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Line Up for Lobster Tonight
The Club's monthly lobster night is tonight, 5:30 pm to 8:30 pm at the Fourth Estate Restaurant. Members pay $25; non-members $30 for a steamed 1 ¼ pound Maine Lobster with coleslaw (or salad) and choice of French fries or oven-crisped new potatoes. A limited number of lobsters are available even if you haven't reserved; to check on them, call 202-662-7638. The regular Fourth Estate menu will be available for non-lobster lovers and desserts include chocolate and raspberry mousse, strawberry shortcake and sorbets from Moorenkos of Silver Spring.
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National Press Club to Host First Amendment Attorney Floyd Abrams
As U.S. prosecutors increasingly monitor reporters to get to the bottom of leaks, the National Press Club's Press Freedom Committee will host leading First Amendment attorney and press-freedom advocate Floyd Abrams, who will discuss these issues and his new book. Abrams, a senior partner in Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP, has been at the forefront of nearly every major press-freedom and free-speech case in the last 40 years—from the Pentagon papers in 1971 to the Citizens United case in 2010. His new book, "Friend of the Court: On the Front Lines with the First Amendment," culls in one…
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Swiss Banking Practices
Swiss banking practices are discussed in terms of law enforcement and jurisdiction.
Type: Media
NPC Welcomes Review of Leak Probes but Still Worries About Judicial Overreach
The National Press Club on Friday welcomed President Obama's directive that the Justice Department reexamine its policies for investigating leaks to the press. But the Club's president, Angela Greiling Keane, said journalists are worried about what appears to be a pattern of judicial overreach by the Obama administration. "We are greatly concerned that the Justice Department's actions in these cases will have a chilling effect on would-be whistleblowers," Greiling Keane said. Obama's decision to order the review, announced in a speech on Thursday, comes on the heels of reports about unusually…
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Despite Kidnapping, Author Urges Young People to Go to Africa
Young people interested in doing humanitarian-aid work in Africa should go, said Jessica Buchanan, a humanitarian-aid worker in Somalia who was kidnapped in 2011 and survived 93 days of captivity before being rescued by the U.S. military. “Make sure you are well informed. Make sure you take security seriously. Make sure you assess the risks,” Buchanan said at a National Press Club Book Rap May 22. Buchanan appeared with her husband, Erik Landemalm. Their New York Times bestseller, ``Impossible Odds: The Kidnapping of Jessica Buchanan and Her Dramatic Rescue by SEAL Team Six,'' was released…
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So You Want to Be a TV Star
"You're not anyone in America unless you're on TV," was a line Nicole Kidman tossed out in a 90's movie. Marital missteps put her character's career on ice, but the advice still holds. Television and radio appearances can broaden the reach of a print story, and advance the careers of the reporters who wrote them. But if your publication doesn't have publicists to line up such appearances, it falls to you, and it can be difficult to navigate the new terrain. The NPC Journalism Institute and the Club's Professional Development Committee are offering a primer on how to get on TV at 6:30 p.m.…
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"We Haz Jazz" in the Fourth Estate Restaurant
The Fourth Estate Restaurant's monthly Jazz Night takes place Wednesday, June 5. The event will be held in conjunction with Blues Alley in Georgetown. This month's event falls on the first night of the DC Jazz Festival and will feature members of the Blues Alley Youth Orchestra. Musicians are graduates of top music conservatories. They will play from 6-8 pm in the restaurant dinner as background music. There is no cover charge. There will be unique offers from Blues Alley for performance discounts and jazz items. Jazz Night is held on the first Wednesday of each month. Call 202-662-7638 for…
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1974 NPC President Kenneth Scheibel, decorated WWII vet, dies
1974 National Press Club President Kenneth Scheibel, a decorated World War II veteran whose journalism career dated to the Roosevelt administration, died May 6 at the Envoy Nursing Home in Alexandria. He was 92. Mr. Scheibel, born in Campbell, Nebraska on May 17, 1920, to G. Alfred and Rachel K. Scheibel, graduated high school in 1937 and worked as a newspaper reporter before World War II, his son, Ken Scheibel, Jr. said. He served in the U.S. Army from 1940 to 1946, rising from private to captain, his son said. His first assignment was as a cryptographer in London. His next and longest role…
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Business Reporter Stanley Cohen, a Platinum Owl, Dies at Age 93
Stanley Cohen, a business journalist and Platinum Owl, died May 6 of renal failure. He was 93. “He was upstairs at the Press Club a lot,” said Debra Silimeo, his daughter-in-law and a Club member. He would often take Silimeo's husband, Daniel Cohen, to Club-sponsored father and son baseball nights, she said. Cohen organized 73 luncheons as chair of the Speakers Committee in 1982. Guests included Indira Gandhi of India, Hosni Mubarak of Egypt, Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq of Pakistan, Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands and Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines. “He was extraordinary in his ability to have…
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Creator of "Second Glance" to Address Photo Committee
Randy Mays, creator of the Washington Post Magazine puzzle feature "Second Glance," will speak to the Photography Committee at noon Wednesday, May 29, in the McClendon Room. All Club members and their guests are welcome. No reservations are required. Mays will discuss why he changes the things he does and how he does it. He created "Second Glance" in 2007 and has over 300 of these puzzles to date. He joined the Post's Advertising Art department in 1985 and was an early adopter of the Mac and the attendant graphic design software including Photoshop. Also, don't forget the annual Members'…
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