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WEEK AHEAD EVENTS FOR TUESDAY, MAY 21, 2002
TIME: 8:30 a.m.
EVENT: CHAMBER OF COMMERCE hosts Ambassador Clodoaldo Hugueney and Deputy U.S. Trade Representative Peter Allgeier discussing perspectives on market access negotiations in the Free Trade Area of the Americas, the World Trade Organization negotiations and their linkage to the FTAA, and Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) legislation.
DATE: May 21, 2002
LOCATION: 1615 H Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-463-5682
WEB ADDRESS:uschamber.com
TIME: 8:30 a.m.
EVENT: RADIO FREE EUROPE/RADIO LIBERTY holds a program featuring Mykola Melnichenko Former Bodyguard, Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma discussing Did Ukraine Sell Arms To Iraq?
DATE: May 21, 2002
LOCATION: 1201 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-457-6949
WEB ADDRESS:rferl.org
TIME: 1 p.m.
EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a conference New Developments in Electric Market Restructuring."
AGENDA: Highlights:
1 p.m. - Welcoming Remarks
1:15 p.m. - Overview of Market Restructuring: Issues and Direction
1:30 p.m. - Keynote address by William Hogan, Harvard University
2:15 p.m. - Wholesale Markets and RTO Formation
4 p.m. - Role of Demand Response in Competitive Power Markets
DATE: May 21, 2002
LOCATION: 1740 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-663-5626
WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org
TIME: 4:30 p.m.
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program on Litigating for Gender Equality.
WHO: The speakers are:
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, United States Supreme Court
Marcia Greenberger, Co-President, National Women's Law Center
Michael Maurer, Civil Rights Division, Department of Justice
DATE: May 21, 2002
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
Wednesday, May 22, 2002
TIME: 9:30 a.m.
EVENT: CENTER FOR IMMIGRATION STUDIES holds a news conference to examines how foreign terrorists entered and remained in the country over the past decade.
WHO: The speakers are:
Steven A. Camarota, author of the report and Director of Research, Center for Immigration Studies
Jan Ting, Professor of Law at Temple University and a former Assistant Commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service
Mark J. Miller, professor of political science and international relations, University of Delaware
DATE: May 22, 2002
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: John Keeley, 202-466-8185
WEB ADDRESS: cis.org
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: RESOURCES FOR THE FUTURE holds a program on "Is Consensus an Appropriate Basis for Regulatory Policy?" with Cary Coglianese, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
DATE: May 22, 2002
LOCATION: 1616 P Street, NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-328-5000
WEB ADDRESS: rff.org
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB holds its "Luncheon Newsmaker" news program featuring Sen. Tom Daschle, D-SD.
DATE: May 22, 2002
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-662-7500
WEB ADDRESS: npc.press.org
Thursday, May 23, 2002
TIME: 11 a.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION holds a news conference to discuss findings on the content and
structure of the early universe. The news conference focuses on images from the Cosmic Background Imager (CBI), an interferometer that detects the cosmic microwave background--the radiation that began its journey to Earth shortly after the Big Bang.
WHO: The speakers are:
Anthony Readhead- Rawn Professor of Astronomy, California Institute of Technology
Alan Guth - Weisskopf Professor of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
DATE: May 23, 2002
LOCATION: National Science Foundation, Room 110, 4201 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, VA
CONTACT: Amber Jones, 703-292-8070
WEB ADDRESS: nsf.gov
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: HERITAGE FOUNDATION holds a program entitled "Bridging the Education Gap: What the Research Shows on School Vouchers."
WHO: The speakers are:
Paul E. Peterson, Ph.D. Harvard University
Richard D. Komer Institute for Justice
Nina Shokraii Rees Deputy Assistant to the Vice President on Domestic Policy
DATE: May 23, 2002
LOCATION: 214 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-675-1752
WEB ADDRESS:heritage.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: NATIONAL ECONOMIST CLUB holds its luncheon program featuring Maury Harris, chief economist, UBS Warburg, discussing cyclical issues facing the economy, including unemployment, household leverage, technology, as well as Fed policy. He will emphasize his rather optimistic multiyear outlook on technological change and productivity, and discuss the dollar's future from global bank's perspective.
DATE: May 23, 2002
LOCATION: Chinatown Garden Restaurant, 618 H Street, NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 703-739-9404
WEB ADDRESS: national-economists.org
Friday, May 24, 2002
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB holds its "Luncheon Newsmaker" news program featuring Ossie Davis, actor and Host of the National Memorial Day Concert.
DATE: May 24, 2002
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-662-7500
WEB ADDRESS: npc.press.org
