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EVENTS ON WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, 2002
TIME: All Day
EVENT: AMERICAN SOCIETY OF NEWSPAPER EDITORS holds its 2002 conference
AGENDA: Highlights:
8 a.m. - Address by Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, D-SD
12:30 p.m. - ASNE Leadership Award presentation: Crisis in the Catholic Church
Michael Paulson, Religion Reporter, The Boston Globe
Father James A. Coriden, Professor of Church Law and Dean Emeritus, Washington Theological Union
Father C. John McCloskey III, Director, Catholic Information Center
DATE: April 10, 2002
LOCATION: JW Marriott, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 703-453-1122
WEB ADDRESS: asne.org
TIME: 9:30 a.m.
EVENT: SENATE REPUBLICAN CONFERENCE CHAIRMAN SEN. RICK SANTORUM, R-PA, holds a pen and pad briefing.
DATE: April 10, 2002
LOCATION: S-211, U.S. Capitol, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-224-3582
WEB ADDRESS: senate.gov
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE holds a program on Microsoft Antitrust: Dueling Remedies. Microsoft has cut a deal with the Department of Justice, proposing a settlement to the antitrust case that would regulate the way the company develops and markets Windows and related software. But half of the state attorneys general who were parties to the suit have refused to sign on, and have asked the court to impose far tougher remedies that would fundamentally alter the competitive landscape in PC operating systems and business applications.
WHO: The speakers are:
Robert W. Hahn, AEI-Brookings Joint Center
Robert E. Litan, AEI-Brookings Joint Center
George Priest, Yale University Law School
Steven C. Salop, Georgetown University Law Center
Richard L. Schmalensee, MIT Sloan School of Management
DATE: April 10, 2002
LOCATION: 1150 17th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-862-5933
WEB ADDRESS:aei.org
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: ALASKA COALITION, ALASKA WILDNESS LEAGUE, DEFENDERS OF WILDLIFE, hold a rally to oppose the drilling of the Artic Refuge.
DATE: April 10, 2002
LOCATION: Upper Senate Park, U.S. Capitol, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-365-1581
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: HOUSE MAJORITY WHIP TOM DELAY, R-TX, holds a news conference to discuss welfare reform.
DATE: April 10, 2002
LOCATION: H-137, U.S. Capitol, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-225-0197
WEB ADDRESS: house.gov
TIME: 10:30 a.m.
EVENT: UNITED STATES INSTITUTE OF PEACE holds a current issues briefing entitled "Crisis In the Middle East: The Israeli View."
WHO: The speakers are:
Amb. Zalman Shoval, Senior Adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon & former Israeli Ambassador to the United States
Amb. Samuel Lewis
Former President, U.S. Institute of Peace & former U.S. Ambassador to Israel
DATE: April 10, 2002
LOCATION: 1200 17th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-429-3832
WEB ADDRESS: usip.org
TIME: 11 a.m.
EVENT: SOUTHEASTERN LEGAL FOUNDATION holds a news conference to discuss a lawsuit filed today by U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-KY in the District of Columbia federal district court. The lawsuit, McConnell v. Federal Elections Commission, Federal Communications Commission, challenges the constitutionality of multiple provisions of the Shays-Meehan so-called campaign finance "reform" bill signed into law this morning by President George W. Bush.
AGENDA: Highlight:
DATE: April 10, 2002
LOCATION: S-207, U.S. Capitol, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 713-975-8618
WEB ADDRESS: southeasternlegal.org
TIME: 11 a.m.
EVENT: SEN. JOHN KYL, R-AZ, hosts an address by former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
DATE: April 10, 2002
LOCATION: 124 Dirksen Office Building, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-224-4521
WEB ADDRESS: senate.gov
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: AMERICAN TO BAN CLONING holds a briefing entitled "Cures Not Clones," to discuss Recent news has circulated that a renegade fertility specialist may have implanted a cloned embryo, and that the pregnancy is at least eight weeks along.
WHO: The speakers are:
Sen. Sam Brownback, R-KS, prime sponsor of S. 1899, the Brownback-Landrieu "Human Cloning Prohibition Act"
Patricia Heaton, two-time Emmy winner best known for her role as Debra in the hit CBS comedy, "Everybody Loves Raymond"
Joni Eareckson Tada, Director Emeritus, Christian Council on Persons with Disabilities
Dr. Anton-Lewis Usala, Founder of two biotechnology companies developing human tissue regeneration therapies; Clinical Prof., Section Head, Pediatric Endocrinology, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University.
Dr. Jean Peduzzi-Nelson, Neuroscientist pursuing a cure for spinal cord injury; Research Assoc. Professor, University of Alabama at Birmingham
James Kelly, patient advocate with spinal cord injury (SCI) and activist for SCI research and cures
Dr. Tom P. Dooley, CEO of Huntsville biotech firm IntegriDerm Inc; co-founder and former President of Biotechnology Association of Alabama
Margaret Colin, Film and Broadway star, known for her roles in "Three Men and a Baby," "Independence Day" and in Broadway's "Jackie"
Chuck Colson, Chairman, Prison Fellowship Ministries and The Wilberforce Forum
William Kristol, Editor of "The Weekly Standard" and Chairman of the Bioethics Project and Stop Human Cloning
DATE: April 10, 2002
LOCATION: 562 Dirksen Office Building, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 703-684-8352
WEB ADDRESS: cloninginformation.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: THE CENTER FOR NONPROLIFERATION STUDIES (CNS) AT THE MONTEREY INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a program entitled The Office of Homeland Security: Meeting the Challenge of WMD and Mass Casualty Terrorism."
Featuring Dr. Richard Falkenrath, director of policy and plans, Office of Homeland Security
DATE: April 10, 2002
LOCATION: 1050 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-478-3409
WEB ADDRESS:cns.miis.edu
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: COALITION DE VALORES, TRADICIONALES holds a news conference to support Miguel Estrada a judicial nominee for the court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.
DATE: April 10, 2002
LOCATION: Senate Swamp, U.S. Capitol, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-547-8570
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a lecture entitled "From Creative Destruction to Destructive Creativity" with Mario Catalan, SAIS professor of international economics.
DATE: April 10, 2002
LOCATION: 1619 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-663-5626
WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: REP. STENY HOYER, D-MD AND REP. BARON HILL, D-IN, hold a news conference to pay-off of their wager on the NCAA Men's Basketball Championship.
DATE: April 10, 2002
LOCATION: House Triangle, U.S. Capitol, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202- 225-4131
WEB ADDRESS: house.gov
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: RESOURCES FOR THE FUTURE holds a lecture on Sulfur Dioxide Banking Under Title IV of the Clean Air Act Amendments with A. Denny Ellerman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
DATE: April 10, 2002
LOCATION: 1616 P Street, NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-328-5000
WEB ADDRESS: rff.org
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: ACT UP NEW YORK AND HEALTH GAP GLOBAL ACCESS PROJECT hold a demonstration calling for immediate increases in money from Congress for affordable AIDS treatment and prevention in developing countries, where 95% of people with HIV live. Activists are also calling for new action from Congress on debt cancellation for countries hardest hit by AIDS.
WHO: The speakers are:
AIDS Activists, Danny Glover
Rep. Barbara Lee, D-CA
DATE: April 10, 2002
LOCATION: US Capitol Steps, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 212-674-9598 or 917-612-3058
TIME: 1 p.m.
EVENT: COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS holds a meeting to discuss NATO's Future After September 11 featuring Secretary General f NATO Lord George Robertson.
DATE: April 10, 2002
LOCATION: Washington Club, 15 Dupont Circle NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 212-434-9536
WEB ADDRESS: cfr.org
TIME: 1 p.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB holds its "Luncheon Newsmaker" news program featuring Cambodian Opposition Leader, Sam Rainsy, discussing "Post-Election Political Environment in Cambodia."
DATE: April 10, 2002
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-662-7500
WEB ADDRESS: npc.press.org
TIME: 2:30 p.m.
EVENT: GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY presents members of the Scottish Parliament, Andrew Wilson MSP (Shadow Economy Minister) and Duncan Hamilton MSP along with Angus Robertson MP (Shadow Scottish Minister for Foreign Affairs) of the Westminster Parliament in London will make short presentations on the development of Scottish democracy.
DATE: April 10, 2002
LOCATION: Riggs Library, Healy Hall, 37TH and O Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-687-4328
WEB ADDRESS:Georgetown.edu
TIME: 3 p.m.
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a book launch for Race Experts: How Racial Etiquette, Sensitivity Training, and New Age Therapy Hijacked the Civil Rights Revolution with Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn, author, Professor of History, Syracuse University, and former Wilson Center Fellow.
DATE: April 10, 2002
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
TIME: 5 p.m.
EVENT: AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE AND THE HUDSON INSTITUTE present former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sharing his thoughts on the current Middle East violence and analyzes the future of U.S.-Israeli relations, in the midst of Secretary of State Colin Powell's mission to the Middle East.
DATE: April 10, 2002
LOCATION: 1150 17th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-862-5933
WEB ADDRESS:aei.org
TIME: 5:30 p.m.
EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a lecture with Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska discussing "U.S. Policy Toward Central Asia: The Present and the Future.
DATE: April 10, 2002
LOCATION: 1740 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-663-5626
WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org
TIME: 5:30 p.m.
EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a lecture entitled "Post-Milosevic Serbia: Privatization and Small Business Development" with Alexandar Vlahovic, minister of Economy and Privatization of Serbia, and Mirko Cvetkovic, deputy minister of Economy and Privatization of Serbia.
DATE: April 10, 2002
LOCATION: 1619 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-663-5626
WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: ELIZABETH GLASSER PEDIATRIC AIDS FOUNDATION holds its "A Night To Unite," gala.
WHO: The attendees include:
Sen. Mike DeWine, R-OH
Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-CT,
Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-UT
Morty Bahr, President of the Communications Workers of America
DATE: April 10, 2002
LOCATION: National Building Museum, 401 F Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-296-9195
WEB ADDRESS: pedaids.org
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: KENNEDY CENTER MILLENIUM STAGE features National Symphony Orchestra Youth Fellows.
DATE: April 10, 2002
LOCATION: 2700 F Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-416-8000
WEB ADDRESS: kennedy-center.org
TIME: 6:30 p.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB Book Rap presents Sen. Bill Frist, R-TN, discussing When Every Moment Counts: What You Need to Know about Bioterrorism from the Senate's Only Doctor."
DATE: April 10, 2002
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-662-7500
WEB ADDRESS: npc.press.org
TIME: 6:30 p.m.
EVENT: ARAB AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOUNDATION holds its annual Kahlil Gibran "Spirit of Humanity" Awards. The annual gala dinner honors individuals, corporations, organizations and communities that have demonstrated a commitment to humanitarian values and cultural understanding consistent with the ideals exemplified by Arab American poet and author Kahlil Gibran.
WHO: The attendees include:
Musician Sting
Michael Gross of Family Ties
Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle
House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt
INS Commissioner James Ziglar
Harlem Globetrotters
Actor F. Murray Abraham
DATE: April 10, 2002
LOCATION: 16th and K Streets, NW Washington, DC, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202- 429-9210
WEB ADDRESS:aaiusa.org
TIME: 7 p.m.
EVENT: POLITICS & PROSE BOOKSTORE presents Hasia Diner and Beryl Benderly who have Now, together authored Her Works Praise Her a warm account weaving the stories of individual Jewish women through American history.
DATE: April 10, 2002
LOCATION: 5015 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-364-1919
WEB ADDRESS: politics-prose.com
TIME: 7 p.m.
EVENT: CAMPAIGN FOR AMERICA'S FUTURE holds a conference on Reclaiming America: Progressive Strategies for the New Era.
WHO: The speakers are:
MC Molly Ivins - Columnist, Author
Warren Beatty*- Actor, Political Activist
Rep. Nancy Pelosi - House Minority Whip
Gerald McEntee - President, AFSCME
Sen. Jon Corzine - D-NJ
DATE: April 10, 2002
LOCATION: Hyatt Regency - Capitol Hill, 400 New Jersey Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-955-5665
WEB ADDRESS: ourfuture.org
