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EVENTS ON MONDAY, APRIL 21, 2003
TIME: All Day
EVENT: COUNCIL ON HEALTH CARE ECONOMICS AND POLICY, CALIFORNIA HEALTHCARE, ASSOCIATION, CENTER FOR STUDYING HEALTH SYSTEM CHANGE, CIGNA, FEDERATION OF AMERICAN HOSPITALS, GENERAL ELECTRIC, HEALTH AFFAIRS, AND JOHNSON & JOHNSON hold a conference to discuss "The American Hospital: What Does the Future Hold?"
WHO: The speakers are:
Jeff Goldsmith, President, Health Futures, Inc.
Stuart Altman, Chairman, Council on Health Care Economics and Policy
Uwe Reinhardt, Princeton University
Rick Wolfert, President and Chief Executive Officer, GE Capital Healthcare Financial Services
Richard L. Clarke, President and Chief Executive Officer, Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA)
Peter I. Buerhaus, Vanderbilt University School of Nursing
Harold S. Luft, University of California, San Francisco
Adams Dudley, M.D., University of California, San Francisco
Lawton R. Burns, The Wharton School
David Nash, M.D., Jefferson Medical College
Hugh Long, Tulane University
Catherine McLaughlin, The University of Michigan
DATE: April 21, 2003
LOCATION: Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C
CONTACT: 202-624-1527
WEB ADDRESS: fah.com
TIME: 9 a.m.
EVENT: GENERAL WESLEY K. CLARK, FORMER SUPREME ALLIED COMMANDER OF NATO holds a news conference to announce a new wave of transportation that will deliver unprecedented power and efficiency, enable new and better vehicles, conserve natural resources and reduce our dependence on foreign oil.
DATE: April 21, 2003
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-775-2642
TIME: 9a.m.
EVENT: WHITE HOUSE EASTER EGG ROLL featuring Second Lady Lynne Cheney. She is joined by U.S. military families from all branches. The annual event this year honors active duty and reserve members of the military and their families.
AGENDA: President Rutherford B. Hayes officially opened the White House grounds to local children for egg rolling on Easter Monday 1878.
DATE: April 21, 2003
LOCATION: White House, Washington, D.C.
WEB ADDRESS: whitehouse.gov
TIME: 9 a.m.
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a book launch for Between Faith and History-A Biography of J.A. Kufuor.
WHO: The speakers are:
John Agyekum Kufuor became the President of Ghana on January 7, 2001. The road to the presidency was tortuous and is reflective of Ghana's political history, which since Kwame Nkrumah led to independence in 1957, has been dominated by military interventions and dictatorships
Ben-Fred Mensa is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Howard University. The session will be moderated by Gilbert M. Khadiagala, Project Consultant, African Project at the Woodrow Wilson Center
DATE: April 21, 2003
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE holds a conference on "The New Antitrust Paradox: Policy Proliferation in the Global Economy."
AGENDA: Highlights:
1:45 p.m. - Welcoming Remarks: Michael S. Greve, AEI
Introductory Remarks: Richard A. Epstein, University of Chicago
2:15 p.m. - Panel One: Antitrust Proliferation
William Kovacic, FTC
George L. Priest, Yale Law School
Michael S. Greve
4 p.m. - Panel Two: Vertical Coordination
Michael DeBow, Cumberland Law School
William Adkinson, Progress & Freedom Foundation
Michael S. Greve
6:30 p.m. - Dinner
Introduction of Keynote Speaker: Christopher C. DeMuth, AEI
Is Federalism Overrated?
Richard Posner, Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
DATE: April 21, 2003
LOCATION: 1150 17th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-862-5933
WEB ADDRESS: aei.org
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE holds its second annual Earth Day panel will review environmental trends and conditions in the United States. The panel will mark the formal release of the eighth edition of the Index of Leading Environmental Indicators by F. K. Weyerhaeuser Fellow Steven F. Hayward.
WHO: The speakers are:
Sally Pipes, Pacific Research Institute
Steven F. Hayward, AEI
Joel Schwartz, AEI
DATE: April 21, 2003
LOCATION: 1150 17th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-862-5933
WEB ADDRESS: aei.org
TIME: 11:30 a.m.
EVENT: THE U.S. CONGRESSIONAL FORUM ON LAOS holds a panel discussion and policy luncheon to discuss State-sponsored support for "Axis-of-Evil" terrorist regimes, including Iraq and North Korea, by the Lao Communist regime, as well as growing Congressional opposition to granting NTR trade status to Laos. The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom's recent report on persecution in Laos will also be discussed.
DATE: April 21, 2003
LOCATION: LOC, Montpelier Room, Madison Building, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: Anna Jones or Philip Smith, 202-543-1444
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program discussing "The Bear and the Crescent: Russia, Islam and the War on Terrorism," with Ariel Cohen, Research Fellow, Heritage Foundation.
DATE: April 21, 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: VOTE HEMP holds a rally and demonstration against, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) published their final rules on hemp foods. The new "Final Rule" essentially bans the sale of all hemp food products by April 21, 2003 and is virtually identical to an "Interpretive Rule" issued on October 9, 2001 that never went into effect because of a U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Stay issued on March 7, 2002.
DATE: April 21, 2003
LOCATION: DEA, 700 Army Navy Drive, Arlington, VA
CONTACT: Adam Eidinger, 202-986-6186.
WEB ADDRESS: votehemp.com
TIME: 4 p.m.
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a book launch for Taking Liberties: Four Decades in the Struggle for Rights with author Aryeh Neier, President, Soros Foundation.
DATE: April 21, 2003
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
TIME: 5:30 p.m.
EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a lecture entitled forum, "United States Trade Policy: A Work in Progress."
WHO: The speakers are:
Judith Dean, international economist at the Office of Economics Research Division of the U.S. International Trade Commission
Michael Mandelbaum, director of the SAIS American Foreign Policy Program
Sherman Katz, William M. Scholl Chair in International Business at the Center for Strategic and International Studies
DATE: April 21, 2003
LOCATION: 1619 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-663-5626
WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: KENNEDY CENTER MILLENIUM STAGE features Le Neon's Exercices de Style telling the same short story in 100 different literary styles from French Farce to Classic Tragedy.
DATE: April 21, 2003
LOCATION: 2700 F Street NW, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202-416-8000
WEB ADDRESS: kennedy-center.org
TIME: 7 p.m.
EVENT: POLITICS & PROSE BOOKSTORE presents Mark Costello discussing and signing copies of Big If: A Novel. Costello follows the lives of members of a Secret Service protection unit charged with guarding the Vice President. While billed as a thriller, it is actually a droll, acute description of the ups and downs and petty competitions in working America.
DATE: April 21, 2003
LOCATION: 5015 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202-364-1919
WEB ADDRESS: politics-prose.com
TIME: 8 p.m.
EVENT: AMERICAN UNIVERSITY School of Communication will host An American Forum panel discussion titled, Embedded Journalists: Is TRUTH the First Casualty of War?
WHO: The speakers are:
Tamala Edwards, White House correspondent, ABC
Michael Getler, ombudsman, The Washington Post
Captain T. McCreary, public affairs advisor to Joint Chiefs of Staff, Department of Defense
Martin Turner, Washington bureau chief, BBC
DATE: April 21, 2003
LOCATION: 4400 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-885-5950
WEB ADDRESS: au.edu
