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EVENTS ON THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 2003
TIME: All Day
EVENT: AMERICAN MUSLIM COUNCIL will hold its 3rd special session of Imam/Leadership Conference
AGENDA: Highlight:
6:00 p.m. – Reception Welcoming Remarks
Yahya Basha, AMC President
7 p.m. - Scholars Perspective On Political Participation
Bashir G. Ahmed
Taha Jabir al-Alwani, President, GraduateSchool of Islamic and Social Sciences
Muhammad Al-Hanooti, Member, Fiqh Council of North America
Salah Soltan, President, American Islamic University, Michigan
Mahmoud Ayoub, Temple Uni.
8:30 p.m. - Maghrib Prayer
9 p.m. - Workshop Great Hall
Presentation of 'Islam in Brief'
Presenter: Fadel Soliman, National Chaplain of WAMY in North America
10:03 p.m. - ISHA' PRAYER Lakeside I
DATE: June 6, 2003
LOCATION: 5000 Seminary Road, Alexandria, VA
CONTACT: 202-543-0075
TIME: All Day
EVENT: NATIONAL MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION conference themed America's Mental Health Crisis: Finding Solutions Together. Mental health leaders from across the country to share and discover innovative ways to improve access to care, fight stigma and develop mental health programs that can make a difference — all during this time state budget crises.
DATE: June 6, 2003
LOCATION: Hyatt Regency Washington - Capitol Hill, 400 New Jersey Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: Chris Condayan, 703-838-7551
WEB ADDRESS: nmha.org
TIME: 9 a.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB INVESTIGATIVE REPORTERS AND EDITORS, INC. annual conference.
AGENDA: Highlights:
Brown Bag Lunch with Media Lawyers
David Smallman, Steinhart | Falconer LLC
Charles D. Tobin, Holland & Knight LLP
5:30 p.m. - Showcase Panel
Covering the war: From national security to Iraq
reporting on national security issues and the Iraq war have presented tough challenges in dealing with a secrecy-laden administration. Top investigative reporters with decades of experience and perspective will talk about different approaches to getting at the truth.
Moderator: Judy Woodruff, CNN
Seymour Hersh, The New Yorker
Bob Woodward, The Washington Post
David Martin, CBS News
DATE: June 6, 2003
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-662-7500
WEB ADDRESS: npc.press.org
TIME: 9:15 a.m.
EVENT: AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FIRST FRIDAYS SEMINAR SERIES IN ECONOMIC POLICY entitled "Taxes and Asset Prices."
WHO: The speakers are:
Eric M. Engen, AEI
Clemens Sialm, University of Michigan Business School
Randall Mariger, U.S. Treasury
Steve Sharpe, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
Eric M. Engen, AEI
DATE: June 6, 2003
LOCATION: 1150 17th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-862-5933
WEB ADDRESS: aei.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: CATO INSTITUTE holds a hill briefing on Entitlement Spending Explosion: Implications for the Federal Budget, Taxpayers, and Young Americans.
WHO: The speakers are:
Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Director, Congressional Budget Office
Jagadeesh Gokhale, Visiting Scholar, American Enterprise Institute
Chris Edwards, Director, Fiscal Policy Studies, Cato Institute
DATE: June 6, 2003
LOCATION: B-338 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202-789-5229
WEB ADDRESS: cato.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE holds an informal Friday forum on "Bringing Back ROTC To College Campuses." featuring AEI Resident Scholar Christina Hoff Sommers.
DATE: June 6, 2003
LOCATION: 1150 17th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-862-5933
WEB ADDRESS: aei.org
TIME: 12:15 p.m.
EVENT: NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION holds a program on Bush's Bounce? What The World Thinks About Post-Saddam American Foreign Policy.
WHO: The speakers are:
Bruce Stokes, Economics Columnist, National Journal and Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations
Mary Mcintosh, Vice President, Princeton Survey Research
Steven Clemons, Executive Vice President, New America Foundation
DATE: June 6, 2003
LOCATION: 1630 Connecticut Ave., NW, 7th Floor, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Jud Mathews, 202-986-4901
WEB ADDRESS: newamerica.net
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: KENNEDY CENTER MILLENIUM STAGE presents The Frankie Condon Orchestra, a seventeen-piece ensemble, playing its own arrangements of the best big band, swing and dance music.
DATE: June 6, 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 Sidney Blumenthal discussing and signing copies of The Clinton Wars. Blumenthal wrote for the Washington Post and the New Yorker, then joined the Clinton White House as Senior Adviser. He was a target of the right wing, along with his boss, and testified at the impeachment hearings. The author of several other books, including The Rise of the Counter Establishment, Blumenthal writes as both participant and observer.
DATE: June 6, 2003
LOCATION: 5015 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202-364-1919
WEB ADDRESS: politics-prose.com
