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EVENTS ON TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2002
TIME: All Day
EVENT: NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC. holds a program on Tax Policy and the Economy
AGENDA: Highlights:
8:30 a.m. - David Figlio, University of Florida and NBER
Fiscal Implications of School Accountability Initiatives
Edward Glaeser, Harvard University and NBER
Jesse Shapiro, Harvard University
The Benefits of the Home Mortgage Interest Deduction
10:15 a.m. - Matthew Shapiro And Joel Slemrod, University of Michigan and NBER
Did the 2001 Tax Rebate Stimulate Spending? Evidence from Taxpayer Surveys
Jegadeesh Gokhale, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
Laurence Kotlikoff, Boston University and NBER
Who Gets Paid to Save?
11:40 a.m. - Julie Collins And Douglas Shackelford, University of North Carolina and NBER
Do U.S. Multinationals Face Different Tax Burdens than Other Companies
Mihir Desai, Harvard University and NBER
The Corporate Profit Base, Tax Sheltering Activity, and the Changing Nature of Employee Compensation
1 p.m. - Randall Kroszner, Council of Economic Advisers and University of Chicago
DATE: October 8, 2002
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Rob Shannon, 717-868-3900
WEB ADDRESS: nber.org
TIME: All Day
EVENT: REGULATORY AFFAIRS PROFESSIONALS SOCIETY holds its annual conference.
AGENDA: Highlight:
11 a.m. -- Town Hall to discuss the challenges of incorporating business and professional ethics. Speakers will examine today's critical issues in business and professional ethics, and their meaning for an emerging regulatory profession.
Sherry Keramidas, PhD, Executive Director, RAPS
Frank J. Navran, Director, Training/Principal Consultant, The Ethics Resource Center
Lee WanVeer, Director of Advisory Services, The Ethics Resource Center
DATE: October 8, 2002
LOCATION: Hilton Washington, 1919 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Hillary Ross, 301-770-2920, ext. 245
WEB ADDRESS: raps.org
TIME: 8:30 a.m.
EVENT: CHAMBER OF COMMERCE holds a program to discuss "Aviation and the Economy" will examine the ongoing impacts from terrorism insurance, added security costs, reduced passenger loads, as well as ways to strengthen and build the future of this essential industry.
WHO: The speakers are:
John L. Mica, Aviation Subcommittee Chairman, U.S. House of Representatives
Leo F. Mullin, President & CEO, Delta Air Lines, Inc.
Donald J. Carty, Chairman & CEO, AMR Corp. & American Airlines
Marion C. Blakey, FAA Administrator
Thomas J. Donohue, President and CEO, US Chamber of Commerce
DATE: October 8, 2002
LOCATION: 1615 H Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-463-5682
WEB ADDRESS: uschamber.com
TIME: 9 a.m.
EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a lecture entitled "Humanitarianism in Crisis: Have Relief Organizations Become Part of the Problem?" with David Rieff, author and policy analyst, will offer a critical
examination of humanitarian organizations as detailed in his new book, A Bed for the Night: Humanitarianism in Crisis.
DATE: October 8, 2002
LOCATION: 1740 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-663-5626
WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org
TIME: 9:30 a.m.
EVENT: THE COALITION FOR SMARTER GROWTH holds a news conference releasing its Blueprint for a Better Region -- a technically sophisticated answer to the "how" of the Smart Growth debate.
AGENDA: The Blueprint provides specific visual examples of how Smart Growth is not "no growth," but a means of encouraging balanced economic growth in the right places. Developed using technical information from a high quality analysis of regional growth, these visuals use sophisticated graphics that have the power to rally a community that largely understands the problem of sprawl, but sees no achievable solution
WHO: The speakers are:
Roy Kienitz, Secretary of Planning, State of Maryland (confirmed)
David Harrington, Mayor of Bladensburg, MD (confirmed)
David Snyder, Council Member, Falls Church, VA (confirmed)
Andy Altman, Director, DC Office of Planning (invited)
DATE: October 8, 2002
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Laura Olsen, 202-588-5570 ext 4#
WEB ADDRESS: smartgrowth.net
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE holds a Book Forum on "An Unlikely Conservative: The Transformation of an Ex-Liberal."
WHO: Speakers are:
Christopher DeMuth, AEI
Linda Chavez, Center for Equal Opportunity
DATE: October 8, 2002
LOCATION: 1150 17th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-862-5933
WEB ADDRESS:aei.org
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB holds its "Morning Newsmaker" news program featuring The Newly crowned Miss America 2003, Erika Harold, discussing her campaign to fight youth violence. She is working with the federal government in the effort she has titled "Empowering Youth Against Violence: Respect Yourself: Protect Yourself."
DATE: October 8, 2002
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-662-7500
WEB ADDRESS: npc.press.org
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: SENATORS JOSEPH BIDEN AND BARBARA BOXER hold a news conference to support the Treaty for the Rights of Women. The Treaty for the Rights of Women.
AGENDA: The Treaty for the Rights of Women, formally known as the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), provides women in 170 countries around the world with a legal framework from which they can fight for their rights.
WHO: The speakers are:
Her Majesty Queen Noor of Jordan
Farida Azizi of Afghan Women's Network
Sister Judy Cannon of Leadership Conference of Women Religious
Dr. William F. Schulz of Amnesty International USA
Martha Burk of National Council of Women's Organizations
DATE: October 8, 2002
LOCATION: 419, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Washington DC
CONTACT: Kris Mejia, 202-326-8705
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: ARAB THOUGHT FOUNDATION AND THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE PRESIDENT DR. JAMES ZOGBY hold a breakfast briefing to release its new book: "What Arabs Think: Values, Beliefs and Concerns."
DATE: October 8, 2002
LOCATION: 1800 K Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Jennifer Salan, 202-429-9210 ext. 21
WEB ADDRESS:zogby.com
TIME: 10:30 a.m.
EVENT: AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE holds a book forum and trade policy seminar on "Going Alone: The Case for Relaxed Reciprocity in Freeing Trade."
WHO: The speakers are:
Jagdish Bhagwati, editor
J. Michael Finger, AEI
Arvind Panagariya, University of Maryland
Lawrence White, New York University
Claude E. Barfield, AEI
DATE: October 8, 2002
LOCATION: 1150 17th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-862-5933
WEB ADDRESS:aei.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service The BMW Center of German and European Studies holds a program on "The Fate of an Enlarged European Union: Geo-economic Giant or Political Dwarf?" with Professor Vittorio Parsi, Catholic University of Milan.
DATE: October 8, 2002
LOCATION: 37TH and O Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-687-8316
WEB ADDRESS: Georgetown.edu
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: THE FOUNDATION FOR MIDDLE EAST PEACE holds a briefing on Israeli Politics, The Palestinian Intifada, and Rescuing the Peace Process," with Naomi Chazan, Deputy Speaker of the Israeli Knesset.
DATE: October 8, 2002
LOCATION: CEIP, 1779 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-483-7600
WEB ADDRESS:ceip.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program on Post-election Scenarios in Slovakia with Sharon Fisher, Senior Economist, Emerging Europe Division, DRI-WEFA, Inc. and Title VIII-JSTS alumna.
DATE: October 8, 2002
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES features Christopher Meyer, ambassador of the United Kingdom to the United.
States.
DATE: October 8, 2002
LOCATION: 1740 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-663-5626
WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB holds its "Luncheon Newsmaker" news program featuring Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Thomas J. Donohue discussing the political impact of business scandals, the consequences of congressional reforms, and the role that uncertain economic conditions play in executive suite decisions.
DATE: October 8, 2002
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-662-7500
WEB ADDRESS: npc.press.org
TIME: 1 p.m.
EVENT: INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF TEAMSTERS holds a news conference to discuss the National Master Freight Agreement Exchange of Bargaining Goals.
WHO: The speakers are:
James Hoffa, president, General Teamsters
Phil young, freight Director General Teamsteres
Jim Stanley, Roadway Express
Tim Lynch, Motor Freight Carriers Association
DATE: October 8, 2002
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-624-6911
WEB ADDRESS: teamsters.org
TIME: 2 p.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB holds its "Luncheon Newsmaker" news program featuring Ambassador of Denmark to the United States, Ulrik Federspiel, will discuss Europe's Global Responsibility.
DATE: October 8, 2002
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-662-7500
WEB ADDRESS: npc.press.org
TIME: 2 p.m.
EVENT: CENTER ON BUDGET AND POLICY PRIORITIES will hold a conference call briefing on problems facing the State Children's Health Insurance Program that Congress may act upon before it goes home. One problem stems from a provision of current law under which substantial amounts of SCHIP funds not yet used (but needed in future years) expired and reverted to the Treasury on September 30. Congress may seek to include provisions related to this matter in the long-term Continuing Resolution (CR) it will pass before adjourning.
WHO: The speakers are:
Cindy Mann, former director of the SCHIP program, now Research Professor, Georgetown University
Edwin Park, Senior Health Policy Analyst, CBPP
DATE: October 8, 2002
CONTACT: Michelle Bazie, 202-408-1080.
WEB ADDRESS:cbpp.org
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: KENNEDY CENTER MILLENIUM STAGE presents The Chestnut Brass Company, a Grammy Award-winning quintet, have been featured on National Public Radio's "All Things Considered," "Fresh Air," "Radiotimes," and "Performance Today" programs.
DATE: October 8, 2002
LOCATION: 2700 F Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-416-8000
WEB ADDRESS: kennedy-center.org
TIME: 6:20 p.m.
EVENT: COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS holds a program on U.S. Policy Toward Iraq featuring Sen. Carl Levin, D-MI, Chairman of the Armed Services Committee Walter Slocombe, Caplin & Drysdale, Chartered; former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy.
DATE: October 8, 2002
LOCATION: 1779 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Marieke Beeuwkes, 212-434-9537
WEB ADDRESS: cfr.org
TIME: 7 p.m.
EVENT: POLITICS & PROSE BOOKSTORE presents Swarthmore Book Group Lecture featuring Gil Rose, Professor of Classics Emeritus at Swarthmore, discussing "The Katabasis in Homer and Virgil."
DATE: October 8, 2002
LOCATION: 5015 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-364-1919
WEB ADDRESS: politics-prose.com
TIME: 7:30 p.m.
EVENT: GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY holds a lecture by Dr. Christopher Wilson, early modern convent art.
DATE: October 8, 2002
LOCATION: 37TH and O Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-687-4328
WEB ADDRESS: Georgetown.edu
