leopold's agents, of whom the mythical kurtz was one, raided, slaughtered, mutilated, and pressed intopulation in a blood thirsty quest for first ivory, and then rubber. when independence finally came, the belgians trashed what they could and left behind a completely unprepared, tribally divided and largely ungovernable land mass filled with stuff that everybody in the world wanted. and things pretty much went downhill from there. ♪ >> anthony: but this story begins with a truck stop in rwanda. we're stocking up in rwanda because my expectations for food in the congo are more measured. ♪ if you're looking to get to the eastern congo, and many would ask why you'd even want to do that, the best way is to drive across from neighboring rwanda. this country, of course, not too long ago suffered its own appalling genocide. behind the wheel, dan. he's been living in the drc for two years working on a documentary about some of the several dozen rebel groups in the country. riding shotgun, dan's close friend and associate horeb, a congolese. they're taking me across the border. one side, rwanda

written about the dawn of the computer age now the work that you know, very well the author of king leopold. [applause] and joe jackson the author of black elk about the race across sea atlantic by a airplane thanks for being here. [applause] when we talk about a big history it is the need

and at iowa state's leopold center for sustainable agriculture, secretary perdue could hear about what the center calls, i'll quote them, aggravated and unpredictable risk that will challenge the security of our agricultural and biological systems. let me say that again. iowa state university's leopold center foresees aggravated and unpredictable risks that will challenge the security of our agricultural and biological systems. i'm from the ocean state, so let's turn to the oceans where the national climate assessment predicts that fishing costs are predicted to increase as fisheries transition to new species and as processing plants and fishing jobs shift polar ward. in the pacific northwest, ocean acidification caused a 70% loss of oyster larvae from 2006 to 2008 at an oyster hatchery in oregon. wild oyster stocks in washington state have failed as weather patterns bring more acidic water to the shore. this is an industry worth about $73 million annually, so we ought not to laugh this off. in alaska, the university of alaska has an ocean acidification research center -- that's how se

"swoon" doesn't have as its core a desire to locate leopold and loeb as victims or as heroes.the relationship. the chaotic, contradictory complex relationship of them. so that in a certain degree, you are made to participate. i'm not peddling family values in "swoon," for instance. i'm peddling values that are much more complicated that ask you to ask questions about, for instance, the ideology of the family or sexual or racial roles, or various positions in society. and i think at the heart a lot of movies in hollywood do have an extremely strong and unself-critical promotion of family values, et cetera. (tom kalin) and i think "swoon" wants to interrupt that and recognize that the audience is more complicated and diverse than it's been constituted by mainstream film. using "new queer" cinema as a banner in which to market films has its pluses, obviously because films get more press they get a movement. but on the other hand, i think it's a great disservice to a film like "swoon," which i think, certainly transcends issues of sexuality and gender into much broader, stronger i

written about the dawn of the computer age now the work that you know, very well the author of king leopold. [applause] and joe jackson the author of black elk about the race across sea atlantic by a airplane thanks for being here. [applause] when we talk about a big history it is the need that unless you're writing a college textbook how do you find one character or one moment to say this is 600 pages with that one story or moment? who wants to talk about that first? >> bed genesis of all of my books and networking on the seventh starts when i become interested in a topic orate a person to discover there isn't enough written about him or occurred to satisfy my curiosity proposal i approach olivines has educational efforts fell dedicate myself to learn everything that i can and hopefully the adn to find a moment at has broader issues like big science uh genesis of that was an interest in cosmology in physics if you read that field the enough you will come across the name laurence who invented in the '30's because he invented this machine that required millions of dollars to operate, he bega

the leopold and loeb case, he was an incredible labor attorney and a really inspirational figure.merica, but we did it -- when we did it at "the old vic" we reconfigured the theatre into a a theatre in the round. and i thought, you know, how can i find a theater in the round? there aren't really many theaters in the round at all. and then a while back, i was at the opening of the u.s. open. i was, you know, with arthur ashe, and i was watching. it was the night where they had a concert, you know, the opening, so there's a band playing and the lights were on, not normally as it -- as it looks. i suddenly thought, wait a a minute, drama happens on this court all the time -- >> jimmy: yeah. >> and so i am announcing right now that on june 15th and 16th, we're just announcing two performances, we are doing this play about clarence darrow at "arthur ashe stadium" in queens. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> jimmy: i mean, come on. now, that is a big deal. june 15th. >> we're just announcing -- we're just announcing tonight, the 15th and 16th of june, tickets will go on sale on ticketmaster.

william daugherty is here with us today courtesy of leopold's ice cream. [laughter] where are they? william j. daugherty served eight years in the u.s. pa marine corps before joining the central intelligence agency where he served as an operations officer for 17 years. dr. daugherty is professor emeritus of government at the university of california-irvine. he is the author of "executive secrets: covert action and the presidency" and "in the shadow of the ayatollah: a cia hostage in iran." and he also lives here in savannah. please give a warm, hometown welcome to william daugherty. ms. . >> thank you all for coming. what an amazing crowd. shouldn't you all be out playing tennis or walking your dog or something -- [laughter] i do want to, need to correct one thing. i just did a degree at the university of california. actually, i'm an emeritus professor at armstrong. and and since i have a cap tuf audience here -- captive audience, i'm going to digress from my normal talk for two minutes and address the university of georgia board of regents. [laughter] about 10 or 12 years ago, arms

leopold, huffington post contributor. on the human rights council, is the united states going to stay in? because they don't just allegedly bash israel, they bash a lot of other countries. that is the purpose of it. amb. haley: what we are looking at is, what does the human rights council do well? what does it not do well? what would the united states want to see to continue to participate? i will be going to geneva in june and will be having this conversation is in terms of what add ald like to see a decision about the human rights council will be made after that at some point. we are wanting to give them a chance to actually see if they can fall into line with something we could be a part of. that could be my answer and hopefully we can work towards some positive changes in the human rights council. >> npr? >> thank you. i have a question regarding syria. we know that political talks will be going on between the rebels, so-called moderate rebels and the regime. but excluded from that is al qaeda and isis. we also know t

william daugherty is here with us today courtesy of leopold's ice cream. [laughter] where are they? william j. daugherty served