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NPC New Member Lunch
This event is an orientation lunch for new members who have recently joined the Club. It is by invitation only. If you have joined the Club within the past year and are interested in attending a future lunch please contact the Membership department by emailing [email protected].
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Eat, Meet, Love? Wine Dinner with Washington Post's "Cooking for One" columnist Joe Yonan
Join the Washington Post Food section's Joe Yonan for a six-course meal featuring recipes from Yonan's new cookbook, "Serve Yourself: Nightly Adventures in Cooking for One" at 6 p.m., Tuesday March 29 at the Club's Fourth Estate restaurant. Yonan, who has two James Beard Awards, will share his methods for creating simply good food, in great variety and in portions to suit the 31 million single adults feeding themselves every day. Couples and groups are welcome (you can, after all, double the recipes), but there will be special tables set aside for single diners so they can meet, greet…
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Rep. John Conyers
REP. JOHN CONYERS AT NATIONAL PRESS CLUB 10 A.M. MONDAY, MARCH 14 Judiciary Ranking Democrat and Dean of Congressional Black Caucus to Address Issues of Guns, Health Care, Afghanistan, Jobs and Workers’ Rights Washington, D.C. – U.S. Rep. John Conyers Jr. (D-Michigan), ranking minority member of the House Judiciary Committee, will speak and take questions at a National Press Club Newsmaker at 10 a.m. Monday, March 14, in the National Press Building, 529 14th St. NW, 13th floor. Conyers is expected to address congressional inaction on guns, and also discuss health care, Afghanistan, jobs,…
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Commedia dell Media
Note: Online ticket sales for this event have ended, but a limited number of tickets will be available at the door for $20. At the National Press Club on Friday, April 1, twelve esteemed members of the DC press corps will battle to be named DC’s Funniest Journalist. Washington Post cartoonist Nick Galifianakis will host and PBS’s Miles O’Brien will headline the show at the National Press Club. Tickets are now on sale for Commedia dell Media III. Currently sharpening their wits in preparation for the competition, the candidates for Commedia dell Media III are: Politico’s Meredith Shiner, Nadia…
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Richard North Patterson
Richard North Patterson will discuss his new book, "The Devil's Light." A nuclear bomb is about to explode in a major city whose streets will turn bright with the light of a thousand suns. In his latest, brilliant novel, Richard North Patterson slips into the minds of the mad and messianic and explores what it will mean for all of us if we allow an apocalyptic nightmare to become tomorrow's history-bending reality. Patterson does it again with his gripping storytelling, as "The Devil's Light" grabs you from the first page. The author graduated in 1968 from Ohio Wesleyan University and in 1971…
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Kim Barker
Kim Barker will discuss her book, "The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan." Barker was an unlikely foreign correspondent—she did not own a passport, only spoke English, and knew little about Osama bin Laden or Islam. In the wake of 9/11, her bosses at the Chicago Tribune were looking to put reporters on the ground in the Middle East and Barker decided she was up for the challenge, and later being named the South Asia bureau chief for the Chicago Tribune. “The Taliban Shuffle” is her account of the 8 years she spent reporting on the “forgotten war” in Afghanistan and…
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International Correspondents Panel to Analyze Digital Media's Role in Egyptian Uprising
Panel to Analyze Digital Media's Role in Egyptian Uprising, Feb. 28 A panel of journalists will explore how the digital media revolution sparked the popular uprising that ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 28, in the First Amendment Lounge. Riz Khan, host of The Riz Khan Show on Al Jazeera English, will give the keynote address and discuss how Al Jazeera stayed on top of the breaking news in Egypt despite government attempts to shut down the Internet. Earlier in his career, he held senior editorial positions at the BBC and CNN International. Khan's remarks will…
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NPC Travel Committee
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U.S. Policy Toward Iraq
Mr. Berger talked about the current crisis in Iraq and the steps the United States government is taking to alleviate the crisis. Iraq has continually refused United Nations weapons inspectors to investigate certain sites within Iraq. Following his prepared remarks, Mr. Berger answered questions from the audience.
Type: Media
NPC Luncheon: Douglas Shulman, Commissioner, IRS
IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman to Talk Taxes at National Press Club:Top Tax Man to Discuss the Future of the Country’s Tax System, April 6 WASHINGTON, March 21, 2011 -- Now in his third year of a five-year term as Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Douglas H. Shulman, the 47th IRS commissioner, will speak at a National Press Club Speakers Luncheon on April 6. Mr. Shulman, who is responsible for collecting $2.4 trillion in tax revenues, will give a speech titled: “On the Horizon: A Vision for the Future of Our Tax System.” So far in 2011, the IRS announced the details of a new voluntary…
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