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WEEK AHEAD EVENTS ON TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2002

Tuesday October 29, 2002

TIME: 12 noon

EVENT: CATO INSTITUTE holds a policy forum Corporate Accounting: Before and After the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.

WHO: The speakers are:

Richard Bassett, Managing Director, Risktoolz

Peter Wallison, Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute

William Niskanen, Chairman, Cato Institute.

DATE: October 29, 2002

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

CONTACT: 202-789-5229

WEB ADDRESS:cato.org

TIME: 4 p.m.

EVENT: AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE holds a book forum on Human Cloning and Human Dignity: The Report of the President's Council on Bioethics.

WHO: The speakers are:

J. Bottum, Weekly Standard

William A. Galston, University of Maryland

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Charles Murray, AEI

Diana Shaub, Loyola College of Maryland

Leon Kass, AEI; and Tony Snow, Fox News

DATE: October 29, 2002

LOCATION: 1150 17th Street NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-862-5933

WEB ADDRESS:aei.org

TIME: 4 p.m.

EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a book launch for Democratic Autonomy: Public Reasoning about the Ends of Policy with Henry S. Richardson, Professor of Philosophy, Georgetown University; former Wilson Center Fellow, and author.

DATE: October 29, 2002

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

Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-287-3400

WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu

TIME: 6:30 p.m.

EVENT: CENTER FOR POLICY ANALYSIS ON PALESTINE Cultural Committee of The Jerusalem Fund for Education and Community Development holds a reception and discussion of "The Intifada's Youngest Victims."

WHO: The speakers are:

Dutch photojournalist Nadja Groux

Daniel Quinn, recently returned from the West Bank where he volunteered for the Palestine Children's Relief Fund.

DATE: October 29, 2002

LOCATION: 2425 Virginia Avenue NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-338-1290

WEB ADDRESS: palestinecenter.org

Wednesday October 30, 2002

TIME: 9 a.m.

EVENT: AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE NEW ATLANTIC INITIATIVE holds a forum on Europe: Anti-Semitism Resurgent?

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WHO: The speakers are:

John O'Sullivan, United Press International

Ruth Wisse, Harvard University

Radek Sikorski, AEI and NAI

DATE: October 30, 2002

LOCATION: 1150 17th Street NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-862-5933

WEB ADDRESS:aei.org

TIME: 12 noon

EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program on Criminalized Conflicts: The Clandestine Political Economy of War and Peace in the Balkans with Peter R. Andreas, Professor, Department of political science, Brown University, RI.

DATE: October 30, 2002

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

Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-287-3400

WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu

TIME: 12 noon

EVENT: AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE holds a conference on Does Excessive Regulation Threaten Subprime Lending?

WHO: The speakers are:

Ned Gramlich, Federal Reserve Board

Roy E. Green, American Association of Retired Persons

Gary Gilmer, Household International

Michael Staten, Credit Research Center

Peter J. Wallison, AEI

Charles W. Calomiris, AEI

DATE: October 30, 2002

LOCATION: 1150 17th Street NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-862-5933

WEB ADDRESS:aei.org

TIME: 5:30 p.m.

EVENT: AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE presents 2002 Henry Wendt Lecture on In Defense of Empires featuring Deepak K. Lal, University of California, Los Angeles.

DATE: October 30, 2002

LOCATION: 1150 17th Street NW, Washington, DC

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CONTACT: 202-862-5933

WEB ADDRESS:aei.org

Thursday October 31, 2002

TIME: 9:30 a.m.

EVENT: CENTER FOR IMMIGRATION STUDIES AND NATIONAL REVIEW hold a panel discussion analyzing the actual visa applications of the hijackers, copies of which will be made available to media.

WHO: The speakers are:

Joel Mowbray, investigative reporter, National Review

Michelle Malkin, nationally syndicated columnist and author of "Invasion:

How America Still Welcomes Terrorists, Criminals and Other Foreign Menaces to Our Shores"

Nikolai Wenzel, former U.S. Foreign Service officer

DATE: October 31, 2002

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

CONTACT: John Keeley, 202-466-8185

WEB ADDRESS: cis.org

TIME: 12 noon

EVENT: HERITAGE FOUNDATION holds a program entitled US Interests in Latin America featuring Otto Reich,

Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs.

DATE: October 31, 2002

LOCATION: 214 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-675-1752

WEB ADDRESS:heritage.org

TIME: 12:30 p.m.

EVENT: WOMAN'S NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC CLUB presents Helene Carlsson, specialist in the Gender and Development Group at the World Bank, and represented the Bank at Beijing +5.

DATE: October 31, 2002

LOCATION: 1526 New Hampshire Avenue NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-232-7363

WEB ADDRESS: democraticwomen.org

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TIME: 2 p.m.

EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a conference on the State of the Canada-United States Relationship.

AGENDA: Highlights:

2 p.m. - Introduction

2:15 p.m. - Environment

Author: Debora VanNijnatten, Professor of Political Science, Wilfrid Laurier University

Discussant: Jean Melious, Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Studies, Huxley

College of the Environment, Western Washington University

3:45 p.m. - Overview: United States-Canada Relations

Author: John Herd Thompson, chair, Department of History, Duke University

Discussant: Jeffrey Simpson, National Affairs Columnist, Globe and Mail

DATE: October 31, 2002

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

Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-287-3400

WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu

TIME: 3:45 p.m.

EVENT: AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE holds an International Economic and Trade Policy Seminar on The IMF and the Lessons from Argentina and Brazil.

WHO: The speakers are:

Allan H. Meltzer, AEI and Carnegie Mellon University

Nancy Birdsall, Center for Global Development

Guillermo A. Calvo, University of Maryland

Daniel Tarullo, Georgetown University Law Center; and J. Michael Finger, AEI

DATE: October 31, 2002

LOCATION: 1150 17th Street NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-862-5933

WEB ADDRESS:aei.org

Friday November 1, 2002

TIME: All Day

EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a conference on the State of the Canada-United States Relationship.

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AGENDA: Highlights:

9 a.m. - Security and Border Issues

Author: Sharon Jones, Instructor, SUNY Cortland

Discussant: Christopher Sands, Fellow and Director of the Canada Project, Americas

Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies

10:30 a.m. - Defense Issues

Author: Dwight N. Mason, former U.S. chairman, Permanent Joint Board on Defense,

Canada-United States

Discussant: Stéphane Roussel, Assistant Professor, Canada Research Chair in Canadian

Foreign and Defense Policy, Department of Political Science, Université du

Québec à Montréal

1 p.m. - Business and Economic Relations

Author: Maureen Molot, Professor of International Affairs and Political Science, Norman

Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University

Discussant: Mark Kasoff, Professor of Economics and Director, Canadian Studies Center,

Bowling Green State University

2:30 p.m. - Cultural Issues

Author: Christopher Maule, Professor, Department of Economics and Distinguished

Research Professor, Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton

University

Discussant: Eliza Patterson, international trade lawyer and adjunct professor, Washington and

Lee University Law School

3:45 p.m. - Concluding Remarks

DATE: November 1, 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: CATO INSTITUTE holds a policy forum entitled Protection against Higher Premiums Based on Changes in Health Status: Is There a Market-Based Solution?

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WHO: The speakers are:

Mark Pauly, University of Pennsylvania

Bradley Herring, Emory University

Keith Crocker, University of Michigan

John Moran, Syracuse University

Rick Curtis, Institute for Health Policy Solutions

Tom Miller, Cato Institute

DATE: November 1, 2002

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

CONTACT: 202-789-5229

WEB ADDRESS: cato.org

TIME: 12:30 p.m.

EVENT: CATO INSTITUTE holds a hill briefing on Too Much Deregulation or Not Enough?

WHO: The speakers are:

Peter VanDoren, Editor, Regulation Magazine

Mark Cooper, Director of Research, Consumer Federation of America.

DATE: November 1, 2002

LOCATION: 121 Cannon House Office Building, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-789-5229

WEB ADDRESS:cato.org

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