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EVENTS ON THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2003
TIME: All Day
EVENT: Lexington Institute will be hosting a one-day conference titled "Progress Towards Homeland Security: An Interim Report Card."
WHO: The speakers include:
Joel Feldschuh, former CEO of El Al Airlines, on Air Transportation Security.
David Kay, former Chief Nuclear Weapons Inspector for the United Nations on Nuclear Defense.
Ellen Laipson, former Vice Chairwoman of the National Intelligence Council, will discuss the state of Foreign Intelligence.
Loren Thompson, Chief Operating Officer of Lexington Institute, will discuss Public Education and the Media.
DATE: February 27, 2003
LOCATION: Ritz-Carlton, Pentagon City, 1250 South Hayes Street, Arlington, Virginia
CONTACT: 703-522-5828
WEB ADDRESS:lexingtoninstitute.org
TIME: All Day
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a conference on Borderlines: Canada in North America two-day conference aims to foster frank and informative dialogue about the state of the Canada-U.S. relationship.
AGENDA: Highlights:
9 a.m. - Canada and Borders, Canada and U.S. Security
Chair: Tim Woodcock, William S. Cohen Center for International Policy and Commerce, University of Maine
1. Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine)
2. Peter Boehm, Canadian Embassy
3. Chris Hornbarger, Homeland Security Council, The White House
4. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-New York) (invited)
10:30 a.m. - How Does Congress View Canada?
Chair: Les Munson, former senior staff member, Senate Foreign Relations Committee
1. Bob Van Wicklin, Legislative Director and Press Secretary to Rep. Amo Houghton (R-NY)
2. Paul Frazer, Murphy Frazer & Selfridge
12:15 p.m. - Woodrow Wilson Center, 5th floor conference room
Chair: Alan Broadbent, Chairman, Avana Capital
Luncheon address by Allan Gotlieb, former Canadian Ambassador to the United States:
"A Better Way to Conduct Canadian-U.S. Relations"
2 p.m. - Introduction and Overview
Chair: Janice Gross Stein, University of Toronto
1. Lee H. Hamilton, Director, Woodrow Wilson Center
2. David Massell, University of Vermont
3:15 p.m - How Is Canada Viewed in Washington?
Chair: Peter Stephens, The Washington Center
1. John Ibbitson, Globe and Mail
2. Jim Derham, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, Department of State or Nancy Mason, Director, Office of Canadian Affairs
3. Maryscott Greenwood, McKenna Long & Aldridge
4:45 p.m. - Canadian success in the US
Chair: David Biette, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
1. Adele Hurley, University of Toronto
2. Jim LeBlanc, S&H/LeBlanc International
6:15 p.m. - Reception
7:30 p.m. - TVOntario Town Hall live broadcast at MHz (Ronald Reagan Building: Use 14th Street or Metro entrance)
DATE: February 27, 2003
LOCATION: US Capitol, Room H-137, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
TIME: All Day
EVENT: Consumer Federation of America holds a program to discuss, debate, and present critical consumer and public policy issues in the new political and economic environment.
WHO: The speakers are:
9 a.m. - Harold E. Ford, Jr (D-TN), U.S. House of Reps.
1 p.m. - Eliot Spitzer, NY Attorney General
3:30 p.m. - Nancy Pelosi, (D-CA), House Minority Leader
5 p.m. - Orrin Hatch, (R-UT) U.S. Senate
DATE: February 27, 2003
LOCATION:Holiday Inn on the Hill, 415 New Jersey Avenue, NW, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202-737-0766
WEB ADDRESS: consumerfed.org
TIME: All Day
EVENT: Michigan State Universityholds its fourth Quello Communication Policy & Law Symposium
AGENDA: Highlights:
8:30 a.m.- Welcome and INTRODUCTION
8:40 a.m.- TELECOM FINANCIAL REALITIES
Chair: George Reed-Dellinger, Senior Vice President, Washington Analysis
Scott C. Cleland, Founder & CEO, Precursor Group
Roger A. Morin, Professor of Finance, Georgia State University
Thomas W. Aust, Vice President and Senior Analyst, Citigroup Investments
Joan H. Smith, Commissioner, Oregon Public Utilities Commission
10:30 p.m.- CURRENT REGULATORY REALITIES: OVERCOMING THE REGULATORYQUANDARY
Chair: Richard E. Wiley, Partner, Wiley Rein & Fielding
Simon J. Wilkie, Chief Economist, Federal Communications Commission
David A. Svanda, President, National Association of Regulatory UtilityCommissioners
Thomas J. Tauke, Senior Vice President, Public Policy and External Affairs, Verizon Communications
Thomas E. Wheeler, President, Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association
Elizabeth A. Noël, People's Counsel, Office of the People's Counsel for the District of Columbia
12 noon - Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), Chairperson of the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet
1:40 p.m. - WAYS FORWARD: RECONCILING INDUSTRY RESTRUCTURING AND COMPETITION
Chair: W. Russell Neuman, Office of Science and Technology Policy, Executive Office of the President
Howard A. Shelanski, Professor of Law, Boalt School of Law, University of California, Berkeley
Bruce M. Owen, former President, Economists Inc., and Professor of Law, Economics and Public Policy at Stanford University
Randolph J. May, Senior Fellow and Director of Communications Policy Studies, The Progress & Freedom Foundation
3:30 p.m. - NEW MODELS OF REGULATION AND INTER-AGENCY GOVERNANCE
Chair: Christopher S. Yoo, Associate Professor, Vanderbilt University Law School
Jim Rossi, Professor, University of North Carolina School of Law
Philip J. Weiser, Associate Professor, University of Colorado School of Law
J. Gregory Sidak, Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute
5 p.m. - CONCLUDING REMARKS
DATE: February 27, 2003
LOCATION: Willard Inter-Continental Hotel in Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 517-432-0923
WEB ADDRESS:law.msu.edu/quello
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER holds a news confernce on the report Dynamics in Race, Culture and Key Indicators of Health in the Nation's 100 Largest Cities and their Subrubs."
DATE: February 27, 2003
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 301-652-1558
WEB ADDRESS: downstate.edu
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: National Parks Conservation Association holds a news confernce to release a new report on the Frederick Douglass National Historic Site and to call on Congress to provide adequate funding to
protect America's diverse National Park System.
WHO: The speakers are:
Rep. Jesse L. Jackson, Jr. (D-2-IL)
Rep. Hilda Solis (D-31-CA)
National Parks Conservation Association President Thomas Kiernan
DATE: February 27, 2003
LOCATION: 2456 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-454-3332
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: REP. JOSEPH CROWLEY holds a news conference to discuss the Perserving "Access to Safe Affordable Canadian Medicines Act of 2003."
DATE: February 27, 2003
LOCATION: HC-9, U.S. Capitol, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-225-3965
WEB ADDRESS: house.gov
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES presents Mark Malloch Brown, administrator for the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), and Kathleen Cravero, deputy director of UNAIDS, will discuss next steps for the UNDP and UNAIDS in the fight the global spread of HIV/AIDS.
DATE: February 27, 2003
LOCATION: 1800 K Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Mark Schoeff, 202-775-3242
WEB ADDRESS:csis.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: NATIONAL ECONOMIST CLUB presents a program featuring Susan Bies, Governor, Federal Reserve System.
DATE: February 27, 2003
LOCATION: Chinatown Garden, 618 H St., NW, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 703-739-9404
WEB ADDRESS: national-economists.org
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: WOMAN'S NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC CLUB presents Robert Barnett who is one of the premier booking agents
DATE: February 27, 2003
LOCATION: 1526 New Hampshire Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-232-7363
WEB ADDRESS: democraticwomen.org
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a lecture entitled "Advocating for the Protection and Assistance Needs of the World's Internally Displaced" with Francis Deng, the U.N. under-secretary-general on Internally Displaced Persons and director of the SAIS Center for Displacement Studies
DATE: February 27, 2003
LOCATION: 1619 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-663-5626
WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org
TIME: 3 p.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR WOMEN PRESIDENT KIM GANDY, FEMINIST MAJORITY FOUNDATION PRESIDENT ELEANOR SMEAL hold a news conference to discuss ruling in NOW v. Scheidler.
DATE: February 27, 2003
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202.628.8669, ext. 116
WEB ADDRESS:now.org
TIME: 3 p.m.
EVENT: MIGRATION POLICY INSTITUTE AND WESTERN POLICY CENTER Co-Host briefing on Refugee Crisis in Iraq/Turkey.
WHO: The speakers are:
Asla Aydintasbas, Turkish journalist and Adjunct Fellow at the Western Policy Center, currently traveling in northern Iraq
Peter Galbraith, Professor at the National Defense University and former US Ambassador to Croatia, member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 1991
Col. Stephen Norton (US Army, ret.), Western Policy Center Senior Policy Advisor, former military attaché in US embassies in Turkey, Greece and Cyprus
DATE: February 27, 2003
LOCATION: Migration Policy Institute, 1400 16th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Jennifer Cohen, 202-266-1927
WEB ADDRESS: migrationpolicy.org
TIME: 3 p.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB holds its "Afternoon Newsmaker" news program featuring Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai discussing the current situation in Afghanistan.
DATE: February 27, 2003
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-662-7500
WEB ADDRESS: npc.press.org
TIME: 4 p.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY holds the 44th annual gala event for 2003 CINE Golden Eagle awards.
WHO: The speakers are:
Ken Burns, filmmaker
Sheila Nevins, vice president, HBO
Tom and Dick Smothers
DATE: February 27, 2003
LOCATION: National Geographic Society, 17th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-775-7803
WEB ADDRESS:nationalgeographic.com
TIME: 4:30 p.m.
EVENT: CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a program to discuss the fight to curb drug production and trafficking in Colombia
WHO: The speakers are:
Paul Simons, Acting Assistant U.S. Secretary of State, Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement
Luis Alberto Moreno, Ambassador to the United States, Republic of Colombia
Charles Schneider, Senior Vice President, International Crisis Group
DATE: February 27, 2003
LOCATION: 1800 K Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Mark Schoeff, 202-775-3242
WEB ADDRESS:csis.org
TIME: 5 p.m.
EVENT: EMBASSY OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION holds a news conference featuring Chairman Of the Committee on International Affairs of The Russian Federation Council Mikhail V. Margelov.
DATE: February 27, 2003
LOCATION: 2650 Wisconsin Avenue NW, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202-298-5748
WEB ADDRESS:russianembassy.org
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: KENNEDY CENTER MILLENIUM STAGE features NSO Youth Fellowship Program Concert featuring local high school students on scholarship studying with NSO members.
DATE: February 27, 2003
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 Wally Lamb discussing and signing copies of Couldn't Keep It To Myself: Testimonies from Our Imprisoned Sisters. A chilling description of the prison system is found in the women's writings, such as Robin Cullen's description of prisoners paying for Christmas "Health Packages": $26 for popcorn, reduced-fat Oreos, breadsticks, and a small box of herbal teas.
DATE: February 27, 2003
LOCATION: 5015 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC CONTACT: 202-364-1919
WEB ADDRESS: politics-prose.com
TIME: 7:30 p.m.
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a town hall on Family Feud? America and Its Allies at a Crossroads. Under the leadership of George W. Bush, the United States seems prepared to engage in a much more activist, "muscular" approach to foreign policy around the world
WHO: The speakers are:
David Frum, author of "The Right Man: The Surprise Presidency of George W.
Bush"
Jack Layton, leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada
Maryscott "Scotty" Greenwood, Executive Director of the Canadian-American
Business Council and former Chief of Staff at the United States Embassy in Canada
John O'Sullivan, Editor-in-Chief of United Press International
John Duffy, Liberal Party of Canada strategist and principal at Strategycorp
DATE: February 27, 2003
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
