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EVENTS ON FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 2002

TIME: All Day

EVENT: BIOTECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY ORGANIZATION AND WINDHOVER INFORMATION hold the BIO-Windhover Partnering Conference.

AGENDA: Highlights:

8:30 a.m. - Plenary: Due Diligence: What Can Be Done?

Robert P. Brady, Partner, Hogan & Hartson, LLP

John Doll, US Patent & Trademark Office

Sam Saks, Company Group Chairman, Alza Corporation, a division of Johnson & Johnson

Christine de los Reyes, Senior Director, Licensing & Development, Pfizer Inc.

10:30 a.m. - Business Development: Emerging Patterns in Platform,

Discovery & Clinical-Phase Deal Structures

Scott Morrison, National Director, Life Sciences, Ernst & Young

Arlene Morris, Pres. and CEO, Clearview Projects, Inc.

Bob Jones, Partner, Cooley Godward, LLP

Steve Holtzman, Pres. and CEO, Infinity Pharmaceuticals

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Stelios Papadopoulos, Managing Director, SG Cowen Securities Corporation

LOCATION: Ritz Carlton, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-962-9200

WEB ADDRESS: bio.org

TIME: All Day

EVENT: EDUCATION WRITERS ASSOCIATION holds its 2002 National Seminar titled

"Whose Truths? Perspectives, Perceptions and the Public Good."

AGENDA: Highlight:

1 p.m. -- Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-MA

DATE: April 26, 2002

LOCATION: Wyndam City Center Hotel, 1143 New Hampshire Ave. NW

Washington, D.C.

CONTACT: Stephanie Cutter or Jim Manley, 202-224-2633

TIME: All Day

EVENT: AMERICAN FEDERATION OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO will host a rally and informational picket to issue an enforceable ergonomics standard that protects federal employees and other workers in the U.S.

DATE: April 26, 2002

LOCATION: U.S. Department of Labor, 200 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-639-6419

WEB ADDRESS: afge.org

TIME: 8 a.m.

EVENT: FRONTIERS OF FREEDOM holds an Early Bird Freedom Briefing with Judge Kenneth W. Starr discussing Campaign Finance Reform and the upcoming court battle.

DATE: April 26, 2002

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

CONTACT: 703-246-0110, Ext. 109

WEB ADDRESS: ff.org

TIME: 8:30 a.m.

EVENT: CHAMBER OF COMMERCE presents U.S. Trade Representative Robert Zoellick discussing trade promotion authority and the upcoming senate debate.

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DATE: April 26, 2002

LOCATION: 1615 H Street NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-463-5682

WEB ADDRESS: uschamber.com

TIME: 8:30 a.m.

EVENT: NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION holds a breakfast meeting entitled A Digital Opportunity Trust: Reinvesting Spectrum Revenue in New Public Assets

WHO: The speakers are:

James Billington, Librarian of Congress

Larry Grossman, former President, PBS & NBC News

Tom Kalil, Assistant to the Chancellor for Science and Technology, UC

Berkeley

Henry Kelly, President, Federation of American Scientists

Wade Henderson, Executive Director, Leadership Conference on Civil

Rights (invited)

John Lawson, President, America's Public Television Stations

C. Peter Magrath, President, National Association of Land Grant and

State Universities

Michael Calabrese, Public Assets Program, New America Foundation

DATE: April 26, 2002

LOCATION: 1630 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-986-4901

WEB ADDRESS: newamerica.net

TIME: 9 a.m.

EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES Conflict Management and Security entitled "Insights into Negotiating"

AGENDA: Highlights:

9 a.m. - Dr. Daniel Druckman, Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University

Dr. Howard Wolpe, Woodrow Wilson Center

Ambassador Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah, Global Coalition for Africa

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Dr. Harold Saunders, The Kettering Foundation

11 a.m. - Dr. Saadia Touval, SAIS, Conflict Management Program

Ambassador Herman Cohen, Cohen and Woods International

Dr. Joyce Neu, The Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice, University of San Diego

Dr. James Schear, Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University

1:30 p.m. - Dr. Terrence Hopmann, Moderator

Thomas J. Watson Jr. Institute for International Studies, Brown University

Dr. Andrea Bartoli, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University

Ambassador Robert Oakley, Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University

Dr. I. William Zartman, Conflict Management Program, SAIS

3:30 p.m. - Dr. Dean Pruitt, Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University

Dr. Chester Crocker, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University

James O'Brien, The Albright Group

Luigi Einaudi, Assistant Secretary General, Organization of American States

DATE: April 26, 2002

LOCATION: 1740 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-663-5626

WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org

TIME: 9 a.m.

EVENT: AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE SEMINAR SERIES IN TAX POLICY presents Do Democracies Bankrupt Social Security Programs? Social Security systems around the world are in financial trouble. One explanation for this phenomenon is that politically active elderly voters are more likely to support candidates who favor generous retirement benefits.

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WHO: The speakers are:

Casey Mulligan, University of Chicago

Nicholas Eberstadt, AEI

Eric M. Engen, AEI

Kevin A. Hassett, AEI

DATE: April 26, 2002

LOCATION: 1150 17th Street NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-862-5933

WEB ADDRESS:aei.org

TIME: 10 a.m.

EVENT: POPULATION RESOURCE CENTER breakfast briefing on Immigration and the US with Doug Massey, Ph.D., Dorothy Swaine Thomas Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Sociology Department, University of Pennsylvania

DATE: April 26, 2002

LOCATION: 2322 Rayburn Office Building, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-467-5030

WEB ADDRESS: prcdc.org

TIME: 10 a.m.

EVENT: CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a program entitled "U.S.-Venezuelan Relations."

WHO: The speakers are:

Lino Gutierrez, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Hemispheric Affairs, U.S. State Department

Luis Herrera Marcano, Chargé d'Affaires, Embassy of Venezuela

DATE: April 26, 2002

LOCATION: 1800 K Street NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: Mark Schoeff, 202-775-3242

WEB ADDRESS:csis.org

TIME: 10:30 a.m.

EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER Director's Forum with Vernon Jordan, Senior Managing Director of Lazard Freres & Company, LLC in New York.

DATE: April 26, 2002

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

Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-287-3400

WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu

TIME: 11 a.m.

EVENT: WASHINGTON REGIONAL ALCOHOL PROGRAM holds its annual Geico Student Awards program. The program recognizing high school student's organizations who are promoting alcohol and drug-free lifestyles to their peers.

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DATE: April 26, 2002

LOCATION: MCI, 601 F Street NW, Washington DC

CONTACT: 703-893-0461

WEB ADDRESS:wrap.org

TIME: 12 noon

EVENT: CATO INSTITUTE holds a hill briefing on Financial Privacy and the War on Terrorism.

WHO: The speakers are:

David R. Burton, Prosperity Institute

J. Bradley Jansen, Free Congress Foundation

Veronique de Rugy, Cato Institute.

DATE: April 26, 2002

LOCATION: B-369 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-789-5229

WEB ADDRESS:cato.org

TIME: 12 noon

EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a lecture entitled "Shattered Innocence: The Exploitation of Children in the Balkans" with Christine Dolan, an investigative reporter.

DATE: April 26, 2002

LOCATION: 1717 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-663-5626

WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org

TIME: 12:15 p.m.

EVENT: CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS holds a its public service seminar Congressional luncheon

Featuring Rep. Alcee Hastings, D-FL.

WHO: The speakers are:

DATE: April 26, 2002

LOCATION: 1200 U Street NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-675-6739

WEB ADDRESS: cbcf.org

TIME: 6 p.m.

EVENT: THE AMERICAN MUSLIM COUNCIL will hold its 2nd Annual National Imam/Leadership Conference

AGENDA: Highlights:

8:30 a.m. - Dr. Yahya Basha, President, AMC

9:30 p.m. - Peaceful Family Dynamics And Community Resilience Project

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Sharifa Alkhateeb, Director, Peaceful Family Project

DATE: April 26, 2002

LOCATION: Hilton Mark Center Hotel, Alexandria, Virginia.

CONTACT: 202-789-2262.

WEB ADDRESS:amconline.org

TIME: 6 p.m.

EVENT: KENNEDY CENTER MILLENIUM STAGE features Guitarist Eddie Pennington, a 2001 National Heritage Fellow, performing in the thumbpicking style made famous by Mose Ranger.

DATE: April 26, 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 Richard Rodriguez discussing and signing copies of Brown: The Last Discovery of America, which is not purely about race. But also describes the many paradoxes within us as individuals and as a country.

DATE: April 26, 2002

LOCATION: 5015 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-364-1919

WEB ADDRESS: politics-prose.com

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