SECURITY EXPERTS hold a news conference to announce the first in the nation pilot program to use retired law enforcement officers as security screeners at New York's John F. Kennedy (JFK) International Airport.
DATE: March 7, 2002
LOCATION: House Triangle, U.S. Capitol, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-225-2601
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: AMERICAN UNIVERSITY Washington College of Law holds an International Women's Day Discussion on the Legal Status of Women in Southern Africa with Thandabantu Nhlapo, minister and deputy chief of mission, Embassy of South Africa; AU Law Women and International Law Program and International Legal Studies Program
DATE: March 7, 2002
LOCATION: 4400 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-885-5950
WEB ADDRESS:au.edu
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: NATIONAL ECONOMIST CLUB holds its luncheon program with John Graham, Director, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget, "Presidential Management of the Regulatory State.
DATE: March 7, 2002
LOCATION: Montpelier Room, 6th floor, Madison Building, 101 Independence Av., SE
Washington, DC
CONTACT: 703-739-9404
WEB ADDRESS: national-economists.org
TIME: 12:15 p.m.
EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES presents SAIS-Novartis International Journalism Awards Program will screen, "Beneath the Veil," a documentary about Saira Shah's journey inside Afghanistan to view the plight of women, secretly filming their lives under the Taliban.
DATE: March 7, 2002
LOCATION: 1619 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-663-5626
WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: WOMAN'S NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC CLUB presents Nan Aron, founder and President of the Alliance for Justice, who has been in the forefront in advocating for a fair judiciary discussing The Courts Under Bush: How the Administration's Judicial Nominees Threaten Our Civil Rights.
DATE: March 7, 2002
LOCATION: 1526 New Hampshire Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-232-7363
WEB ADDRESS: democraticwomen.org
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: MITSUBISHI MOTORS U.S.A. FOUNDATION AND PBS TV'S "TO THE CONTRARY WITH BONNIE ERBE" will co-sponsor the fifth annual "Unsung Heroines Awards" luncheon to recognize four women from across the nation whose dedication to the service of others has made a significant and positive impact on their communities.
AGENDA: Honorees include:
Carolyn Downs, Sioux Falls, SD: Sen. Tom Daschle, D-SD, will honor Ms. Downs for her work as Director of the "The Banquet," a facility that provides food, clothing, shelter, and other assistance to thousands of Sioux Falls community residents each year.
Noreen Keating, Oakland County, Michigan: Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-MI, will honor Ms. Keating for her work as President of Lighthouse of Oakland County, Inc., a facility that provides food, clothing, shelter, and many other services to thousands of community residents each year.
Betty Lidsky, Miami, Florida: Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, D-FL will honor Ms. Lidsky for her extensive work through the "Heart Sight Miami" chapter of The Foundation Fighting Blindness. Lidsky founded the Miami chapter to raise public awareness, government involvement, and above all, funds for scientific research to find the cures for blinding diseases.
Terry Neese, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma: Rep. J.C. Watts, R-OK, will honor Ms. Neese for her service as founder of "The Terry Neese Center for Entrepreneurial Excellence," which she founded to help entrepreneurs start new businesses or expand their existing ones with special outreach efforts given to women and minority business owners.
DATE: March 7, 2002
LOCATION: B. Smith's Restaurant, Union Station, 50 Massachusetts Ave, NE,
CONTACT: Dan Hubbard by phone at 202-828-8877
TIME: 1 p.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL LEAGUE OF CITIES holds a news conference to discuss homeland security.
DATE: March 7, 2002
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-626-3003
WEB ADDRESS: nlc.org
TIME: 2 p.m.
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program on Evaluating the Quality of Democracy in Latin America Jonathan Hartalyn, Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Kurt Weyland, Professor, the University of Texas at Austin.
DATE: March 7, 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: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program on the Origins of Russian Research Centers in America in the 1940s: Early Choices between Scholarly Integrity and Government Direction
WHO: The speakers are:
Viachaslav Kozliakov, Professor of History, Riazan State Pedagogical University, and ECA Regional Exchange Scholar, Kennan Institute;
David Engerman, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Brandeis University.
DATE: March 7, 2002
LOCATION: Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
TIME: 5 p.m.
EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a lecture entitled Shusha Assar Guppy, the prize-winning Iranian author of Three Journeys in the Levant and London editor of The Paris Review literary journal, will give her reflections of the peoples and places in Jordan, Syria and Lebanon.
DATE: March 7, 2002
LOCATION: 1740 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-663-5626
WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org
TIME: 6:30 p.m.
EVENT: CENTER FOR POLICY ANALYSIS ON PALESTINE holds a discussion and book signing with professor of history at West Chester University in Pennsylvania, is the author of Islamic Fundamentalism and numerous articles on the Middle East and foreign policy in the region discussing America's Palestine: Popular and Official Perceptions from Balfour to Israeli Statehood.
DATE: March 7, 2002
LOCATION: 2425 Virginia Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-338-1290
WEB ADDRESS: palestinecenter.org
TIME: 7 p.m.
EVENT: POLITICS & PROSE BOOKSTORE presents Louis Sell discussing and signing copies of SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC AND THE DESTRUCTION OF YUGOSLAVIA. Sell sketches Milosevic's rural Montenegrin childhood and marriage to Mirjana Markovic, from a leading Communist family, and shows how a mid-level bureaucrat morphed into a dangerous nationalist.
DATE: March 7, 2002
LOCATION: 5015 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-364-1919
WEB ADDRESS: politics-prose.com
TIME: 11:30 a.m.
EVENT: EMILYS LIST holds its powerup luncheon honoring Sen. Tom Daschle, D-SD and Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-CA.
DATE: March 7, 2002
LOCATION: Washington Hilton, 1919 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-326-1448
WEB ADDRESS: emilyslist.org
