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To take a lot longer to figure out. >> as i said at the beginning of this hour, in 1899, it was explained when the term was coined conspicuous consumption. i don't know what else that watch is other than that. explain this to me. how does it get from being a $350 watch to a $10,000 watch? how does that happen? >> it's a really terrific question. so it all depends on materials, right? there are three different kinds. and the mainstream sort of watch is going to be either $550 or $650. but if you really want to go crazy, and apple has said they're going to make a limited number of these only in ...

Add one more senator to the republican column. bill cassidy defeated mary landrieu in louisiana. as expected, yesterday's runoff election wasn't even close with cassidy taking 56% of the vote. republicans now have 54 seats in the senate. it also will be the first time in 138 years that a democrat hasn't represented louisiana in the u.s. senate. republicans also held a house seat in louisiana. if the party holds in a recount in arizona, this is going to mean that the gop has their largest house majority since the hoover administration. it means by the way that the 114th congress will contain 53...

Largest house majority since the hoover administration. it means by the way that the 114th congress will contain 53 senators who had previously served in the house of representatives, that's more than any congress since 1899, before the direct election of senators. critics argue this means this is the housification of the senate. they think it increases polarization of the most deliberative body of the worldment eed. eed. we have the technology. and we have the team. we made over 15 billion successful deliveries last year. 15 billion! football has a season. baseball has a season. this is our s...

And it's a by-product of a colonial -- british colonial dispute over a boundary. and basically, britain drew the line in 1899. and three years later, egypt decided that they wanted to move the line to the 22nd parallel. and the piece of ground that is contested between the two countries is the halabi triangle. and because of the conflict and the way the boundary situation, the debate has been over the halabi triangle, which is a far more valuable and larger piece of land and bir tawil for over 100 years has been left in the dustbin of governance, and it has been unclaimed. it was very exciting...

Into a very serious tone. and coy tell her demeanor had changed. and after a moment of silence, she looked at me and said daddy, will i ever be a real princess? and, you know, you never as a parent want to tell a child they can't be something. if she had asked a question could she be a doctor or lawyer, the answer most certainly would have been yes. so i responded as yes as a reply. and being a parent that doesn't like to make false promises to their children, after i had said those words to her, i knew that i had to act in some way to try to honor that. >> so you can actually make the claim t...