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EVENTS ON MONDAY, MARCH 11, 2002

Tuesday, March 12, 2002

TIME: 12 noon

EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program on "Crossroads: Beyond the Veil: Women's Minds and Politics of the Middle East."

WHO: The speakers are:

Valentine M. Moghadam, Wilson Center Fellow, Director of Women's Studies and Associate Professor of Sociology, Illinois State University

Elaine Sciolino, Senior Writer, Washington Bureau of the New York Times and author, Persian Mirrors: The Elusive Face of Iran

DATE: March 12, 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: WOMAN'S NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC CLUB features Theresa Loar, President of Vital Voices Global Partnership, was a principal advisor to then First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton and Secretary of State Madeleine Albright on international women's issues.

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DATE: March 12, 2002

LOCATION: 1526 New Hampshire Avenue NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-232-7363

WEB ADDRESS: democraticwomen.org

TIME: 1 p.m.

EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB holds its "Luncheon Newsmaker" news program featuring Dr. Solomon Passy, Minister of Foreign Affairs/Bulgaria

DATE: March 12, 2002

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

CONTACT: 202-662-7500

WEB ADDRESS: npc.press.org

Wednesday, March 13, 2002

TIME: All Day

EVENT: THE NATIONAL RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION, NATIONAL RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION AND ITS INTERNATIONAL FOOD SAFETY COUNCIL AND FOOD SAFETY MAGAZINE hold the Food Safety Summit. It is the conference and expo for food safety professionals. Our focus is on giving you practical, hands-on advice and methods you can use in your own operations, as well as the very latest updates on regulatory, scientific, and news issues that affect your food safety effort

DATE: March 13, 2002

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

CONTACT: 800-746-9649 or 973-514-5900.

WEB ADDRESS: foodsaftysummit.com

TIME: 8:30 a.m.

EVENT: RADIO FREE EUROPE/RADIO LIBERTY holds a program featuring Laith Kubba, Senior Program Officer for the Middle East & North Africa, National Endowment for Democracy discussing Civil Society in Iraq: Overlooked Resource?

DATE: March 13, 2002

LOCATION: 1201 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC

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CONTACT: 202-457-6949

WEB ADDRESS:rferl.org

TIME: 9 a.m.

EVENT: AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE holds a conference on Is GAAP Accounting Worth Fighting For? The Enron scandal has raised questions about the quality of the Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) that are at the foundation of the accounting system in use in the United States. Meanwhile, the SEC's insistence that GAAP is superior to the International Accounting Standards (IAS) used in Europe seems to have created a significant obstacle to the development of a globalized securities market

AGENDA: Highlights:

9 a.m. - Peter J. Wallison, AEI

9:15 a.m. - Panel 1: Is a Conflict over Accounting Systems Preventing the Development of a Globalized Securities Market?

Claude E. Barfield, AEI

Lawrence J. White, New York University

Robert C. Dinerstein, Union Bank Of Switzerland

Felice Friedman, Securities And Exchange Commission

Charles P. Heeter, Arthur Andersen

11 a.m. - Panel 2: Is GAAP Truly Better Than IAS?

Peter J. Wallison, AEI

Christian Leuz, Wharton School, University Of Pennsylvania

George Benston, Emory University

Robert Herz, PricewaterhouseCoopers and International Accounting Standards Board

12 noon - Does Competition Offer a Way to Resolve the GAAP v. IAS Controversy?

Shyam Sunder, Yale University

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1:30 p.m. - Panel 3: Do We Need a New Accounting Model?

Peter J. Wallison, AEI

Robert K. Elliott, KPMG (retired)

Feng Gu, Boston University

Robert E. Litan, Brookings Institution

DATE: March 13, 2002

LOCATION: 1150 17th Street NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-862-5933

WEB ADDRESS:aei.org

TIME: 12 noon

EVENT: CATO INSTITUTE holds a debate on Resolved: If Judges Must Be Elected, They Must Be Free to Campaign for Election with James Bopp Jr., General Counsel, James Madison Center for Free Speech; vs. Roy Schotland, Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center

DATE: March 13, 2002

LOCATION: Cato Institute, 1000 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-789-5229

WEB ADDRESS:cato.org

Thursday, March 14, 2002

TIME: 10 a.m.

EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB holds its "Morning Newsmaker" news program featuring Vice Admiral Richard H. Truly, Director, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, discussing critical need for increased attention to developing renewable energy technologies that reduce America's vulnerability from disruption to our energy supply, whatever the source: terrorism, economic or political pressure, or natural disaster.

March 14, 2002

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

CONTACT: 202-662-7500

WEB ADDRESS: npc.press.org

TIME: 12 noon

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EVENT: NATIONAL ECONOMIST CLUB holds its luncheon program features Javier Hamann, Policy Development and Review, International Monetary Fund, on exchange rate regimes.

DATE: March 14, 2002

LOCATION: Hudson Institute, 3rd floor, 1015 18th St., NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 703-739-9404

WEB ADDRESS: national-economists.org

Friday March 15, 2002

TIME: 9:30 a.m.

EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB holds its "Morning Newsmaker" news program featuring The Ambassador of Peru to the U.S., His Excellency Allan Wagner, will discuss President George W. Bush's March 23 Visit to Peru.

DATE: March 15, 2002

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

CONTACT: 202-662-7500

WEB ADDRESS: npc.press.org

TIME: 12 noon

EVENT: HERITAGE FOUNDATION holds a program on Against All Hope: A Memoir Of Life in Castro's Gulag featuring Armando Valladares Author Dan Fisk The Heritage Foundation

DATE: March 15, 2002

LOCATION: 214 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-675-1752

WEB ADDRESS:heritage.org

TIME: 12:30 p.m.

EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB holds its "Luncheon Newsmaker" news program featuring President and CEO of the Chrysler Group of DaimlerChrysler Corp.

DATE: March 15, 2002

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

CONTACT: 202-662-7500

WEB ADDRESS: npc.press.org

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