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EVENTS ON WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 2002
TIME: All Day
EVENT: NATIONAL COUNCIL OF CHURCHES holds an ecumenical conference on welfare reauthorization themed "TANF Action Days in Washington." In 2002 the U.S. Congress must reauthorize Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, the Food Stamp Program, and the Child Care and Development Block Grant, three crucial programs addressing domestic poverty. The programs will end if they are not reauthorized.
AGENDA: Highlight:
2 p.m. -- Lenten Vigil: Act To Leave No Child Behind, U.S. Capitol, Washington, DC
3 p.m. -- Registration National City Christian Church, Thomas Circle, 15th and M Streets NW, Washington, DC
DATE: March 13, 2002
CONTACT: 202-544-2350
WEB ADDRESS: ncccusa.org
TIME: All Day
EVENT: NATIONAL RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION, NATIONAL RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION, 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: All Day
EVENT: CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND AMERICAN IRANIAN COUNCIL hold a conference entitled "The United States and Iran: Is Confrontation Necessary?" Confrontation Necessary?"
WHO: The speakers are:
Sen. Joseph Biden, D-DE
Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-NE
Sen. Robert Torricelli, D-NJ
Glandomenico Picco (Former Assistant Secretary, UN)
Zalmay Khalilzad, Special Assistant to President George W. Bush
DATE: March 13, 2002
LOCATION: 1615 H Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-463-5682
WEB ADDRESS: uschamber.com
TIME: 7:30 a.m.
EVENT: NORTHERN VIRGINIA TECHNOLOGY COUNCIL'S Early Stage Capital Committee will present a breakfast program on angel investing in 2002.
WHO: The speakers are:
John May, co-author of Every Business Needs an Angel, co-founder of The Dinner Club, The Washington, Dinner Club & The eMedia Club
Steve Walker, Angel Investor & Managing Partner, Walker Ventures
Dr. Ed Bersoff, Angel Investor & CEO of ReRoute (angel backed) and former Chairman, President & CEO of BTG
Dr. Richard Williams, Life Science Angel Investor & former VP of R&D at Igen International
John Burton, Angel Investor & Managing Director, Updata Capital
Ching-Ho Fung, Angel Investor & Chairman of Cyracle Technologies (angel backed)
DATE: March 13, 2002
LOCATION: The Ritz Carlton, 1700 Tyson's Boulevard, McLean, Virginia
CONTACT: 703-904-7878 x287
WEB ADDRESS: nvtc.org
TIME: 8 a.m.
EVENT: GLOBAL CITIZENS CIRCLE holds a breakfast program with David Trimble, First Minister, and Mark Durkan Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland.
DATE: March 13, 2002
LOCATION: Jurys Hotel, 2401 M Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: i202-367-0462
WEB ADDRESS: nibureau.com
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
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: 11 a.m.
EVENT: CATO INSTITUTE holds a debate on "Resolved: If Judges Must Be Elected, They Must Be Free to Campaign for Election."
WHO: The speakers are:
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
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
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB holds its "Luncheon Newsmaker" news program featuring Mayor of New York Michael Bloomberg discussing "New York's Fiscal Future."
DATE: March 13, 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: JUDICIAL WATCH holds a news conference with Special FBI agent Robert Wright discussing the anti-terrorist investigations.
DATE: March 13, 2002
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-649-5172
WEB ADDRESS: judicialwatch.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: HERITAGE FOUNDATION holds a program entitled Crisis in the Judicial Confirmation Process. In 1998, at a time when there were 50 judicial vacancies, Senator Leahy stated that the number of vacancies represented a "judicial vacancy crisis." Currently there are 96 vacancies in the federal judiciary.
WHO: The speakers are:
Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-KY
Edwin J. Feulner, Ph.D., President, The Heritage Foundation
DATE: March 13, 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 Johnnie L. Cochran, Jr.
DATE: March 13, 2002
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-662-7500
WEB ADDRESS: npc.press.org
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: RESOURCES FOR THE FUTURE holds a program on Aboriginal People and Resource Management in Canada with Vic Adamowicz, University of Alberta and Gilbert White Fellow, Resources for the Future.
DATE: March 13, 2002
LOCATION: 1616 P Street, NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-328-5000
WEB ADDRESS: rff.org
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: CENTER FOR POLICY ANALYSIS ON PALESTINE holds a luncheon briefing on Externally Directed Separation: A New Plan for Israeli-Palestinian Peace featuring Dr. Jerome Segal, senior research scholar at the University of Maryland Center for International and Security Studies, and founder of the Jewish Peace Lobby.
DATE: March 13, 2002
LOCATION: 2425 Virginia Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-338-1290
WEB ADDRESS:palestinecenter.org
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED
INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a lecture entitled "Challenges in Deregulating Electricity:
Drawing the Right Lessons from California" with Timothy Brennan, senior fellow at Resources for the Future.
DATE: March 13, 2002
LOCATION: 1619 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-663-5626
WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program on The Citizen Soldier: An Idea Whose Time Has Come (Again)?
WHO: The speakers are:
Charles Moskos, Wilson Center Visiting Fellow and Annenburg Visiting Fellow, Professor of Sociology at Northwestern University, and Chairman of the Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society General
Edward C. Meyer (USA, ret.), former Chief of Staff, U.S. Army
DATE: March 13, 2002
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
TIME: 1 p.m.
EVENT: REP. STENY HOYER, D-MD, MAYOR TONY WILLIAMS, DELEGATE ELEANOR HOLMES NORTON, MEMBERS OF THE DC/FEDERAL CITY COUNCIL holds a news conference to discuss the South Capitol Gateway Study and the Anacostia Waterfront Initiative
DATE: March 13, 2002
LOCATION: The Pump House at 1st and Potomac Streets, SE, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-225-4131
WEB ADDRESS: house.gov
TIME: 2:45 p.m.
EVENT: SEN. ED KENNEDY, D-MA, AND IRISH PRIME MINISTER BERTIE AHERN hold a news conference.
DATE: March 13, 2002
LOCATION: S-211, U.S. Capitol, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-224-2633
WEB ADDRESS: sen.gov
TIME: 4 p.m.
EVENT: CATO INSTITUTE holds a Book Forum "Drug War Addiction."
WHO: The speakers are:
Author, Sheriff Bill Masters, San Miguel County, Colorado
William Otis, Former Federal Prosecutor
DATE: March 13, 2002
LOCATION: Cato Institute, 1000 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-789-5229
WEB ADDRESS:cato.org
TIME: 5 p.m.
EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES Central Asia-Caucasus Institute holds a lecture entitled "Georgia: Stability Menaced?"
WHO: The speakers are:
Kenneth Yalowitz, former U.S. ambassador to Georgia
William Courney, former U.S. ambassador to Georgia
Irakly Areshidze, visiting fellow at the SAIS
DATE: March 13, 2002
LOCATION: 1619 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-663-5626
WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org
TIME: 5 p.m.
EVENT: UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND AND CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS hold a reception announcing Oracle's grant for education and technology.
WHO: The speakers are:
William Gray, president, UNCF
Larry Ellison, president, Oracle Corp.
Rep. Eddie Bernie Johnson, D-TX
DATE: March 13, 2002
LOCATION: B-369 Rayburn Office Building, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-703-305-3454
WEB ADDRESS: uncf.org
TIME: 5:30 p.m.
EVENT: AMERICAN UNIVERSITY presents fourth annual Grotius Lecture featuring Moises Naim, editor Foreign Policy Magazine; Elizabeth Rindskopf Parker, former general counsel, CIA, Department of Defense, State Department; AU Law International Legal Studies Program, American Society of International Law.
DATE: March 13, 2002
LOCATION: 4400 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-885-5950
WEB ADDRESS:au.edu
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY Elliott School of International Affairs presents a lecture Welling Visiting Professor and Cold War expert John Lewis Gaddis.
DATE: March 13, 2002
LOCATION: 800 21st Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 301- 994-3087
WEB ADDRESS:gwu.edu
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: LEAGUE OF UNITED LATIN AMERICAN CITIZENS hold its fifth annual awards gala honoring Celebrating Legislative Service to the Hispanic Community.
WHO: Honorees include:
Secretary of State Colin L. Powell
Sen. Joseph Lieberman, D-CT
Rep. Silvestre Reyes, D-TX
Program Participants:
Rep. Robert Menendez, D-NJ
Rep. Hilda Solis, D-CA
Jorge Santini, Mayor, San Juan, PR
Rick Dovalina, LULAC National President
DATE: March 13, 2002
LOCATION: J W Marriott, 1331 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-833-6130
WEB ADDRESS: lulac.org
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: WASHINGTON INTERNATIONAL TRADE ASSOCIATION holds a book release for Terrorism and Business: The Impact of September 11 featuring authors Dean C. Alexander and Yonah Alexander.
DATE: March 13, 2002
LOCATION: 1516 New Hampshire Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-312-1600
WEB ADDRESS: wita.org
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: KENNEDY CENTER MILLENIUM STAGE presents Quebecois trio Matapat delighting audiences of all ages with their infectious French-Canadian music and dance.
DATE: March 13, 2002
LOCATION: 2700 F Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-416-8000
WEB ADDRESS: kennedy-center.org
TIME: 7 p.m.
EVENT: POLITICS & PROSE BOOKSTORE presents Israeli writer David Grossman reveals the character of antiquarian book dealer Yair Einhorn through his amorous letters in "In My Knife."
DATE: March 13, 2002
LOCATION: 5015 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-364-1919
WEB ADDRESS: politics-prose.com
