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EVENTS ON FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 2003
TIME: All Day
EVENT: NATIONAL HISPANIC MEDICAL ASSOCIATION Seventh Annual Conference themed "Model Hispanic Health Programs: Prevention, Treatment, Training, Research.
AGENDA: Highlights:
1 p.m. - Opening Plenary Session
"NHMA and Leadership for the Future"
Elena Rios, M.D., M.S.P.H., President & CEO, NHMA "2003 Federal Priorities for Hispanic Health"
Tommy G. Thompson, Secretary U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Doug Badger, Senior Advisor to the President The White House
DATE: March 21, 2003
LOCATION: Hyatt Regency - Capitol Hill, 400 New Jersey Ave., NW
Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-628-5895
WEB ADDRESS: nhmamd.org
TIME: All Day
EVENT: FEDERATION OF AMERICAN HOSPITALS holds its annual Public Policy Conference.
AGENDA: Highlights:
8:30 a.m. - CMS Update Breakfast with Thomas A. Scully, Administrator, CMS
DATE: March 21, 2003
LOCATION: Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, 2660 Woodley Road NW, Washington, DC.
CONTACT: 202-624-1527
WEB ADDRESS: americanhospitals.com
TIME: 9:15 a.m.
EVENT: AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE holds The Road to War ... and Beyond: Special Friday Briefing."
WHO: The speakers are:
Richard Perle, AEI
Thomas Donnelly, AEI
Michael A. Ledeen, AEI
Radek Sikorski, AEI's New Atlantic Initiative
DATE: March 21, 2003
LOCATION: 1150 17th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-862-5933
WEB ADDRESS: aei.org
TIME: 8:30 a.m.
EVENT: MIGRATION POLICY INSTITUTE holds a briefing on Department of Justice's Special Registration Program.
AGENDA: The program requires certain nonimmigrant men (those who are in the US with temporary visas) who are 16 years of age or older and nationals or citizens of specified countries, to register at authorized immigration offices by certain government mandated dates. The program has received considerable media attention and sparked national debate over its scope, efficacy, and merits.
WHO: The speakers are:
Kris Kobach, Counsel to the Attorney General, Department of Justice
Kareem Shora, Legal Advisor, Arab-American Anti-discrimination Committee
Muzaffar Chishti, Senior Policy Analyst, MPI
Alex Aleinikoff, Senior Associate, MPI, and Professor of Law, Georgetown Law Center, Georgetown University
DATE: March 21, 2003
LOCATION: 1400 16th Street, NW, Ground floor conference room A, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: Ana Claros, 202-266-1940
WEB ADDRESS: migrationpolicy.org.
TIME: 9 a.m.
EVENT: GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY Institute for Politics, Democracy and the Internet and the Graduate School of Political Management, holds the 10th Politics Online Conference
WHO: The speakers are:
Christopher M. Schroeder, CEO & publisher, Washingtonpost, Newsweek Interactive
Julius Chambers, treasurer, Edwards for President
Max Fose, former treasurer, McCain for President
Gena Wright, E-Advocacy director, American Association of Retired People
Lance Bennett, professor of political science, University of Washington
Eric Loeb, chief Internet architect, Democratic National Committee
Lee Rainie, director, Pew Internet and American Life
Mark Mellman, CEO, The Mellman Group
Zack Exley, moveon.org
Douglas Pinkham, president, Public Affairs Council
DATE: March 21, 2003
LOCATION: 805 21st Street, NW, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202-994-0951
WEB ADDRESS: gwnewscenter.org
TIME: 9:30 a.m.
EVENT: LEXINGTON INSTITUTE holds a discussion on "Strategic Nuclear Forces in U.S. National Security in the 21st Century" featuring Dr. Daniel Goure, Vice President of the Lexington Institute.
DATE: March 21, 2003
LOCATION: SC-4 U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 703-522-5828
WEB ADDRESS: lexingtoninstitute.org
TIME: 9:30 a.m.
EVENT: SONS OF ITALY holds a conference entitled From The Boat To The Book: Trends, issues and stereotypes in Italian American literature.
WHO: The speakers are:
Dana Gioia, chair, the National Endowment for the Arts
Award-winning poet Dana Gioia is also a translator, essayist, opera librettist and literary critic.
Adriana Trigiani, author, "Big Stone Gap" series
Author of three critically acclaimed novels about an Italian American woman and her life in a Virginia mining town.
Lorenzo Carcaterra, author, "Street Boys"
Author of "Sleepers" and other best sellers, now tells the dramatic WW II story of the four days of Naples in which the Neapolitans, including children of the streets, drove the Nazis out of their city.
Bill Tonelli, editor, "The Italian American Reader"
New anthology of modern Italian American writers
Paul Paolicelli, author, "Under the Southern Sun"
How the Old World values have shaped today's Italian Americans
Chuck Conconi, Editor-at-Large, Washingtonian Magazine
DATE: March 21, 2003
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-547-2900
WEB ADDRESS: osia.org
TIME: 9:45 a.m.
EVENT: THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA holds a program on "The Symbolism and Politics of the Sacred,"
DATE: March 21, 2003
LOCATION: Caldwell Hall Auditorium, 620 Michigan Avenue N.E. Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-319-5600
WEB ADDRESS: cua.edu
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: NEW TECHNOLOGY WEEK AND CO-SPONSOR SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITIES RESEARCH ASSOCIATION hold a breakfast briefing with Dr. Rita Colwell, Director of the National Science Foundation discussing the Congressional approval of the agency's newly increased budget. Ninety-five per cent of NSF's funding goes directly to research and education programs. The agency funds almost 50 per cent of all non-medical basic R&D at US colleges and universities.
DATE: March 21, 2003
LOCATION: King Publishing Group, 1325 G Street NW, Suite 1003 (10th floor), Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202-662-1555.
WEB ADDRESS: kingpublishing.com
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: DEFENSE FORUM FOUNDATION holds a luncheon program featuring Richard Perle is the chairman of the Defense Policy Board, an advisory panel to the Pentagon
DATE: March 21, 2003
LOCATION: B-339 Rayburn Office Building, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 703-534-4313
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: NATIONAL NEIGHBORHOOD COALITION holds a program on Can Neighborhoods Survive Economic Stimulus?
WHO: The speakers are:
Joel Friedman, Center for Budget and Policy Priorities
Buzz Roberts, Local Initiatives Support Corporation
John Murphy, National Association Of Local Housing Finance Agencies
DATE: March 21, 2003
LOCATION: National Trust for Historic Preservation, 1785 Mass Ave., NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-408-8553
WEB ADDRESS: nnc.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: HERITAGE FOUNDATION presents a commemoration of The 20th Anniversary of President Reagan's Address to the Nation Announcing The Strategic Defense Initiative.
WHO: The speakers are:
Robert G. Joseph, Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Proliferation Strategy, Counter proliferation and Homeland Defense
Ambassador Henry F. Cooper Chairman, High Frontier
Becky Norton Dunlop, Vice President of External Relations, The Heritage Foundation
William O'Keefe President, George C. Marshall Institute
DATE: March 21, 2003
LOCATION: 214 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-675-1752
WEB ADDRESS: heritage.org
TIME: 12:15 p.m.
EVENT: ALLIANCE FOR HEALTH REFORM holds a luncheon briefing on "The Dynamics of the Uninsured: Finding Ways to Cover an Ever-Changing Population."
WHO: The speakers are:
Pamela Farley Short of Pennsylvania State University
John Holahan, Urban Institute
John Czajka, Mathematica Policy Research.
Catherine Hoffman, Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured
Ed Howard, the Alliance will moderate the discussion.
DATE: March 21, 2003
LOCATION: 1330 G Street NW, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202-789-2300
WEB ADDRESS: allhealth.org
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: KENNEDY CENTER MILLENIUM STAGE hosts the Official Opening Ceremony of The National Cherry Blossom Festival including appearances by Tokyo's traditional Eiko Nikaido Komono Dressing School, Shizumi's Kodomo Dance Troupe, music by American composers and a grand finale showcasing exciting spectacles from Japan's Dai Dengaku.
DATE: March 21, 2003
LOCATION: 2700 F Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-416-8000
WEB ADDRESS: kennedy-center.org
TIME: 6:30 p.m.
EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a lecture entitled Gayle Gibson, instructor of history, mythology and anthropology at Toronto's Royal Ontario Museum.
DATE: March 21, 2003
LOCATION: 1619 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-663-5626
WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.or
TIME: 7 p.m.
EVENT: POLITICS & PROSE BOOKSTORE presents Jamin Raskin Law Professor sees a pattern in the present Supreme Court's pattern of intervention against public participation and democratic values in Overruling Democracy: The Supreme Court vs. The American People.
DATE: March 21, 2003
LOCATION: 5015 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-364-1919
WEB ADDRESS: politics-prose.com
TIME: 7 p.m.
EVENT: EMBASSY OF FINLAND holds a Screening of the Academy Award -Nominated Finnish Film The Man Without a Past by Aki Kaurismaki
DATE: March 21, 2003
LOCATION: 3301 Massachusetts Ave NW, Washington D.C.
CONTACT: 202-298-5800
