Usa todays susan page talks about the life and career of Barbara Walters. She is interviewed by former abc News White House correspondent al compton. After words is a weekly Interview Program with relevant progress towards interviewing top nonfiction authors about the latest work. Season, Barbara Walters was known as a history maker, and groundbreaking. But where a will break . We struggle with the title. I would ask people, what should i write . People suggested things like Million Dollar baby. These are actually slings and arrows that she endures. It was interesting. Thats what came to mind of some people when i cant biography of Barbara Walters. But it was a matter strikes me as a rule breaker. And rule breaker seems to be exactly right because Barbara Walters broke every rule arrived, she didnt break, she ignored them. Pretend that she couldnt see them. So the idea that a woman can do serious interviews, she ignored it and went ahead and schedule serious interviews. The idea that a
Ill check with the center for missing and exploited children. In the meantime, any idea how we can pick up their trail . Yeah, taysachs is most common among certain ethnic groups, particularly the jewish community. Same old story when a else fails, round up the jews. Its also common among frenchcanadians and cajuns. Genetic screening has drastically reduced the amount of taysachs babies. Both parents need to carry the gene and they were probably never tested. If i had a kid with some rare disease, first thing id do is find a doctor who specializes in it. Man its a horrible disease. Worse than most parents can possibly bear. And how close are you to a cure . Years away. Taysachs patients are missing a key enzyme. Without it, a fatty substance builds up in the brain causing progressive loss of function and eventually, death. Would our victim have shown any symptoms . Nothing the parents would have noticed until about six months. Then why did they have their baby tested . The cherry red s
It is my great pleasure to introduce the chairman of the Kennedy Library Foundation Board of directors who gives endlessly of his time and extraordinary talents to both this institution and to our country. [applause] to welcome everybody here this morning. This is one of the great highlights of the year for this Great Library and we are honored to have all of you here with us today to celebrate a very special day. As we begin the ceremony, i want to acknowledge a couple of people who are pivotal and we are pleased that they are here today. First, my close friend and a man hisgives whatever he asked, vision, his work indispensable to this institution. Not do not know this but it is said that designed the tiffany lantern we will be presenting to our distinguished awardees. That is one of the many things that it does for us and i appreciate that. And rosewelcome Ed Schlossberg is here today. We are happy to have jack schlossberg. Shy in ourt deliberations. We will hear more about jack and
An expert in hand surgery without knowing much about the rest of the human body, so also one can become expert in various segments of the law without knowing much about the rest. We should call the former a hand surgeon rather than a doctor; and the latter a realestate conveyancer, or h r block, but not a lawyer. Those of you who have walked the streets of paris may have noticed signs here and there. Jurisconsult. Not avocats, lawyers. I am not even sure whether one must pass an exam or have any special training to work in such hang out a sign. I suspect not. None of you who are being graduated today is being certified an expert in patent or employment law. You are instead receiving degrees that attest to your successful completion of a sustained threeyear study of law. The mastery of that subject is what turns the student into a legal professional. This is the traditional view, well expressed by an earlier, and wiser, aba panel in 1921. And i quote Legal Education , should produce a r
Money comes and goes, but if you get an Honorary Degree attached, that stays with you until the end of your days. There are certainly speakers who are brought in because there is a hope that they have a particular interest in a program that will be initiated or is ongoing at the university. The university is honoring them because of the shared interest and hoping they will be donating to the university in the future. Many cases were Commencement Speakers and Honorary Degrees are targeted to people of means in the hope they will work with the university in building some particular program. Typically, they will not be offered any fee at all. The University Needs their money. Carey nelson is former president of the American Association of University Professors and he serves as an english professor at the university of illinois and our viewers can find out more at your website. I also think once you have announced the commencement speaker, withdrawing it is an act of cowardice. That has ha