who is the head of the arabian studies program at durham university and he says the event organized under the auspices of the deal that they have with the iranian government was monopolized by pro ahmadinejad's speakers and he also said that money from iran comes with strings attached so there is this enormous amount of concern about this money and how it affects academic independence and freedom of thinking at british universities. saudi arabia has given a total of in the region of sixty eight million dollars to british universities in edinburgh and cambridge they've used that money to build centers of islamic studies and a saudi prince is allowed to then choose members of the management committee at both centers china also around a million dollars used to form cultural and language centers again so sheffield university and the university of edinburgh have benefited from that money and the chinese government refers to those centers as part of it foreign propaganda strategy so really a wide range of money the same suspects in terms of universities appearing a lot but big powerful and impo

develop supply and when he asked the business secretary to meet with local businesses to boost jobs in durham and the northeast? >> i'm happy to arrange that meeting. the point the honorable lady makes is absolutely right. we have to make sure at a time when frankly any government would have to make public sector cuts, we have to make sure the private sector grows. that's why we have the regional growth fund that's putting money. that is why we're going to be introducing things like enterprise zones. that is why if she sits and waits patiently she'll hear a whole series of measures to fire up the private sector and make sure we get growth right across our country. >> council tax increased mercilously year after year. can the chancellor tell me how many were -- >> my friend makes a good point. people do face a difficult situation. we are lifting people out of income tax. we are uprating in terms with earnings instead of prices. and i'm sure the chancellor will have a few things to say in a minute or two. >> the prime minister to the campaign around the north, campaign. and i know he will be wo

. >> everybody loves good old "bull durham." it's one of my girlfriend's favorite.durham" and many of involves a love triangle takes place in the minor leagues. it's about guys playing for the love of the game. not about multiyear, million dollar contracts. kevin costner, the veteran catcher and then tim robbins. in the middle is annie, groupie for minor league baseball team and has her own way of indoctrinating a single player every year. take a listen. >> his eyelids are jammed and his old man's here. we need -- we need a live rooster to take the curse off jose's glove and nobody knows what to get millie or jimmy for their wedding present, is that about right? >> candlesticks always make a nice gift. maybe you could find where she's registered silverware or a nice place setting. >> okay. let's get to. >> enjoy this movie. great chemistry, great dialogue. costner in his prime, comparison of baseball to sex and baseball to religion. susan sarandon is great. a fun baseball movie. a classic. >> i love -- that's where tim robbins and susan sarandon met. let's get to "a

course that we've already heard about there's a man who is the head of the arabian studies program at durham university and he says this is an event organized under the auspices of the deal that they have with the iranian government was monopolized by pro ahmadinejad's speakers and he also said that money from iran comes with strings attached so there is an enormous amount of concern about this money and how it affects academic independence and freedom of thinking at british universities iran also gave money to which and the money was used to fund to scholarships one of those scholarships was awarded to integrating in a cleric with close links to the regime in iran saudi arabia has given a total of in the region of sixty million dollars to british universities cambridge oxford so as a bird again in edinburgh and cambridge they've used that money to build centers of islamic studies and a saudi prince is allowed to then choose members of the management committee at centers and in oxford a member of the saudi government comes every year to address students again under the auspices of deals chin

will the as the business secretary to meet with local businesses and the durham county council about that, to boost jobs and drum and the northeast? >> i am very happy to arrange that meeting. the point that the hon. lady makes is absolutely right. we have to make sure that, at a time when any government would be making public sector, we have to make sure that the private sector grows. that is why we have the regional growth fund. that is why we are introducing things like enterprise zones. that is why if she sits and waits patiently as you will hear in the pants -- in the chances budget and a whole series of measures to fire up the private sector and make sure that we get growth right across the country. >> about fuel duty, council taxes the most despised attacks in the country. under the last labor government, it increase mercilessly year-on- year. can the promise to tell me how many councils like bedford borough council have taken advantage of the offer made by the chancellor in last year's budget and frozen or reduced council tax? >> my hon. friend makes a good point. it is worth

best evidence of a movie having greater impact than i think you would have anticipated would be bull durham. "after all, it's a baseball movie," would be the way you look at it. there had never been a successful baseball movie before that, yeah. and who would think that a film about sports, about baseball would work. i guess pride of the yankees was the closest thing to a moneymaker, and that was, like, 1942, and here, 40 years later, a remarkable success. it's a classic, i think. and you had to fight for that role. yeah, well, nobody wanted me for that one. i wasn't on the list, but lucky for me, all those gals wouldn't audition, and ron shelton really felt he needed to see everybody together, and i paid for my flight. i was living in italy at the time, and i paid for my way over and had a good, long plane trip to talk myself out of feeling humiliated that i had to read and pay for my own trip, but the script was so good, and, um--and i just felt i had to give it a shot, you know. so i read the entire movie and then got back on a plane and then landed and got to this remote part of italy.

public meeting but i think you've nailed it congresswoman thanks so much for the great work out of durham i thank you thank you for coming on our program you know over the over the weekend on sunday they had elections in germany and german chancellor angela merkel basically lost her party which has held power for like fifty sixty years and lost to the green party why isn't germany eighty percent of the power.

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coal is no longer king around durham, but on that wedding day, they will have their queen. >> just amy face. >> reporter: does this authorize you to wear a little tiara? do you have rights now? >> nothing official. but there's nothing stopping us, i suppose. >> reporter: one of the distant cousins on kate middleton's mother's side is invited to the wedding, but she has to go by herself. she wasn't given a plus one on the invitation. the harrisons plan to have a garden party so the rest of the relatives can watch the wedding together. maybe with a theme of top hats and mining boots or something. meredith? >> she should have gotten the plus one. that's all i have to say. >> reporter: exactly. come on. >> now a check of the weather from al. >> good morning, everybody. got some nice folks here. you guys -- the first time you have been together in ten years. >> ten years. >> and my mother. >> how come so long? >> we have all just lived apart. >> "today," bringing people together. that's a nice reunion. let's check your weather and see what's going on. temperatures on the chilly side, new

two young children, a beautiful home and brad's job at a tech company here in the raleigh/durham areaiends and family say the marriage was a house of cards, crumbling beneath the strain of fights, finances and infidelity. it started as a missing jogger case in the summer of 2008. >> i just want to thank all the hundreds of volunteers that came out. >> reporter: with his wife gone, nancy cooper's husband brad pleaded for help. >> sir, do you have a flyer? >> reporter: hundreds of volunteers, thousands of flyers. it was a frantic search for the 32-year-old mother of two. brad said nancy was training for a half marathon, went out for a cc1:home. er came >> if anybody knows anything, contact the police with any information they may have. again, thank you to everyone that continues to come out and help out. >> reporter: the search ended ays later tragically whencc1: cooper's body was found partially clothed near a storm drain. it was ruled a homicide, but who was responsible. police searched the home and car. dna samples were taken from her husband. >> it was important that we secured the

we are going to be -- we have been in raleigh-durham. we've been in austin. we've got another 7 or 8 cities to go. and tomorrow, gene sperling and i will do a round table with fast company. we'll get input on specific ideas to increase the regulatory flexibility for our high growth companies. today, we want to hear from you directly, on a series of issues. particularly focused on access to capital across the lifecycle of firms. so we'll start with early stage capital. we'll talk about the ipo market and then we're also going to talk about debt for high growth companies. we particularly want to know what are the simple things? we want to know what are the simple things that we can do that can make a big difference? for actionable, simple things that you think we can put in our policy structure to make a difference? how can we build on the foundation of some things that are working like we've done, i think, with the sbic? and what is working right now? and what's not. you are entrepreneurs or you work with entrepreneurs and high growth companies every day. we w

would else agree with me that cutting public sector jobs we agree that by the durham university which shows the northeast some 50,000 jobs will go because of public sector costs. 20,000 of those will be in the private sector. >> i'm grateful to my honorable friend. i have seen that particular study. i've also seen the study of the pricewaterhousecooper on the impact on the northeast of the various deficit reduction plans that we have seen. may i congratulate without being sicofantic but he hits every nail on the head that needed to be head. growth down, growth is down. no one else knows. we ended nasier growth in the last confer. where is growth going this year? 1.7% of the year? how does that compare with germany? 3% growth? >> could the honorable gentleman just enlighten the house from any recovery from any asset-base growth has returned even a 5 or 7-year period? one thinks of the 1930s which wasn't -- there was no return for growth until the end of that decade. one thinks of japan where there was no return of growth until the beginning of this decade. how could you possibly attrib