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WEEK AHEAD EVENTS FOR TUESDAY JANUARY 21, 2003
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE holds a book forum and luncheon on The Rule of Lawyers: How the New Litigation Elite Threatens America's Rule of Law by Walter K. Olson.
AGENDA: Today's class-action lawyers are carving out a new and dangerous role for themselves within our society. Not content with the record-shattering $246 billion dollar tobacco settlement and immense winnings in asbestos suits, they have taken aim against HMOs, gun makers, lead paint manufacturers, and many other companies in search of large settlements. Soon they will be going after targets such as fast food chains, makers of video games, liquor distributors, and gambling operators.
DATE: January 21, 2003
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 The Post-9/11 Security Dynamics in Central Asia with Mehrdad Haghayeghi, Associate Professor, Department of political science, Southwest Missouri State, and former Title VIII-Supported Research Scholar, Kennan Institute.
DATE: January 21, 2003
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.si.edu
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: WOMAN'S NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC CLUB presents Judith Martin, "Miss Manners" to talk about her new book: Star-Spangled Manners,
DATE: January 21, 2003
LOCATION: 1526 New Hampshire Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-232-7363
WEB ADDRESS: democraticwoman.org
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB holds its "Luncheon Newsmaker" news program featuring Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-MA.
DATE: January 21, 2003
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: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB holds its "Afternoon Newsmaker" news program featuring Mayor John DeStefano, Jr. of New Haven, Connecticut, will discuss "State of America's Cities: Homeland Security and Economic Security."
DATE: January 21, 2003
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-662-7500
WEB ADDRESS: npc.press.org
Wednesday January 22, 2003
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE holds a panel discussion on The State of the Nation's Ecosystems: An Assessment. The panel will review and discuss the results of the most ambitious private sector effort ever undertaken to ascertain environmental conditions and trends in U.S. ecosystems: the H. John Heinz III Center's report, State of the Nation's Ecosystems: Measuring the Lands, Waters, and Living Resources of the United States.
WHO: The speakers are:
Thomas Lovejoy, H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics, and the Environment
Robin O'malley, H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics, and the Environment
Paul Portney, Resources for the Future
Norbert Henninger, World Resources Institute
Indur Goklany, AEI
Steven F. Hayward, AEI
DATE: January 22, 2003
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 Combating Organized Crime in the Balkans.
WHO: The speakers are:
David Binder, Correspondent, The New York Times and MSNBC
John F. Markey, Director of Law Enforcement Assistance Programs and Coordinator, SECI, U.S. Department of State
DATE: January 22, 2003
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE holds a luncheon talk on Japan featuring Shizuka Kamei, member of the Japanese Diet. He is the former Chairman of the Policy Research Council of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and the leader of the LDP's second largest faction. At AEI, Mr. Kamei will discuss both foreign and domestic policy issues facing Japan. The title of his speech will be "Japan's choices in 2003.
DATE: January 22, 2003
LOCATION: 1150 17th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-862-5933
WEB ADDRESS: aei.org
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: RESOURCES FOR THE FUTURE holds a program on A Quiet Revolution in Transportation Finance with Martin Wachs, University of California, Berkeley.
AGENDA: For over eighty years the transportation system has been financed by a system of "user fees," typified by tolls, motor vehicle registration fees, and motor fuel taxes. By statute, these have been earmarked for transportation uses. In recent years, revenues from user fees have gradually been declining in the US, providing fewer funds for new transportation systems and the operation of existing ones.
DATE: January 22, 2003
LOCATION: 1616 P Street, NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-328-5000
WEB ADDRESS: rff.org
Thursday January 23, 2003
TIME: 9:30 a.m.
EVENT: BROOKINGS INSTITUTION holds program on "Protecting the American Homeland: A Second Look at How We're Meeting the Challenge."
WHO: The speakers are:
James B. Steinberg, Vice President and Director, Foreign Policy Studies
Peter R. Orszag, The Joseph A. Pechman Senior Fellow, Economic Studies
Ivo H. Daalder, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies, and the Sydney Stein Jr. Chair
Michael E. O'Hanlon, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies, and the Sydney Stein Jr. Chair
DATE: January 23, 2003
LOCATION: Falk Auditorium, 1775 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-797-6105
WEB ADDRESS: brookings.edu
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program on No Shame for the Sun: Lives of Professional Pakistani Women with Shahla Haeri, author and Director of the Women's Studies Program at Boston University. Dr. Haeri's new book will be available for purchase.
DATE: January 23, 2003
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: WOMAN'S NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC CLUB presents Dr. Alan Geyer, Canon Ethicist at the Washington National Cathedral, discussing the life and work of Ralph Bunche, Nobel Peace Prize winner and Under Secretary-General at the United Nations.
DATE: January 23, 2003
LOCATION: 1526 New Hampshire Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-232-7363
WEB ADDRESS: democraticwoman.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: NATIONAL ECONOMIST CLUB holds its luncheon program featuring Larry Harris, Chief Economist, Securities and Exchange Commission, discussing "Current Issues in the Competition Among Stock Markets, ECNs and Dealers."
DATE: January 23, 2003
LOCATION: Chinatown Garden, 618 H Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 703-739-9404
WEB ADDRESS: national-economists.org
TIME: 3 p.m.
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program on Political Islam And Democracy In Indonesia.
WHO: the speakers are:
William Liddle, Professor of Political Science, Ohio State University Zulkieflimansyah, Head, Department of Economic Policy, Justice Party of Indonesia
Ihsan Ali-Fauzi, Writer and Expert on Indonesian Islam
Eric Bjornlund, Moderator and Former Woodrow Wilson Center Fellow
DATE: January 23, 2003
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
Friday January 24, 2003
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: CATO INSTITUTE holds a hill briefing on What Should the United States Do about North and South Korea?
WHO: The speakers are:
Ted Galen Carpenter, Author, Peace and Freedom: Foreign Policy for a Constitutional Republic and Vice President for Foreign Policy and Defense Studies
Doug Bandow, Author, Tripwire: Korea and U.S. Foreign Policy in a Changed World and Senior Fellow, Cato Institute.
DATE: January 24, 2003
LOCATION: B-338 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-789-5229
WEB ADDRESS: cato.org
TIME: 1 p.m.
EVENT: BROOKINGS INSTITUTION holds leadership forum on Crisis on the Korean Peninsula: Implications for U.S. Policy in Northeast Asia featuring William J. Perry, Co-director of the Harvard-Stanford Preventive Defense Project; former Secretary of Defense and Special Advisor on North Korean Relations.
DATE: January 24, 2003
LOCATION: Falk Auditorium, 1775 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-797-6105
WEB ADDRESS: brookings.edu
