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I cant think what it was. It was something. Ken loach, welcome to this cultural life. Its a great pleasure to come. And good to see you. You, too. You were born in 1936. You grew up in the midlands. Tell me about your family. What did your parents do . My father was an electrical engineer. Took his apprenticeship in the mines. The whole family, my fathers family were miners from the warwickshire coalfields, and he worked at Alfred Herberts machine tool factory all his life. Ao odd years. Skilled worker, then . Yes, a skilled worker, electrician. And he had a work ethic that was formidable. He worked seven days a week and my mother had been a hairdresser. But like women of that time, it was a matter of pride for my father that she should not have to work. But. Lovely woman, very kind. What sort of cultural upbringing did you have at home . Well, it was a very normal, i guess, suburban house, semidetached, in nuneaton. Erm. Cinemas ....
[dramatic music] the martha stewart story is very much about having no limits. in a male-dominated business world, she became a self-made corporate titan no, you cannot say this. by being the most intimidating homemaker on earth. martha stewart became an icon of design, icon of cooking. but there were always people who wanted to be against martha stewart. we re looking for imperfections. we re looking for cracks. we re looking for the fall. we re here to announce criminal charges against martha stewart. [chatter] this year s ipo activity so far is about $9 billion. i think it s a mania going on right now. the 1999 initial public offering market blasted off with internet frenzy. some of these valuations are in another galaxy. i ve never really seen anything like this. so at this time in 1999, this was the dot-com boom. this was the heyday of initial public offerings, ipos, on wall street, right? so there was money flowing into these companies, and martha stewart was a ....
50 years ago humpback whales were considered an endangered species after decades of commercial whaling decimated the population. around that same time scientists learned something extraordinary. whales were communicating with each other, sometimes by song over long distances. in part because of that discovery scientists and conservationists rallied to enact laws to protect the whales, and it worked. the humpback whale population has made a remarkable comeback. but now they face a host of new threats. global warming is killing off their food source, and human activity is causing thousands of whale deaths a year. from the stress of underwater construction noise to fishing entanglements and ship collisions. in the next hour cnn s bill weir takes us to antarctica, a place very few people get to visit, to study these remarkable creatures and show us why saving the whales may also be saving the planet. because they are one of our best partners in battling climate change. re ....
agent found a white powdery substance during a patrol of the west wing. this prompted a shutdown of some of the white house campus and. the d.c. fire department s hazmat team identified it as cocaine. and their dispatch initially said it was found in the library. then on tuesday afternoon, a secret service spokesman confirmed the details, but clarified the initial reports that it was found inside the library were incorrect. and then also on tuesday afternoon to law enforcement, officials told the associated press that the cocaine was found in area accessible to tour groups. but on wednesday, karine jean-pierre clearly appeared flummoxed when describing where the cocaine was discovered, where this was discovered is a heavily traveled area where many white house west wing. i should be even more specific ,a west wing visitors come through this particular area. i just don t have anything more to share. it is under investigation by the secret service. and yesterday, the st ....
corporate titan no, you cannot say this. by being the most intimidating homemaker on earth. martha stewart became an icon of design, icon of cooking. but there were always people who wanted to be against martha stewart. we re looking for imperfections. we re looking for cracks. we re looking for the fall. we re here to announce criminal charges against martha stewart. [chatter] this year s ipo activity so far is about $9 billion. i think it s a mania going on right now. the 1999 initial public offering market blasted off with internet frenzy. some of these valuations are in another galaxy. i ve never really seen anything like this. so at this time in 1999, this was the dot-com boom. this was the heyday of initial public offerings, ipos, on wall street, right? so there was money flowing into these companies, and martha stewart was a household name with a storyline that wall street could understand and get behind. she s in the middle of an ever-expanding martha universe ....