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#230 - 31 January 2003
In January 2002, the President of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, spoke at Georgetown University. There he urged Afghan-Americans, especially young ones, to move back to Afghanistan.
#229 - 10 January 2003
Stories of some of the secrets our government keeps: of imprisonment, deportation, and spying, and how those secrets affect us.
#228 - 3 January 2003
Two stories about love, and what people mean when they use the word love. Or, looked at differently, two modern-day reinterpretations of the Frog Prince story. One concerns a pretty man falling in love with an unlikely woman. And an unlikely woman falling in love with a pretty bird.
#227 - 20 December 2002
Stories about why we should go to war versus stories of why we shouldn't.
#226 - 6 December 2002
Stories of people stuck in their own personal reruns—moments or episodes that they revisit over and over again. You can watch an animated version of Robert Krulwich's Jackie O story from this episode.
#225 - 8 November 2002
Home movies are often all the same—kids on the beach, people getting married, birthday parties—so why do we make and watch so many of them? Maybe it's because the story they show and the story they tell are different. In this show, we bring you five stories that all start with a fairly typical home movie but go on to tell a unique story.
#224 - 25 October 2002
In this week's show, we celebrate the oft-beleaguered and misrepresented middleman. "Cut out the middleman! Death to the middleman!" the angry hordes cry. Not us. We say, "Hi, middleman. Here are three splendid acts to toast your subtle virtues."
#223 - 11 October 2002
In this show we take the classifieds from one Sunday edition of the Chicago Sun-Times and one edition of the local alternative weekly Chicago Reader, and fill a program with stories that come from the ads. Through the jobs offered, the missed connections, the crap that people sell each other and the musicians' ads we get a portrait of a whole city.
#222 - 27 September 2002
Some people have a rather dark worldview that divides people into two groups: Suckers and non-suckers. We hear their stories.
#221 - 20 September 2002
Stories of people traveling under fake papers, false identities, not for power or personal gain, but for their own deeper personal reasons.
