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Washington Agenda-General

By United Press International

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EVENTS ON MONDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2002

TIME: All Day

EVENT: EMERGING BUSINESS FORUM holds a program holds its 2002 program to help emerging enterprises develop the professional infrastructure and network to grow and succeed and create long-term partnerships with established businesses.

AGENDA: Highlights:

3:45 p.m. - Baltimore Mayor Martin O'Malley

7 p.m. - Mark Levine, managing director, Core Capital

DATE: October 21, 2002

LOCATION: Fairview Park Marriott, 3111 Fairview Park Drive, Falls Church, Virginia

CONTACT: Alan Fogg, 703-790-0600

WEB ADDRESS: EmergingBusinessForum.org

TIME: All Day

EVENT: ASSOCIATION OF THE U.S. ARMY holds its annual meeting "Realizing the Army Vision."

AGENDA: Highlights:

7 a.m. -- National Guard/Army Reserve Leadership Breakfast

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Sergeant Major of the Army Conference, Omni Shoreham, 2500 Calvert Street NW, Washington, DC

SMA Jack L. Tilley, Sergeant Major of the Army

9:30 a.m. - Opening Ceremony and Session, Marriott- Wardman Park, 2660 Woodley Park NW, Washington, DC

Thomas E. White, Secretary of the Army Presentation of National Awards

DATE: October 21, 2002

CONTACT: 703-841-4300

WEB ADDRESS: ausa.org

TIME: 9 a.m.

EVENT: GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY, CATHOLIC LEGAL IMMIGRATION NETWORK INC., AND MIGRATION AND REFUGEE SERVICES OF THE US CONFERENCE OF CATHOLIC BISHOPS hold a discussion National Security Policies.

WHO: The speakers are:

INS Commissioner James Ziglar

Arab American Institute President James Zogby

DATE: October 21, 2002

LOCATION: Georgetown University Law Center, McDonough Hall, Philip A. Hart Moot Court Auditorium, 600 New Jersey Avenue, NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-635-2556

WEB ADDRESS:Georgetown.edu

TIME: 9 a.m.

EVENT: CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL PRIVATE ENTERPRISE holds a breakfast meeting to discuss applying company anti-corruption strategies in a competitive environment featuring Alexandra Wrage, president, Transparent Agents and Contracting Entities.

DATE: October 21, 2002

LOCATION: Center for International Private Enterprise 1155 15th Street NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202- 721-9200

WEB ADDRESS: cipe.org

TIME: 9:30 a.m.

EVENT: COMPUTER AND COMMUNICATIONS INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION AND AMERICAN UNIVERSITY WASHINGTON COLLEGE OF LAW PROGRAM ON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY hold a conference on whether artists should be paid royalties when their work is published on the Internet entitled "Paying Artists, Protecting Innovation: New Alternatives for Resolving the Digital Copyright Debate."

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AGENDA: Highlights:

9:30 a.m. - Introductory Remarks

Ed Black, president, Computer and Communication Industry Association

10:00 - 11:00 Stating the Problem

Technology Realities and Siren Song of DRM, Professor Edward Felten, Princeton

Proposed Policy Solutions, Professor Peter Jaszi, American University

The Broadband Penetration Challenge, Sarah Deutsch, Verizon Communications

Transaction Costs of Conventional Licensing, Rob Reid, Listen.com

Artists' Perspectives, Jenny Toomey, Future of Music Coalition and Ann Chaitowitz AFTRA

11:15 a.m. - Historical Backround

Overview and International Perspective, Peter Jaszi, American University

Cable/Satellite TV Licensing, Peter Huber, Kellogg, Huber, Hansen, Todd & Evans

Pros and Cons of the Webcasting Experience, Jon Potter, DiMA

Performance Rights, Michael Remington, Esq. , Drinker, Biddle & Reath

Audio Home Recording Act (DART), Seth Greenstein, Esq., McDermott, Will & Emery

1 p.m. - New Approaches

An Economist's Overview, Steve Salop, Charles River Associates

Music Industry Innovations, Jim Griffin, Cherry Lane Digital

Intellectual Property Use Fee, Phil Corwin, Esq., Butera & Andrews

Other Licensing Alternatives, Will Rodger, CCIA

Comments, Elliott Van Buskirk, CNET (invited)

Comments, Kenneth Hertz, Esq., Goldring Hertz Lichtenstein and Haft

Comments, Bruce Abramson, Charles River Associates

2:15 p.m. - Keynote Address: Prof. Neil Netanel, Univ. of Texas

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Imposing Non-Commercial Use Levy to Allow Free P2P File-Swapping and Mixing

3 p.m. - Administration Issues Roundtable

Ron Gertz, Music Reports

Peter Harter, Emusic.com

John Simson, Sound Exchange

Marc Rotenberg and Chris Hoofnagle, Electronic Privacy Information Center

DATE: October 21, 2002

LOCATION: 4400 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-885-5950

WEB ADDRESS:au.edu

TIME: 9:30 a.m.

EVENT: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY COUNCIL holds a news conference to unveil its "High Tech Voting Guide for the 107th Congress."

AGENDA: The Voting Guide is used by the information technology industry to measure Members' of Congress support for issues that are important to the industry and policies that ensure the success of the digital economy.

DATE: October 21, 2002

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

CONTACT: 202-626-5725

WEB ADDRESS: itic.org

TIME: 10 a.m.

EVENT: POPULATION RESOURCE CENTER holds Henry L. McIntyre Lecture program on "Securing the Future: Directions for Adolescent Health in Africa."

WHO: The speakers are:

Jane S. DeLung, President, Population Resource Center

Global Demographic Trends in the 21st Century

Jeff Jordan, The Futures Group

Perspectives on Africa in the 21st Century

Julius E. Coles, President, Africare

Successes and Challenges: Africa, Adolescence and AIDS

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Sophie Mukasa Monico, Global AIDS Policy Officer, Global Health Council

Rev. Benjamin Kakonge, Child Survival Program, TASO, Uganda

DATE: October 21, 2002

LOCATION: 2168 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-467-5030

WEB ADDRESS: prc.org

TIME: 10 a.m.

EVENT: COLLEGE BOARD holds a news conference releasing its annual report on college tuition prices and financial aid.

DATE: October 21, 2002

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

CONTACT: 202-667-0901

WEB ADDRESS: collegeboard.org

TIME: 10:30 a.m.

EVENT: CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES presents Afghan foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah discussing the security and stability of Afghanistan.

DATE: October 21, 2002

LOCATION: Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 562, Washington, DC

CONTACT: Mark Schoeff, 202-775-3242

WEB ADDRESS:csis.org

TIME: 11 a.m.

EVENT: AMERICAN CORPORATE COUNSEL ASSOCIATION AND GLOBAL CORPORATE COUNSEL ASSOCIATION

hold a program to release a first-of-its-kind survey of in-house and general counsel regarding the various issues of corporate responsibility raised by the Enron, WorldCom, and other financial and accounting scandals.

WHO: The speakers are:

Frederick J. Krebs, President, ACCA/GCCA

William B. Lytton, Executive Vice President and General Counsel, Tyco International, and chair,

ACCA/GCCA

Elizabeth Wall, General Counsel, European Lawyer, and chair elect, ACCA/GCCA

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John McGuckin, Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary, Union Bank of California,

N.A., and vice chair elect, ACCA/GCCA

DATE: October 21, 2002

LOCATION: Grand Hyatt, 1000 H Street NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: Naomi Paiss, 202-667-0901

WEB ADDRESS: acca.com

TIME: 12 noon

EVENT: CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a program to outline the initial results of a recent simulation exercise of the pre-attack phase of a credible threat to the U.S. energy infrastructure.

WHO: The speakers are:

John Hamre, CSIS President and CEO

Phil Anderson, CSIS Senior Fellow and Director, Homeland Security Initiatives

Randy Larsen, Director, ANSER Institute for Homeland Security

DATE: October 21, 2002

LOCATION: 1800 K Street NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: Mark Schoeff, 202-775-3242

WEB ADDRESS:csis.org

TIME: 12 noon

EVENT: CATO INSTITUTE holds a book forum on Robert Nozick featuring author, David Schmidtz, University of Arizona; with comments by William Galston, University of Maryland; and Tom G. Palmer, Cato Institute.

DATE: October 21, 2002

LOCATION: Cato Institute, 1000 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-789-5229

WEB ADDRESS:cato.org

TIME: 12 noon

EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program on Russia's Democratic Dilemmas with Harley Balzer, Associate Professor, Department of Government and School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, and former Title VIII-supported Research Scholar, Kennan Institute.

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DATE: October 21, 2002

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

Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-287-3400

WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu

TIME: 12 noon

EVENT: GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service The BMW Center for German and European Studies holds a seminar Brian Bow, Visiting Scholar at the BMW Center for German and European Studies, a Doctoral Candidate at Cornell University discussing "When Push Comes to Shove: Norms, Networks, and Issue-Linkage in US-Canada Bargaining."

DATE: October 21, 2002

LOCATION: Gaston Hall, 3rd Floor, Healy Hall, 37TH and O Streets NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-687-4328

WEB ADDRESS:Georgetown.edu

TIME: 2 p.m.

EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB holds its "Afternoon Newsmaker" news program featuring The Chechnya Rapporteur for the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe Frank Judd (Lord Judd of Portsea) discussing Human Rights and Prospects for Peace in Chechnya.

DATE: October 21, 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: INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH holds a news conference to discuss "How Does the Federal Medical Privacy Rule That Went into Effect October 15, 2002 Affect Citizens' Health Privacy?"

DATE: October 21, 2002

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

CONTACT: 202-429-6610

WEB ADDRESS: forhealthfreedom.org

TIME: 3 p.m.

EVENT: AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE holds a book forum for Darwinian Politics: The Evolutionary Origin of Freedom. The book demonstrates why certain political-moral philosophies succeed or fail in modern Western culture.

WHO: The speakers are:

Christopher Demuth, AEI

Paul Rubin, Emory University

Charles Murray, AEI

William A. Niskanen, Cato Institute

Lionel Tiger, Rutgers University

DATE: October 21, 2002

LOCATION: 1150 17th Street NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-862-5933

WEB ADDRESS:aei.org

TIME: 5 p.m.

EVENT: AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE holds a lecture on "Democracy for the Arab World," featuring Dr. Shafeeq Ghabra, professor of political science and the director of the Center for Strategic and Future Studies at Kuwait University.

DATE: October 21, 2002

LOCATION: 1150 17th Street NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-862-5933

WEB ADDRESS:aei.org

TIME: 5:30 p.m.

EVENT: GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY presents Assistant Secretary of State Otto Reich discussing U.S. policy toward Latin America and the current state of the region.

DATE: October 21, 2002

LOCATION: Murray Room, Lauinger Library, 37TH and O Streets NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-687-4328

WEB ADDRESS:Georgetown.edu

TIME: 6 p.m.

EVENT: KENNEDY CENTER MILLENIUM STAGE presents the Salvadoran folklore group Ballet Folklórico El Pulgarcito.

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DATE: October 21, 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 Joyce Carol Oates discussing and signing copies of I'll Take You There which is an exploration of identity.

DATE: October 21, 2002

LOCATION: 5015 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-364-1919

WEB ADDRESS: politics-prose.com

TIME: 7 p.m.

EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB'S Photography Committee sponsors a panel discussion on "Combat Photography" from World War II to Afghanistan.

DATE: October 21, 2002

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

CONTACT: 202-662-7500

WEB ADDRESS: npc.press.org

TIME: 7:30 p.m.

EVENT: GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY presents Caryle Murphy, winner of the 1991 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting, discussing and signing copies of her new book, Passion for Islam: Shaping the Modern Middle East: The Egyptian Experience.

DATE: October 21, 2002

LOCATION: 37TH and O Streets NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-687-4328

WEB ADDRESS:Georgetown.edu

TIME: 7:30 p.m.

EVENT: AMERICAN UNIVERSITY Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies hosts a forum that discusses the relationship between President and Congress entitled The President, The Congress, Iraq, The Economy, and The 2002 Election.

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WHO: The speakers are:

Bill Kristol, editor, The Weekly Standard

Mark Mellman, president and CEO, The Mellman Group

David Skaggs, former Congressman from Colorado

David Winston, president, The Winston Group

DATE: October 21, 2002

LOCATION: 4400 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-885-5950

WEB ADDRESS:au.edu

TIME: 8 p.m.

EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB AND THE KALB REPORT present Media Coverage of the Sniper Story: Good Reporting and Good Citizenship."

WHO; The speaker are:

David Roberts, WUSA TV Vice President for News

Jim Farley, WTOP Radio Vice President for News and Programming

Dan Raviv, CBS news National Correspondent

DATE: October 21, 2002

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

CONTACT: 202-994-8810

WEB ADDRESS: npc.press.org

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