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EVENTS ON THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2002
TIME: All Day
EVENT: ALLIANCE TO SAVE ENERGY holds the Associates Summit on Energy Efficiency themed Charting a Course for Economic, Environmental, and Energy Security.
AGENDA: Highlights:
9 a.m. - Opening Remarks
David M. Nemtzow, President, Alliance to Save Energy
9:10 a.m. - Welcome Address
Dean T. Langford, former CEO of OSRAM SYLVANIA, Co-Chair, Alliance to Save Energy
9:30 a.m. - Getting to Yes on Energy Efficiency in Congress
Sen. Byron L. Dorgan, Chair, Alliance to Save Energy
Rep. W.J. "Billy" Tauzin (invited)
10:45 a.m. - The 2002 Energy Bill: What Does it Mean for the Nation?
David K. Garman, Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, U.S. Department of Energy
Karen Knutson, Deputy Assistant for Domestic Policy, Vice President Cheney
Laura Cohn, Correspondent, Business Week
Eric Washburn, Senior Energy Policy Advisor, Senate Majority Leader
Mark Mellman, CEO, The Mellman Group
12:15 p.m. - Doing Well By Doing Good: Why Supporting Energy Efficiency Makes Sound Business Sense
Tina Settecase, Vice President and General Manager, Sears Appliances
12:40 p.m. - Energy, Environment, and Good Business
Dr. Kathleen Hogan, Director, Climate Protection Partnerships Division, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
1 p.m. - Lunch and Keynote Speaker
Gregg Easterbrook, Senior Editor, The New Republic
2 p.m. - Beyond the Beltway: How States are Driving the Energy Agenda
David M. Nemtzow, President, Alliance to Save Energy
William M. Flynn, President, New York State Energy Research and Development Authority
Ralph Cavanagh, Co-Director, Energy Program, Natural Resources Defense Council
Edward A. Garvey, Commissioner, Minnesota Public Utilities Commission
3 p.m. - The World Outlook for Energy
Guy Caruso, Administrator, Energy Information Administration
4 p.m. - Closing Remarks
Mark Hopkins, Vice President, Alliance to Save Energy
DATE: October 10, 2002
LOCATION: Almas Ballroom, 1315 K Street, NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202- 530-2203
WEB ADDRESS: ase.org
TIME: All Day
EVENT: MIDDLE EAST INSTITUTE holds a program on 56th Annual Conference entitled "Turbulence and Transition in US-Middle East Relations."
AGENDA: Highlights:
9 a.m. - Opening Remarks
Edward S. Walker, Jr., President, Middle East Institute
9:15 a.m. - Keynote Address
Gen. Anthony C. Zinni (USMC-Ret.)
10:30 a.m. - Europe, the UN and the United States:
Congruence and Divergence in Middle East Policy
Giandomenico Picco, GDP Associates
Thomas Pickering, Boeing Company
Tamara Cofman Wittes, Middle East Institute
2:15 p.m. - Non-OPEC Energy Sources: Challenge and Response
Raad Alkadiri, Petroleum Finance Company
Thane Gustafson, Cambridge Energy Research Associates*
William Ramsay, International Energy Agency
David L. Mack, Middle East Institute
DATE: October 10, 2002
LOCATION: Capital Hilton, 16th and K Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-785-1141
WEB ADDRESS: mideasti.org
TIME: 8:20 p.m.
EVENT: COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS holds a program to discuss a new bi-partisan strategy for making
the U.S. more effective at the UN.
WHO: The speakers are:
Rep. David Dreier, R-CA, Chairman of the House Rules Committee
Lee Hamilton, Director, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
DATE: October 10, 2002
LOCATION: Capitol, Room H-313, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Marieke Beeuwkes, 212-434-9537
WEB ADDRESS: cfr.org
TIME: 9 a.m.
EVENT: HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL, HARVARD MEDICAL INTERNATIONAL, HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH, THE ANNENBERG CENTER AND KEY3MEDIA GROUP, INC. hold a news conference discussing Biosecurity 2002.
WHO: The speakers are:
Greg Ciottone, MD, Director, Division of International Disaster and Emergency Medicine,
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; Instructor in Medicine, Harvard
Medical School; President and CEO, Emergency Management Visions
International
Frederick Bieber, PhD, Medical Geneticist, Brigham and Women's Hospital; Associate Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School
Kenneth Shine, MD, Sponsoring Organization, Director, RAND Center for Domestic and International Health Security
Robert K. Crone, MD, Chair, BioSecurity Program Committee, President and CEO, Harvard Medical International
Miles Shore, MD, Vice-Chair, Program Committee, Bullard Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Harvard Medical, International, JFK School of Government, Harvard University
Fredric D. Rosen, Chairman and CEO, Key3Media Group
DATE: October 10, 2002
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Dena Cook, 323-848-4300
WEB ADDRESS: biosecuritysummit.com
TIME: 11 a.m.
EVENT: ENTAINER PAT BOONE holds news conference releasing a new song "Under God" in support of the pledge of allegiance.
DATE: October 10, 2002
LOCATION: Cannon Office Building, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-293-3040
WEB ADDRESS: solterspr.com
TIME: 11 a.m.
EVENT: CENTER ON BUDGET AND POLICY PRIORITIES will hold a conference call briefing to discuss $65 billion in proposed new tax breaks aimed at investors that were approved October 8 by the House Ways and Means Committee.
WHO: The speakers are:
Dr. Peter Orszag, Senior Fellow in Economic Studies, Brookings Institution
Joel Friedman, Senior Fellow, CBPP
Robert Greenstein, Executive Director, CBPP
DATE: October 10, 2002
CONTACT: Michelle Bazie, 202-408-1080.
WEB ADDRESS:cbpp.org
TIME: 11 a.m.
EVENT: HERITAGE FOUNDATION holds a program entitled Taiwan and China's Succession: Partisan Views Across Taiwan's Political Spectrum.
WHO: The speakers are:
Bi-khim Hsiao, DPP-Overseas
Dr. Raymond Wu, People First Party
Dr. Philip S. Hsu, Institute for International Relations
Dr. Da-nien Liu, Chunghwa Inst. for Econ. Research
DATE: October 10, 2002
LOCATION: 214 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-675-1752
WEB ADDRESS:heritage.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: FOREIGN POLICY IN FOCUS (A PROJECT OF THE INSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES AND THE INTERHEMISPHERIC RESOURCE CENTER); MIDDLE EAST RESEARCH AND INFORMATION PROJECT; FOURTH FREEDOM FORUM; GLOBAL EXCHANGE; NATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR WOMEN; GLOBAL SECURITY INSTITUTE, NATIONAL COUNCIL OF CHURCHES; AND WOMEN'S ACTION FOR NEW DIRECTIONS hold a news conference to declare opposition to war.
WHO: The speakers are:
Barbara Ehrenreich, author of the best-seller Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
Rev. Bob Edgar, president, National Council of Churches
Ben Cohen, co-founder, Ben & Jerry's, founder, Business Leaders for Sensible Priorities
Ambassador Jonathan Dean, Union of Concerned Scientists
Other Prominent Speakers:
Robert Borosage, co-director, Campaign for America's Future
Linda Fuller, co-founder, Habitat for Humanity International
Anas (Andy) Shallal, Iraqi-American businessman
Olga Vivas, action vice president, National Organization for Women
Captain Julia Dyckman (ret), Gulf War veteran and medical expert on Gulf War Syndrome
Jonathan Granoff, president, Global Security Institute
Richard Falk, professor of international law, Princeton University
Bill Fletcher, president, TransAfrica
Michael Klare, professor, Hampshire College
DATE: October 10, 2002
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Page Crosland, 202-822-5200 x272
WEB ADDRESS: ips-dc.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: METLIFE holds a news conference to release the results of a new survey that identifies the factors and forces at work in students' lives that lead to success in and out of school. The MetLife Survey of the American Teacher, 2002: Student Life -- School, Home and Community also underscores that responsibility for education does not lie solely with the schools; however, educators could do more to understand students' interests, needs, and lives outside of school.
WHO: The speakers are:
Sibyl Jacobson, President, MetLife Foundation
Gerald Tirozzi, Executive Director, National Association of Secondary School Principals
Humphrey Taylor, Chairman, Harris Interactive
Carol Tureski, Humanities Teacher, International High School, New York, NY
Olivia Ifill-Lynch, Director, The Bronx New Century's High Schools
Otis Ware, student, Benjamin Banneker Senior High School, Washington, DC
Dr. Alwyn Cohall, Assoc. Professor, Clinical Public Health and Pediatrics, Columbia University
Mike Cohen, Senior Fellow, The Aspen Program on Education
DATE: October 10, 2002
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-667-0901
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: CATO INSTITUTE holds a book forum on Free Trade Today...and Tomorrow.
WHO: The speakers are:
Author, Jagdish Bhagwati, Columbia University
Robert Litan, Brookings Institution
DATE: October 10, 2002
LOCATION: Cato Institute, 1000 Massachusetts Avenue NW, 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 will screen, "The Dark Side of the World," a documentary about Russia's war in Chechnya produced by Czech TV.
DATE: October 10, 2002
LOCATION: 1619 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-663-5626
WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE Foreign Policy Briefing Series presents Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia Christina Rocca.
DATE: October 10, 2002
LOCATION: 1150 17th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-862-5933
WEB ADDRESS:aei.org
TIME: 3:30 p.m.
EVENT: INDEPENDENT WOMEN'S FORUM (IWF) AND THE FEDERALIST SOCIETY convene a panel to discuss whether the current Supreme Court's federalist jurisprudence is beneficial, harmful or inconsequential to women.
WHO: The speakers are:
Jennifer C. Braceras, Esq., IWF Senior Fellow for Legal Policy
Professor Marci Hamilton, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
Professor Gail Heriot, University of San Diego School of Law
Professor Vicki Jackson, Georgetown University Law Center
Isabelle Katz Pinzler, Esq., NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund
DATE: October 10, 2002
LOCATION: Georgetown University Law Center, 600 New Jersey Ave., NW, Room 201
CONTACT: Margaret Carroll, 703-558-4991, or Donna Sneyd, 301-990-2281.
WEB ADDRESS: iwf.org
TIME: 5 p.m.
EVENT: AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE presents a book forum for Letters to a Young Conservative featuring Dinesh D'Souza discussing the differences between modern-day liberalism and conservatism through topics that include multiculturalism, affirmative action, and feminism.
DATE: October 10, 2002
LOCATION: 1150 17th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-862-5933
WEB ADDRESS:aei.org
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: KENNEDY CENTER MILLENIUM STAGE presents The Gilmore, Allen, Peterson Trio who toured Central Asia as 2001 Jazz Ambassadors, performing Louis Armstrong-style improvisational jazz.
DATE: October 10, 2002
LOCATION: 2700 F Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-416-8000
WEB ADDRESS: kennedy-center.org
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY AND THE SMITHSONIAN ASSOCIATES host journalist Richard C. Hottelet for discussion of the murrow boys and the golden age of CBS radio news
AGENDA: Richard C. Hottelet was 26 when he joined CBS News in 1944. He remained with the network for 41 years. He also worked for United Press and was the only American journalist arrested by the Nazis and held until his release in a prisoner exchange. Hottelet will discuss his years as one of the revered "Murrow Boys" during an evening of conversation and recordings of historic radio broadcasts.
DATE: October 10, 2002
LOCATION: 805 21st Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-994-6467
WEB ADDRESS:gwu.edu
TIME: 6:20 p.m.
EVENT: COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS holds a program with Gen. USMC Commander, U.S. Central Command Anthony C. Zinni discussing "Strategic Priorities in the Middle East" From the Arab -- Israeli Conflict To Iraq."
DATE: October 10, 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 author Rick Atkinson discussing and signing copies of An Army At Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943. The book is the first book in a trilogy about the Allied effort in World War II.
DATE: October 10, 2002
LOCATION: 5015 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-364-1919
WEB ADDRESS: politics-prose.com
TIME: 7 pm.
EVENT: GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY presents a lecture entitled 'Moralists, Pragmatists, and Rogues: Bureaucrats in Modern Mysteries' featuring Professor William Gormley from the Georgetown Public Policy Institute.
DATE: October 10, 2002
LOCATION: 37TH and O Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-687-7467
WEB ADDRESS:Georgetown.edu
