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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
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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