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EVENTS ON TUESDAY, MARCH 25, 2003
TIME: All Day
EVENT: NATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS COOPERATIVE ASSOCIATION holds its 2003 Legislative and Policy conference.
Highlight:
8:15 am - Sen. Ted Stevens, R-AL, chairman, Appropriations Committee
DATE: March 25, 2003
LOCATION: Hyatt Regency - Capitol Hill, 400 New Jersey Avenue NW, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: Cheryl Metts, 703-351-2040
WEB ADDRESS: ntca.org
TIME: All Day
EVENT: NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR BUSINESS ECONOMICS holds its 2003 Washington Economic Policy Conference themed "The Revival of Activist Policy: What Will It Mean for the Economy?"
AGENDA: Highlight:
12:30 p.m. - Ellen Hughes-Cromwick, Director, Corporate Economics & Strategic Issues, Ford Motor Company, presiding
John W. Snow, U.S. Treasury Secretary
DATE: March 25, 2003
LOCATION: Watergate Hotel, 2650 Virginia Avenue NW, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202-463-6223
WEB ADDRESS: nabe.com
TIME: All Day
EVENT: AMERICAN ASTRONAUTICAL SOCIETY sponsors the 41st Goddard Memorial Symposium on "NASA's Vision and Mission...Moving Onward and Upward."
AGENDA: Highlights:
9 a.m. - Welcome and Introduction:
Robert E. Lindberg, AAS President, National Institute of Aerospace
Al V. Diaz (Honorary Chair), Director, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
9:15 a.m. - Jerry Creedon, NASA Associate Administrator for Aerospace Technology
"Technology: The Tie That Binds NASA's Mission"
12:15 p.m. - Vance Coffman, Chairman and CEO, Lockheed Martin Corporation
"Space as a National Asset"
DATE: March 25, 2003
LOCATION: Marriott - Greenbelt, 6400 Ivy Lane, Greenbelt, M.D.
CONTACT: 703-866-0020
WEB ADDRESS: astronautical.org
TIME: 7:30 a.m.
EVENT: NORTHER VIRGINIA TECHNOLOGY COUNCIL program on European IT Market Opportunities
WHO: The speakers are:
Phillip W. Anderson, PhD, President & CEO, P.W. Anderson & Partners, Inc.
Frank Carchedi, CFO, CoStar Group Inc.
Dan Jenkin, CEO, ISGROUP
John Hewko, Baker & McKenzie
Valerie Pelton, EAM Capital; and commercial counselors from European embassies
DATE: March 25, 2003
LOCATION: 1600 Tyson's Blvd, Main Level
McLean, VA
CONTACT: 703-904-7878
WEB ADDRESS: nvtc.org
TIME: 8:30 a.m.
EVENT: AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE "The Road to War ... and Beyond: Black Coffee Briefing on the War in Iraq.
WHO: The speakers are:
Richard Perle, AEI
James Woolsey, former director of CIA
Danielle Pletka, AEI
Thomas Donnelly, AEI
Michael Ledeen, AEI
DATE: March 25, 2003
LOCATION: 1150 17th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-862-5933
WEB ADDRESS: aei.org
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: U.S. INSTITUTE OF PEACE holds a program on "Chechnya's Constitutional and Election Law Referendum."
WHO: The speakers are:
Zaindi Choltaev, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Kennan Institute
Glen Howard, American Committee for Peace in Chechnya
Mike Morrow, U.S. Department of State, Office of Russian Affairs
Yuri Ushakov, Embassy of the Russian Federation
Anne Henderson, U.S. Institute of Peace
DATE: March 25, 2003
LOCATION: 1200 17th Street NW, Suite 200
Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202.457.1700
WEB ADDRESS: usip.org
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: BROOKINGS INSTITUTION holds its Iraq briefing entitled "On to Baghdad: What Will Coalition Forces Face Next?"
WHO: The speakers are:
Philip H. Gordon, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies, and Director, Center on the United States and France, Brookings
Michael E. O'Hanlon, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies, and the Sydney Stein Jr. Chair, Brookings
Kenneth M. Pollack, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies, and Director of Research, Saban Center for Middle East Policy, Brookings
James M. Lindsay (Moderator), Deputy Director and Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies, Brookings
DATE: March 25, 2003
LOCATION: Falk Auditorium, 1775 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-797-6105
WEB ADDRESS: brookings.edu
TIME: 11 a.m.
EVENT: CENTER ON BUDGET AND POLICY PRIORITIES will hold a conference call briefing on the latest developments on the House and Senate budget resolutions, which are already heading into pre-conference negotiations at the staff level. Although the Senate will not take final action to pass its resolution until Wednesday of this week, both chambers are moving at high speed to resolve the differences in the two bills, and a final budget resolution could emerge this week within 24 to 48 hours after the Senate votes Wednesday.
WHO: The speakers are:
Robert Greenstein, Executive Director,
Richard Kogan, Senior Fellow
DATE: March 25, 2003
CONTACT: Michelle Bazie, 202-408-1080.
WEB ADDRESS: cbpp.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY presents a lecture with R. Kent Weaver Professor, Department of Government and Public Policy Institute Georgetown University discussing "Reforming Public Pensions: Lessons from the Advanced Industrial Countries.
DATE: March 25, 2003
LOCATION: icc 450,37TH and O Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-687-8316
WEB ADDRESS: Georgetown.edu
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: WOMAN'S NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC CLUB presents Jamin B. Raskin, Professor of Constitutional Law at American University discussing his new book Overruling Democracy: The Supreme Court v. The American People, he will argue that we are facing judicial activism of nearly unprecedented ferocity.
DATE: March 25, 2003
LOCATION: 1526 New Hampshire Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-232-7363
WEB ADDRESS: democraticwoman.org
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: CHAMBER OF COMMERCE holds a luncheon roundtable in honor of the Official Sri Lankan Business Delegation.
WHO: The delegation members include:
Professor G. L. Peiris, Minister of Enterprise Development, Industrial Policy, and Investment Promotion and Constitutional Affairs and Minister of Commerce and Consumer Affairs, Sandresh
Ravindra Karunanayake
Deputy U.S. Trade Representative Ambassador Jon Huntsman, Jr.
DATE: March 25, 2003
LOCATION: 1615 H Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-463-5682
WEB ADDRESS: uschamber.com
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB holds its "Luncheon Newsmaker" news program featuring Terrance Jones, Director, Wolftrap Foundation discussing "Education and the Arts: A Vital Role... A Critical Link featuring a special celebrity guest, Keter Betts, legendary jazz bassist for Ella Fitzgerald and Wolftrap Institute Founding Artist.
DATE: March 25, 2003
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-662-7500
WEB ADDRESS: npc.press.org
TIME: 2:30 p.m.
EVENT: HOUSE MINORITY WHIP REP. STENY HOYER, D-MD holds a pen and pad briefing.
DATE: March 25, 2003
LOCATION: H-306, U.S. Capitol, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Stacey Farnen, 202-225-3130
WEB ADDRESS: house.gov
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: KENNEDY CENTER MILLENIUM STAGE features the arts and culture of Japan with a performance by Chisato Morohashi.
DATE: March 25, 2003
LOCATION: 2700 F Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-416-8000
WEB ADDRESS: kennedy-center.org
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a lecture entitled "Why Populist Parties Win in Europe" with Erik Jones, resident associate professor of European studies at the SAIS Bologna Center.
DATE: March 25, 2003
LOCATION: 1619 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202-663-5626
WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB presents Queen Noor discussing her memoir, Leap of Faith: Memoirs of an Unexpected Life at an author dinner.
DATE: March 25, 2003
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-662-7500
WEB ADDRESS: npc.press.org
TIME: 6:30 p.m.
EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES AND UNITED NATIONS ASSOCIATION OF THE NATIONAL CAPITAL AREA, will feature a discussion on "Humans for Sale: Trafficking Networks and their Impact on Global Security."
WHO: The speakers are:
Michele Clark, co-director of the Protection Project at SAIS
Robin Lerner, senior reporting officer for the State Department's Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons
John Cerone, executive director of the War Crimes Research Office at American University's Washington College of Law.
DATE: March 25, 2003
LOCATION: 1740 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, Dc
CONTACT: 202-663-5626
WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org
TIME: 6:30 p.m.
EVENT: WORLD WATCH INSTITUTE holds a program to discuss resource wars featuring Michael Renner, author of the report The Anatomy of Resource Wars, why disrupting the bloodstained business in conflict resources could serve to address key global and security concerns such as improving the nature of peacekeeping, ensuring human rights and rule of law, protecting biodiversity, and promoting economic diversification.
DATE: March 25, 2003
LOCATION: The George Washington University, Elliott School of International Affairs, 2013 G St., NW, Room 103, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202-452-1999
WEB ADDRESS: worldwatch.org
TIME: 6:30 p.m.
EVENT: COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS holds a program on France, Germany, & The U.S.: Putting the Pieces Back Together
WHO: The speakers are:
Wolfgang Ischinger, Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to the United States
Jean-David Levitte, Ambassador of France to the United States
Richard Holbrooke, Former United States Ambassador to the United Nations (1999-2001); Vice Chairman, Perseus, LLC
DATE: March 25, 2003
LOCATION: Washington Club, 15 Dupont Circle NW, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: Marieke Beeuwkes at 212-434-9716
WEB ADDRESS: cfr.org
TIME: 6:30 p.m.
EVENT: CARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON holds a lecture featuring Kip Thorne from Caltech's Department of Physics as he discusses "Probing the Universe with Gravitational Waves."
DATE: March 25, 2003
LOCATION: Carnegie Institution, 1530 P St., NW
Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202-939-1121
WEB ADDRESS: carnegieinstitution.org
TIME: 6:30 p.m.
EVENT: GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY International Connection Speaker Series presents a discussion with Molelekeng Rapolaki, ambassador of the Kingdom of Lesotho to the United States discussing The Historical Perspective of the Kingdom of Lesotho: The Current Situation and the Way Forward.
DATE: March 25, 2003
LOCATION: he George Washington University Club,
1918 F Street, NW, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202-994-2355
WEB ADDRESS: gwu.edu
TIME: 7 p.m.
EVENT: GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY presents Chong-Min Hyun is a visiting professor of political science at The George Washington University, Long Island University and Oklahoma State University discussing "Is North Korea Really Part of the Axis of Evil?" the first lecture in a three-part series on North Korean issues.
DATE: March 25, 2003
LOCATION: 800 21st Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-994-3087
WEB ADDRESS: gwu.edu
TIME: 7 p.m.
EVENT: POLITICS & PROSE BOOKSTORE presents Michael Mewshaw his new thriller, Shelter From The Storm featuring Zack McClintock, an over-the-hill "security consultant" reluctantly traveling to Central Asia in search of his kidnapped son-in-law.
DATE: March 25, 2003
LOCATION: 5015 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-364-1919
WEB ADDRESS: politics-prose.com
