So, again, encouraging people to take their seats. Good evening, everyone. My name is kai bird, im the new executive director of the Leon Levy Center for biography which is celebrating its tenth year now all due to shelby white and the leon levy foundation. And i want to advertise, first of all, our new alliance with bio. This is our first sort of jointlysponsored event with them, but we are also, courtesy of will swift here the president of bio, we are also going to be doing, cosponsoring their great annual conference on biography next may. And that will also be happening here at cuny. Should be a great event with over 200 biographers. I also want to advertise and put out the word, we have a december 15th deadline for our new, our annual fellowship, and there are four fellowships given out every year of 65,000 a pop for aspiring biographers. So if you know of people who are aspiring, please encourage them to apply. And finally, i just, you know, im really thrilled that were able to do
It was the first time the troops had come to grips with the terrible loss signified by seven battlefield crosses. And we wondered whats become of them. We caught up with them on a field trip, part of their washington reunion. What do they think of their war . Was coming home the homecoming they hoped for . Simon when he made his comeback, levine, now in a wheelchair, before even lifting his baton, got a standing ovation. applause he would conduct mozarts cosi fan tutte, one of his favorites. If you could see music as well as hear it, you would see it in the face of james levine. Im steve kroft. Im scott pelley. Im anderson cooper. Im lara logan. Im bill whitaker. Im lesley stahl. Those stories, including one of the last completed by our colleague bob simon before he died, tonight on 60 minutes. And i didnt get here alone. There were people who listened along the way. People who gave me options. Kept me on track. And through it all my retirement never got left behind. So today, im prepa
Stood rigid in a mudwalled memorial service. It was the first time the troops had come to grips with the terrible loss signified by seven battlefield crosses. And we wondered whats become of them. We caught up with them on a field trip, part of their washington reunion. What do they think of their war . Was coming home the homecoming they hoped for . Simon when he made his comeback, levine, now in a wheelchair, before even lifting his baton, got a standing ovation. applause he would conduct mozarts cosi fan tutte, one of his favorites. If you could see music as well as hear it, you would see it in the face of james levine. Im steve kroft. Im scott pelley. Im anderson cooper. Im lara logan. Im bill whitaker. Im lesley stahl. Those stories, including one of the last completed by our colleague bob simon before he died, tonight on 60 minutes. And i didnt get here alone. There were people who listened along the way. People who gave me options. Kept me on track. And through it all my retirem
It was the first time the troops had come to grips with the terrible loss signified by seven battlefield crosses. And we wondered whats become of them. We caught up with them on a field trip, part of their washington reunion. What do they think of their war . Was coming home the homecoming they hoped for . Simon when he made his comeback, levine, now in a wheelchair, before even lifting his baton, got a standing ovation. applause he would conduct mozarts cosi fan tutte, one of his favorites. If you could see music as well as hear it, you would see it in the face of james levine. Im steve kroft. Im scott pelley. Im anderson cooper. Im lara logan. Im bill whitaker. Im lesley stahl. Those stories, including one of the last completed by our colleague bob simon before he died, tonight on 60 minutes. And i didnt get here alone. There were people who listened along the way. People who gave me options. Kept me on track. And through it all my retirement never got left behind. So today, im prepa
And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. The 1960s, two. 3 chilean dollars in aid has gone to developing countries in an effort to eradicate poverty with only limited results. Is now seniorly fellow at the brookings institution. He has written extensively about ,his issue and in his new text the tearing of experts, economists and dictators and the forgotten rights of the poor, he calls for radical rethinking of our approach to development. To have you, good back on this program. Good to be back. Tavis this is a bold and provocative and inyourface title, the tearing of experts. Who are you talking about . Im talking about what i used staff, thed bank Gates Foundation, the rockefeller foundation. We have this paternalistic attitude in which we think we know what is best for poor people, and we dont recognize poor peoples rights to determine their own destiny, to determine their own democratic destiny. That is what we fundamentally disrespect in the busin