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EVENTS ON WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2002
TIME: All Day
EVENT: AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE holds a conference on Productivity in the Twenty-first Century.
AGENDA: Highlights:
8:30 a.m. - Registration and continental breakfast
9 a.m. - Christopher DeMuth, AEI
Elaine L. Chao, Department of Labor
9:30 a.m. - Is There a Productivity Miracle?
R. Glenn Hubbard, Council of Economic Advisers
Frank R. Lichtenberg, Columbia University
Steve Oliner, Federal Reserve Board
Kathleen Utgoff, Bureau of Labor Statistics
Kevin Hassett, AEI
11 a.m. - Productivity and Jobs
Martin N. Baily, Institute for International Economics
Jared Bernstein, Economic Policy Institute
Dick Davidson, Union Pacific Corporation
Marilyn Carlson Nelson, Carlson Company, Inc.
Ned Phelps, Columbia University
Ben J. Wattenberg, AEI
12:30 p.m. - Luncheon Address: Alan Greenspan, Federal Reserve Board
2 p.m. - The Future of Productivity
J. T. Battenberg III, Delphi Corporation
Greg Bentley, Bentley Systems, Incorporated
Henrietta Holsman Fore, U.S. Mint
George Halvorson, Kaiser Permanente
James K. Glassman, AEI
3:30 p.m. - Closing Remarks
3:45 p.m. - Adjournment
DATE: October 23, 2002
LOCATION: 1150 17th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-862-5933
WEB ADDRESS:aei.org
TIME: All Day
EVENT: SECOND NATIONAL PEOPLE OF COLOR holds its Environmental Leadership Summit. It will also assess progress and challenges confronted by the environmental justice movement since the first historic Summit more than a decade ago.
AGENDA: Highlight:
11 a.m. News conference
DATE: October 23, 2002
LOCATION: Hyatt Regency Hotel Capitol Hill, 400 New Jersey Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Junette Pinkney or, Erica Clark 202-833-9771
ME: All Day
EVENT: 44TH WASHINGTON INTENATIONAL HORSE SHOW. The show is considered one of the most prestigious and competitive horse shows in the world for good reason. Equestrian teams from Canada, Italy, Switzerland and the United States come together for six days of events.
DATE: October 23, 2002
LOCATION: 601 F Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-628-3200
WEB ADDRESS:wihs.org
TIME: All Day
EVENT: ASSOCIATION OF THE U.S. ARMY holds its annual meeting "Realizing the Army Vision."
AGENDA: Highlight:
6 p.m. - George Catlett Marshall Memorial Dinner, Marriott Wardman Park, 2660 Woodley Road NW, Washington, DC
Nicholas D. Chabraja, Chairman, Council of Trustees, AUSA
George J. Mitchell
DATE: October 23, 2002
CONTACT: 703-841-4300
WEB ADDRESS: ausa.org
TIME: All Day
EVENT: AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE holds a briefing on Transforming Textbooks: AAAS and Partner Target K-12 Science Materials For Improvement.
DATE: October 23, 2002
LOCATION: AAAS, 1200New York Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-326-6666
WEB ADDRESS:project2061.org
TIME: 8 a.m.
EVENT: MCGRAW-HILL holds its 10th annual symposium to discuss a number of issues ranging from our economic outlook to protecting America's energy infrastructure.
WHO: The speakers are:
Federal Perspective
Danica Petroshius, Deputy Staff Director, Majority Staff and Chief Education Counsel, Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee
Bill Lucia, Director of Outreach and Strategy, Office of the Secretary, U.S. Department of Education
Roger Rogalin (Moderator), Sr. Vice President, Government Affairs, McGraw-Hill Education
State and Local Perspective
Dane Linn, Director, Education Policy Studies, National Governor's Association
Dr. Jerry D. Weast (invited), Superintendent of Montgomery County Public Schools
Roger Rogalin (Moderator), Sr. Vice President, Government Affairs, McGraw-Hill Education
Beyond Test Results: Deepening the Data to Improve Student Achievement
Sharon Lewis, Research Director, The Council of the Great City Schools
Mark Moody (invited), Assistant State Superintendent, Maryland State Department of Education
Donna Long, National Mathematics Assessment Consultant, CTB/McGraw-Hill
DATE: October 23, 2002
LOCATION: Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 212-994-7545
TIME: 9:45 a.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL CERTIFICATION COMMISSION FOR ACUPUNCTURE AND ORIENTAL MEDICIEN holds a news conference to release a survey regarding the public's opinions of acupuncture.
WHO: The speakers are:
Christina Herlihy, NACCAOM
Debra Persinger, NCCAOM
DATE: October 23, 2002
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 703-548-9004
WEB ADDRESS: naccaom.org
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: RECRUITING NEW TEACHERS holds a news conference to discuss a report on "Rx for solving Nation's Teacher Shortage: Community Colleges Untapped Resource to Supply Teachers Report To Say.
WHO: Speakers are:
Mildred Hudson, chief executive officer, Recruiting New Teachers
Edward James Olmos, actor and RNT board member;
Jacqueline Jordan Irvine, Candler professor of urban education, Emory Univ.;
Karin Egan, program officer, Carnegie Corporation of New York.
DATE: October 23, 2002
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-955-9450
WEB ADDRESS: rnt.org
TIME: 10:30 a.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL COALITION ON BLACK CIVIC PARTICIPATION AND PEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY FOUNDATION hold a program on "Know Your Rights/Election Protection 2002."
WHO: The speakers are:
Barbara Arnwine, executive director, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
George E. Curry, editor-in-chief, NNPA News Service and BlackPressUSA.com
Elaine R. Jones, president and director-counsel, NAACP Legal Defense Fund
Ralph G. Neas, president, People for the American Way Foundation
Weldon J. Rougeau, president, Congressional Black Caucus Foundation
Richard Womack, chairman, National Coalition on Black Civic Participation
DATE: October 23, 2002
LOCATION: J.W. Marriott Hotel, 1331 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-659-4929
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: HERITAGE FOUNDATION holds a program entitled "Pirates and Posses: The Battle Over Digital Copyright."
WHO: The speakers are:
Bruce Mehlman, U.S. Department of Commerce
Gary Shapiro, Consumer Electronics Association
Alec French, House Judiciary Committee
James V. Delong, Competitive Enterprise Institute
DATE: October 23, 2002
LOCATION: 214 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-675-1752
WEB ADDRESS: heritage.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program on Prelude to Revolution: Deconstructing Society in Hungary, 1949-1953 with Bianca Adair, former Fulbright scholar to Austria and Hungary and Title-VIII EES grant recipient.
DATE: October 23, 2002
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
TIME: 12:15 p.m.
EVENT: NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION holds a lunch on Globalization and the Environment entitled "The Role Of Regulation: Mitigating Adverse Impacts of International Capital Flows on the Environment," with Tim Gulden, Center on Social and Economic Dynamics, Brookings Institution.
DATE: October 23, 2002
LOCATION: 1630 Connecticut Ave., NW, 7th Floor, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Jud Mathews, 202-986-4901
WEB ADDRESS: newamerica.net
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a lecture entitled "Everything you think you know about the American way of War is Wrong" with Max Boot, Wall Street Journal and fellow to the Council on Foreign Relations.
DATE: October 23, 2002
LOCATION: 1740 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-663-5626
WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org
TIME: 5 p.m.
EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES Central Asia-Caucasus Institute holds the W.P. Carey Forum entitled "The Two Faces Of Islam."
DATE: October 23, 2002
LOCATION: 1619 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-663-5626
WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org
TIME: 5:30 p.m.
EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a forum, to discuss "Supreme Command: Soldiers, Statesmen and Leadership in Wartime. " a
WHO: The speakers are:
Karl Jackson, director of the SAIS Asian Studies Program
Michael Mandelbaum, director of the SAIS American Foreign Policy Program
Ronald Spector, professor of history and international affairs at
George Washington University's Elliot School of International Affairs
DATE: October 23, 2002
LOCATION: 1740 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-663-5626
WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS holds a program entitled "The Threatening Storm: The Case for Invading Iraq."
WHO: The speakers are:
Kenneth M. Pollack, Former NSC Persian Gulf Director and CIA analyst;
Author, The Threatening Storm
Robin Wright, Chief Diplomatic Correspondent, Los Angeles Times
DATE: October 23, 2002
LOCATION: 1779 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Marieke Beeuwkes, 212-434-9537
WEB ADDRESS: cfr.org
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: KENNEDY CENTER MILLENIUM STAGE presents José Antonio Galeano's Con la tierra en los labios featuring songs, poems and texts from his native Paraguay.
DATE: October 23, 2002
LOCATION: 2700 F Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-416-8000
WEB ADDRESS: kennedy-center.org
TIME: 6:30 p.m.
EVENT: PBN COMPANY AND CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATIONS hold a seminar to explore how well American institutions (government, business, non-profits, etc.) communicate with Russian publics more than a decade after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
WHO: The speakers are:
Damjan de Krnjevic-Miskovic - Columnist, Isvestia; Assistant Managing Editor, The National Interest
Paul Nathanson - Senior Vice President and Managing Director, The PBN Company (an international strategic communications and PR firm with offices in Moscow for 12 years)
Deborah Louison - Senior Vice President and Director, Global Services APCO Worldwide (an international PR firm with operations in Russia)
Clive Lindley - Publisher, Russia Express and newsnations.com; author, "Lenin's Legacy."
Cliff Kupchan - Russia Analyst for more than 20 years; Just returned from a two-year stint in Russia as the Vice President of the Eurasia Foundation.
DATE: October 23, 2002
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Ruth Sexton, 202-530-1425
WEB ADDRESS: prsa-ncc.org
TIME: 7 p.m.
EVENT: POLITICS & PROSE BOOKSTORE presents Journalist Richard Conniff talks about his highly entertaining new book, The Natural History Of The Rich: A Field Guide. Conniff sees many similarities between the well heeled and the animal world of chimps and baboons.
DATE: October 23, 2002
LOCATION: 5015 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-364-1919
WEB ADDRESS: politics-prose.com
